First time build - £800

Vision · 22 Jun 2010 at 19:03

Dont want the case to be too flashy so think I'll stick with the Antec. Only reason I chose the ram was because it looked good and had low timings.

Is there any benefit from low timings for gaming/browsing?

stulid · 22 Jun 2010 at 19:07

AMD chips do like lower timings, so with that in mind+your happy with the case(which is good) then go for it

Vision · 22 Jun 2010 at 20:53

Thanks very much for the help stulid

Do you know anything about the warranties on the AMD cpu's? Will using an aftermarket cooler void it? I asked about it in the cpu section but didnt get any helpful replies

stulid · 22 Jun 2010 at 20:56

there's absolutely no way of knowing if you have used a different cooler.

Lleot · 22 Jun 2010 at 23:23

Lower timings will make very very very little difference.

wilko49 · 23 Jun 2010 at 01:23

about the 1600 MHz - The RAM almost certainly has an XMP, which you can enable from the BIOS, that will change the BCLK to 160 and drop the CPU multiplier.

coupe69 · 23 Jun 2010 at 02:36

Lleot said:
Lower timings will make very very very little difference.

This, seriously you'd never know the difference, don't be fooled by the manafacturers hype.

Vision · 23 Jun 2010 at 10:57

Ok stulid, thanks to the others aswell.

stulid · 23 Jun 2010 at 18:22

Lleot said:
Lower timings will make very very very little difference.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-ii-ddr3,2319-8.html