Overclocking memory?

[Staz]

I currently have a Celeron 366@550 on an Asus P3V4X mobo with PC100 CAS-2 Micron memory, 196MB total. I want to upgrade to a P3 800 at the end of the month. My question is should I get the 800E or 800EB? The safe bet would be get the 800E and just plug it in. However, I would like to get the 800EB because I have heard that the 133MHz bus shows a noticable increase in speed. I have also heard that my memory can handle that speed if I reduce it to CAS3. I just want to make sure this would be safe and that running a 800EB with CAS3 memory would be faster than running an 800E with CAS2? Any thoughts or comments?

 

[Verruckt]

reducing the CAS setting of your memory from 2 to 3 will decrease performance. I have seen it said that a general rule of thumb is 100MHz CAS2 = 133MHz CAS3 performance wise...but don't quote me on that...

133MHz CAS2 is a definite increase in performace, though. I just do not know how much of a performance increase (if any) there is from moving from 100MHz CAS2 to 133MHz CAS3.

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[Staz]

I see your point about CAS2 PC100 = CAS3 PC133. However, my question is in reguards to the total system speed. Will I see a preformance increase going from a 800E with CAS2 PC100 memory to an 800EB with CAS3 memory? By preformance gain, I mean total system speed. Thanks.

 

[RoadRuner]

cas 2 100 does NOT equal cas 3 133 on an EV6 AMD bus, which runs at over 200mghz.

Contrary to popular belief,

running at 133 Cas3 is much faster than running at 100Cas2 with a duron or tbird.