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RAM for G5... CL 2.5 or CL 3. Any advantage to either?

neonart

neonart

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Sep 4, 2002
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Near a Mac since 1993.
I though that CL2.5 would be better than CL3 in my G5 and found 1GB of Samsung CL2.5 at a local shop. Im now having a hard time getting the same stuff. (Barefeats got some real uncertain results when they tried to test different RAM speeds. I dont want to base my choice on their tests.)

What do you guys think?

Should I try to find CL2.5 to match what I have, get rid of it and go to all CL3, or just mismatch CL2.5 and CL3?

If you have any technical insight about this it would be great!
 
stoid

stoid

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Feb 17, 2002
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So long, and thanks for all the fish!
CL is Command Latency. A CL rating is the number of clock cycles the RAM takes to return information requested by the computer. I don't know what mismatched CL RAM would do if anything.

Basically though, the lower the CL, the better!
 
Sun Baked

Sun Baked

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May 19, 2002
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Memory is switched, the Memory Controller is only looking at a pair of DIMMs at a time.
 
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