Lousy timings and buying Kingston

[mrjack]

I recently ran the SiSoftware Sandra Memory Bandwidth benchmark. At first everything looked pretty decent:

Then I stumbled upon this:

I have 3 sticks of 256Mb DDR SDRAM, 1 PC2100 and 2 PC3200. My mobo supports up to 333MHz aka. PC2700 DDR. The timings are pretty horrible but I have a higher clock than it "should" be. My question is, is it worth buying 1-1.5Gb of Kingston 400MHz DDR SDRAM? I can get 2 512Mb Kingston 400MHz CL2.5 for 88.20€ or 3x 512Mb for 132.30€, luckily I don't have to pay the extra 7€ which an "ordinary" customer would have to since I've been there on "work practice" from school, I could then use better timings as the memory can run at better timings at lower clock speeds. The store also have 1Gb sticks of Kingston but their rated CL3. And all Kingston memory modules have lifetime warranty, which is pretty sweet. And shouldn't it also allow me to overclock more? Since the PC2100 module does seem to be the bottleneck when it comes to OC'ing. Cause right now I'm running it at 177MHz and the "max" is 133MHz on it.

Some pics from CPU-Z

 

[mrjack]

Bump!

 

[diduknowthat]

if you have the PC2100 stick, then all your memory would be running at that speed...

 

[mrjack]

Yeah, but I was thinking about buying atleast 2x or even 3x 512Mb sticks of RAM that are higher quality than the ones I have now and the PC3200 sticks should work at better timings.

 

[fade2green514]

yep, all the memory needs to run at the same speed.. obviously being the crappiest memory's speed.
not to mention its 3 sticks so its not dual channel..
i suggest you take the crappiest piece of ram out..
or buy some new stuff.

 

[mrjack]

I could get 1Gb of RAM, 2x512Mb Kingston 400MHz DDR, but I was wondering if every motherboard is capable of dual channel? Cause I didn't get too much info from Praetors RAM 101.