OT but how can I tell if I have BH6 or CH5 sticks. I have Kingston Hyper X PC3500 with the blue heatspreader. I here BH5 all the time but dont know how to tell whats what.
usually BH5 will take 2-2-2-5 at VERY high speeds and is voltage friendly, ie, feed it 3.2v and it keeps going higher.
CH5 normally likes 2-2-3-6 but will run 2-2-2-5 depending on the vendor/spd programming. NOT as voltage friendly, and will not run as high speeds as BH5. There's a rumour I've never seen any proof of, that CH5 chips have onboard voltage regulation and feeding them anything more than 2.8 is pointless. Dunno, that's what I read somewhere, no substantiation on that one.
In terms of identifying your specific modules, you can prolly find a guide that tells you which rev. of HX has which chips OR you can peel off your heatspreaders and look at the memory chips, the coding will be on them.
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Sure. Did you ever get those 680's btw?
CH5 normally likes 2-2-3-6 but will run 2-2-2-5 depending on the vendor/spd programming. NOT as voltage friendly, and will not run as high speeds as BH5. There's a rumour I've never seen any proof of, that CH5 chips have onboard voltage regulation and feeding them anything more than 2.8 is pointless. Dunno, that's what I read somewhere, no substantiation on that one.
In terms of identifying your specific modules, you can prolly find a guide that tells you which rev. of HX has which chips OR you can peel off your heatspreaders and look at the memory chips, the coding will be on them.