Crucial Ballistix DDR500 or DDR400 TCCD Sammy for A8V?

[Psilonaught1]

Just got paid so am gonna order a 1Gb set of ram for my A8V/ 3200+ and am undecided about what to get

Since the A8V doesn't like the OCZ ram booster I will be limited to the 2.8v the mobo offers

[zakelwe]

I've been wondering whether the 500 stuff is actually just the 400 stuff but with slacker timings, or are they different Micron chips ?

Regards

Andy

[Psilonaught1]

I've been wondering whether the 500 stuff is actually just the 400 stuff but with slacker timings, or are they different Micron chips ?

Regards

Andy

same but speed binned no?

[TEDY]

Tccd

[Cashman]

The Crucial Ballistix DDR400 & DDR500 are identical. Crucial have simply done the timings tweaking for you (so people who dont know how can still play) ;)

Id say get the TCCD for the A64 combo, people are having great success with it.

[Psilonaught1]

Hi cash

can you recommend me a pair of TCCD sticks (512) for less than £200? - links woul dbe helpful since there is no competitor bull:banana::banana::banana::banana: on this site :banana4:

[Cashman]

GSkill seems to be really good mate... I beleive its TCCD too.

They do a Dual Channel kit thats rated:

PC4400 @ 2.5-3-3-7
PC3200 @ 2-2-2-5

Seems VERY flexible to me mate, that way you could drop your multi and bang out the FSB on the 90nm 3500 you have :) under your Mach II.

http://www.gskill.com/pc4400-2.5-3-3-7-pc3200-tccd-2-2-2-5-dc.html

There doesn't seem to be an English reseller atm tho, ive just PM'd a GSkill REP and apparently they're working on it. Im sure you could get it from europe or US tho.

Also mate, did you have to do anything different to make your 3500 Winnie be compatible with your Asus board? Im thinking of selling my 3.2EE and getting the same CPU as you, however Ive heard that some of the boards dont like the Winnie's until they have the right bios?

Cheers mate :)

[Psilonaught1]

HI mate cheers for that - looked on the Gskill site and found a Dutch supplier and order 1Gb of Gskill from there = £200 including shipping :banana:

Regarding the A8V - basically get hold of a Rev2, download the 1007 bios and rename the file to A8V.rom

Shove it on a blank floppy (dont make it bootable) and as soon as you press the power button press and hold down Alt + F2. After about 15sec the floppy will go and the bios will flash itself automatically

Reboot and its Winchester compatible!

Make sure you have ONE stick in the third slot (B3 i think its called)

[Bizarro]

well, the final question should be if the TCCDs work as crappy on the AV8 as they do on the KV8.....

on the KV8 there is no 1T after HTT240 nor does the ram work after HTT270 no matter what timings or command rate.....

the KV8 clearly sux0rz a lot with TCCDs.... no matter if GSkill, OCZ, GeiL or whatever you feed it with....

sum AV8 AND (!!!) TCCD owners should post their experiences with this combo.


i own a pair of gskills and a kv8 pro 1.1 and they both suck in combo. many other peepz in our german forum have tested the kv8 with a lot other TCCDs, all sucked :banana4:

i pray 4 you that the av8 and tccd is a better combo. plz share your experiences after you received the ram

[Psilonaught1]

that's all fine but i'm using the Asus A8V not the Abit AV8 which is a POS board lol

in anycase if the Gskill turns out to be poo with my mobo i can easily sell it in the UK - probably make a profit if i did lol

[longshot]

From my understanding the TCCD based memory doesnt play well with the VIA Based A64 boards. It runs awesome on NF3 based boards but sucks on VIA based board. I would try and find some OCZ 3200,3500, or 3700EB if you have a A8V like myself.

[Bizarro]

that's all fine but i'm using the Asus A8V not the Abit AV8 which is a POS board lol

in anycase if the Gskill turns out to be poo with my mobo i can easily sell it in the UK - probably make a profit if i did lol


normally the asus maxxes out at 240-250, check the gskill info:

ASUS A8V Overclocking
It; limits is about 250~260FSB.
If this motherboard will have more overclocking,it maybe wait newest BIOS.
VIA Chioset :ABIT AV8 easy 275MHZ or ABOVE(1T)
nFORCE3 939 dual channel :MSI NERO2 Platimn(1.35 OR 1.36).
This two BIOS can easy 300MHZ ABOVE.
754 DFI_Lanparty is very pretty Mothboard in single.
It can easy extreme to DDR600 or above.
But Is just only insert one DIMM.
If you insert TWO DIMM,it will be slow down.

looks like you'll get creamed with it :banana4:

but if u can make profit out of it its not that bad i guess :banana: :toast:

[Psilonaught1]

thanks for this guys - not too late to cancel since it's one of those sites where you buy, then they send you email asking for payment a couple of days later so I can just tell them to banana off :p

I don't think EB is available anymore - stick to my original choice of the Ballistix?

[longshot]

Do you plan on sticking with the A8V or upgrading the board to somthing other than a VIA based board in the near future?

If your gonna keep it get the Ballistix if you gonna get a NF3 or NF4 based board i would get the TCCD.