justinj6 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I am planning on upgrading to 2 GB of memory. I am looking at TWINX2048-3200 AND TWINX2048-3200c2. Are they compatable with my Shuttle (see signiture)? Didn't see them on the compatability list. I see the c2 has faster timings. Does this really make much difference? Especially since the the price of the TwinX2048-3200 is $118 with rebate from Newegg while the c2 is $152 with rebate. Any insight and input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbird Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 That shuttle appears to have a Shuttle FN95 board running an Nvidia nForce3 250 Ultra chipset. I've never owned an NF3 board, but I have an NF2 that runs fine with 2x 3200LLPT 512's (2-2-2-6 timings). Biggest thing to check would be if that board has any problems with a memory module of a certain physical layout (i.e. won't support having individual chips over a certain size, can't have a certain number of chips on a side, etc). If it all looks ok there, I'd think it'll work just fine. In regards to the CAS2 versus CAS3 modules, YMMV, but I think the difference would result in a couple hundred MB/s extra on memory bandwidth benchmarks like SoftSandra. That has to end up equating to extra performance elsewhere too. Either way, the lower latency modules should be a higher quality chip to support the lower latency, and for $34, I'd go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 13, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 13, 2006 Either set of modules should run great in that system! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinj6 Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 Thanks for the input. I'll see if the pocketbook can handle the price difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 13, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 13, 2006 No problem please let us know how you make out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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