GEIL autopsy

[charlie]

The other day I kiled a stick of GEIL PC3700 Ultra Plat... by crushing a resistor taking the HS off, oopss.
Upon closer examination I saw there was a "paint" on the modules... hmmmm...
So i scraped the paint off and "VOILA" !!!!!!!!!!!
I found some strange module inside :D
it reads

GOLD
8LC32M08TG6


Looks like GEIL was speed binning SOMEONES (???) 6nS chips and repainting, errrr... rebadging them GL3LC32G88TG-5A

Anyone know what a "gold" module is??

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[Slickthellama]

that is so like horny to do something like this. But what can I say, my horny PC4300 does DDR588 so i dont care what modules it has.

[STEvil]

If its like the small brown object in the upper left of that pic you can just replace it, charlie.

[charlie]

Stevil,
With what? And HOW???? :D

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[STEvil]

another one of similar size and color, and a soldering iron.

Even a larger one would be fine.

[macci]

Looks like BH6/5 (see the two dots on the chip).

[STEvil]

My Trancend PC2700 with 0348 BH-6's doesnt have those dots, its just got one dot in the lower left of the chip.

Cant remember if my XMS3202C2 1.1's have the two dots or not now...

[The Stilt]

Originally posted by macci
Looks like BH6/5 (see the two dots on the chip).

More likely CH-5 chips than BH-5 or BH-6, because I havent heard GEIL using BH series chips in their sticks :confused:

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

I heard something about some Geil Ultra Platinum PC3500 carried BH-5?

[saaya]

looks like bh5 wich explains the nice latencies and clocks

[Vlad Draculea]

:slobber: you could eat it, it is not bh5 but you might get superpowers

[Boogotop]

my friend have 1 year old Geil 3500 Ultra Plat who made 230 @ 2/2/2/5 @ 2.8v....probably BH-5 or CH-5

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

Originally posted by Boogotop
my friend have 1 year old Geil 3500 Ultra Plat who made 230 @ 2/2/2/5 @ 2.8v....probably BH-5 or CH-5


It is either BH-5 or BH-6;)

[Sidebinder]

I didn't know geil used winbond chips, why did they use those on the ultra plat pc3700 and say they had 7-3-3-2.5 timings?

[charlie]

Mine were notoriously bad with 2-2-2-5...
They liked 2-3-2-5 up to about 237 @ 2.8V
On a 845PE board they hit 250 @ 2.5-3-3-7

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[IvanAndreevich]

STEvil and Vlad Draculea are right, Charlie. Just replace it with a similar element and chances are it will work like a charm!

And from the way your memory doesn't like the "2" timing, I would say that this is a Winbond chip like my KHX3500 has..