Found some GOOD ram !!!
Missileman
Orlando, Florida Icrontian
Just to let you all know. I got a pair of these in today : http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-220-033&depa=0 (Patriot Dual Channel Kit 184-Pin 1GB(512MB x 2) DDR PC-3200 w/ XBL Technology)
Been hearing real good things about Patriot memory. I tried another set of 3200 and it was solid and OC mildly without excess voltage.
This stuff is really hot. I just installed it an hour ago. It's running 2-2-2-5-1T with agressive timings enabled on my NEO2 at stock 2.6 Vdc and at 220 Mhz already.
It has the famous Samsung TCCD chips that OC almost off scale. The literature with this stuff claims it can go from 3200 to 5300 just by shifting the timings from 2-2-2-5 to 3-3-3-7. May play with that later, but this is the best I've had in a long time and you can't beat the price for 1GB.
And if it matters it's American made (of foreign parts of course)
The Sandra Bench is from running it at 210FSB with all AV,AS stuff running and IE so it might be a bit lower than real
Been hearing real good things about Patriot memory. I tried another set of 3200 and it was solid and OC mildly without excess voltage.
This stuff is really hot. I just installed it an hour ago. It's running 2-2-2-5-1T with agressive timings enabled on my NEO2 at stock 2.6 Vdc and at 220 Mhz already.
It has the famous Samsung TCCD chips that OC almost off scale. The literature with this stuff claims it can go from 3200 to 5300 just by shifting the timings from 2-2-2-5 to 3-3-3-7. May play with that later, but this is the best I've had in a long time and you can't beat the price for 1GB.
And if it matters it's American made (of foreign parts of course)
The Sandra Bench is from running it at 210FSB with all AV,AS stuff running and IE so it might be a bit lower than real
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one question, how well do they do on nForce 2 systems??
At 235 Now and still running Prime in the background. Probably gonna have to take it to 2.5-2-2-5 and turn aggressive off to get 250 though.
Still looking good at this point.
Set them to 2.5,3,3,7 and use a low multi. 260 (at least) will work as long as your cpu can do it
TCCD's won't do 2,5 ,2,2 timings over 230 i'm afraid. What cpu and what stepping on the cpu do you have?
I dusted off my old Mushkin BH5 here for a little dual channel action. Still running prime.
I have an A64 3500 Newcastle. I was just seeing how high I could get the sims to go, I can only OC to 215 for normal usage since I use 2 RAID-0's and the 1&2 SATA's don't lock they corrupt above 218 or so.
I just thought these were a really good buy for $218 bucks for a dual channel GB of TCCD. I had some of the regular 3200 and it was good solid memory too so when I saw that deal on this set I just had to give em a try. I think anybody looking for fast low latentcy RAM would love these sticks.
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductdesc.asp?description=20-146-219&depa=1
Mackanz... yeah, that's the only set of insanely expensive RAM I've bought... That stuff was something like $200 or $250, yeah... in fact, lemme go check... newegg still has the packing list on file...
With good quality ram from a manufacturer with a good and reliable support who also isn't anal when it comes to rma, it's worth the price in my opinion. I can only speak of OCZ as i haven't tried the other companies support before, but OCZ rocks. Even internationally. I had a 2 week turnaround for a pair i rma'd which is considered VERY fast for being faroffistan where i live. They also give you the option to upgrade to a newer model or at least that is in the same pricerange if you ask nicely.
Now, let's see what those sticks can do. Set the ram to 7,3,3 cas 2.5 and use 2.8 volts. Lower the cpu's multi to 6. I have a few settings that you can use with the A64 Tweaker to get you some serious memory speed. We will also test that memorycontroller on that cpu. Do you have some spare time for a little overclocking action?
My A64 is watercooled too so we can give em hell
I thought my KV8-Pro was bad as I couldn't do over 220mhz Mem before......
I'm hoping to get to OC tomorrow. 3 kids, 2 grand kids and a 3rd due in a couple of weeks along with Xmas has kinda got me tied in a knot at the moment
I can't wait to shake em down.
Interesting, I haven't been keeping up like I used to.
How does TCCD fare on i875 chipsets?
I can still get a good amount if I sold my BH5, I might just sell it and get some of this TCCD and then upgrade to s939 and NF3/4 later when I have more $$. That is, if the TCCD works well with my current mobo.
I'm not arguing... I just don't think it's all THAT bad... I need to stick it in the NF7-S and see how high it'll actually go at those timings... It may have actually hit 250 with those timings in my P4 system, but I can't remember for sure and I don't feel like booting it to look.
As to the I875P chipsets. Most people find that it works well, but the timings have to be changed down to 3-4-4-8. This is not do to the RAM, but because the chipset design itself does not generally like low latentcy ram although disabling the PAT let's it run fairly well.
That stuff good? How well does the DDR500 TCCD (above) run at say DDR460? Can the timings be tightened with lower FSB?
GSkill is supposed to be good stuff and they give multiple ratings on their ram. The sticks you linked to at Newegg are these and their site rates them at 2.5-4-4-8 at ddr550 speed, so at ddr460 I would imagine they would be good for timings between that and their ddr400 rating of 2-2-2-5, both at 1T command rate.