Gauss
02-11-2005, 12:05 PM
Hey guys, I have a friend who bought some Corsair xms3500 v1.1 sticks to a guy, well, that's what these sticks seems to be, corsair 3500.
Let's see, I attached a pic, sorry, it's a phone pic. The code in both sticks is:
CMX256A-3500C2PT
XMS3502v1.1
024436
I also attached a cpu-z and everest screenshots. As it can be seen, cpu-z doesn't recognize model in the second module, nor everest, everest didn't even recognize something about the second module. SPD timmings can also be seen in the everest screenshot.
The guy who guy who sold these modules says they are BH-5 but I don't think so. I remember xms3500 with bh-5 chips to have heatspreaders with blue and silver colors, not the classic silver heatspreader. I also owned a pair of corsair twinx sticks xms3200 2-2-2-6 with bh-5/bh-6 chips that when set to 166 MHz, the SPD timmings were of 2-2-2-4. These "BH-5" sticks have SPD timmings of 2-4-3-7 when set to 166 MHz.
The performance of these sticks suck, they are not stable in any way at 200 MHz with 2-2-2-6 not even using 2.7v. Memtest produces errors in an nforce2 board, as well as with an A64.
Something curious, the second module that doesn't have a model recognized by cpu-z doesn't allow the system to boot when used alone, the other stick does allow booting when used alone. Also, the module with model recognized should be used in slot1 in the A64 as well in the nforce2 board in slot3 to make both modules to work.
Also, these modules won't boot at 200 MHz in an A64 (MSI K8N Neo2), they only boot at 166 MHz no matter what (divider set, fsb changed up from 200 MHz). When set to 200 MHz using A64 tweaker the performance suck, Super-Pi give a message error or the systems crash unless very loose timmings are used (2.5-4-4-8 as everest says).
What do you guys think? Are thsese authentic corsair modules? They seem of course, but I think it's not a production with BH-5, maybe it's a production with the first generation of BH-5 that were used for PC2700 memory the first time.
Guys, please answer, the guy who sold these modules cannot be left just like that.
Let's see, I attached a pic, sorry, it's a phone pic. The code in both sticks is:
CMX256A-3500C2PT
XMS3502v1.1
024436
I also attached a cpu-z and everest screenshots. As it can be seen, cpu-z doesn't recognize model in the second module, nor everest, everest didn't even recognize something about the second module. SPD timmings can also be seen in the everest screenshot.
The guy who guy who sold these modules says they are BH-5 but I don't think so. I remember xms3500 with bh-5 chips to have heatspreaders with blue and silver colors, not the classic silver heatspreader. I also owned a pair of corsair twinx sticks xms3200 2-2-2-6 with bh-5/bh-6 chips that when set to 166 MHz, the SPD timmings were of 2-2-2-4. These "BH-5" sticks have SPD timmings of 2-4-3-7 when set to 166 MHz.
The performance of these sticks suck, they are not stable in any way at 200 MHz with 2-2-2-6 not even using 2.7v. Memtest produces errors in an nforce2 board, as well as with an A64.
Something curious, the second module that doesn't have a model recognized by cpu-z doesn't allow the system to boot when used alone, the other stick does allow booting when used alone. Also, the module with model recognized should be used in slot1 in the A64 as well in the nforce2 board in slot3 to make both modules to work.
Also, these modules won't boot at 200 MHz in an A64 (MSI K8N Neo2), they only boot at 166 MHz no matter what (divider set, fsb changed up from 200 MHz). When set to 200 MHz using A64 tweaker the performance suck, Super-Pi give a message error or the systems crash unless very loose timmings are used (2.5-4-4-8 as everest says).
What do you guys think? Are thsese authentic corsair modules? They seem of course, but I think it's not a production with BH-5, maybe it's a production with the first generation of BH-5 that were used for PC2700 memory the first time.
Guys, please answer, the guy who sold these modules cannot be left just like that.