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Originally Posted by HKPolice
thats 4 sticks though, 4 sticks would be much hotter, plus that takes alot of volts. all you need to do with that is find 4 good 512mb sticks. not hard to do. however finding good 1024mb sticks is much harder.
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Originally Posted by HKPolice
thats 4 sticks though, 4 sticks would be much hotter, plus that takes alot of volts. all you need to do with that is find 4 good 512mb sticks. not hard to do. however finding good 1024mb sticks is much harder.
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Originally Posted by sabrewolf732
At T1 ?? - Sure that wasnt T2 ?? :)
This guy is a dumbass - who agrees with me?
1) All VX requires lots of volts, all high performance ram requires at least an 80mm fan over them.
2) You just said that finding 4 sticks of 'good' 512mb is easier than finding TWO sticks of 'good' 1GB. WTF are you talking about. Anyone can go and buy 1GB ballistix and anyone can go and buy 512MB PC4000VX.
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Originally Posted by WeStSiDePLaYa
yes 1tQuote:
Originally Posted by 1_2_know
what I think he means is, finding 1GB sticks that do really well are hard to find. Easier to find 512MB sticks that do real well.Quote:
Originally Posted by HKPolice
12k just wants to have a WR, thats it :rolleyes:
Yes, as 256mb modules were generally better than 512mb, 512 are better than 1024mb modules, then, it's harder to find 1024mb modules capables of the same as a 512mb module... :stick:
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Originally Posted by Juliette
What are you talking about???? Its just as good as to want to win a X600 race isnt it??? Just get of his back for a change. 12k´s results are just as interesting as others.......
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Originally Posted by HKPolice
no need to get like that. hopefully you understand now that a couple members have eloborated further for you. :)
But it's not 'hard' to find anymore. It's safe to say that most 1GB ballistix sticks will do 250 at least since Micron's quality control is top notch. Results are out, anyone can buy them and it's not like they're in short supply. With PC4000VX, all you need to do is turn up the voltage and tweak the settings a little, 260Mhz+ is guarenteed.
As for the temperature issue - I know from experience that TCCD and Micron chips get WAY hotter than UTT and BH5. I tried running Micron @ 3.2v before and the sticks got HOT even with an 80mm fan over them, whereas the same system with 3.6v and BH5 was barely warm. Same with TCCD.
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Originally Posted by ^don.k's^
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Originally Posted by HKPolice
but the sticks arent all side by side as would be needed with 4x512mb. look at 2 ram sticks in 4 slots, now look at 4 sticks in 4 slots, BIG difference in spacing.
I've been running 4x512MB of VX @ 3.6v 265Mhz for the last 3 days and I haven't had a single crash. Before I first booted into windows, I did over 20 loops of memtest to ensure stability. This is with an panaflo 80mm fan over the dimms, 3.3v rail = vdimm mod and nothing more.
Heat is NOT an issue with 4 sticks of VX.
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Originally Posted by WeStSiDePLaYa
hmm, its 250 mhz T2 thats garuanteed, lots of difference when it comes to T1 vs. T2... I cant run error free at 2,8v 2,5-4-4-7 T1 250mhz... But T2, no problem, not even at 2,6v.. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by HKPolice
- 12k
His review is gone from FM :(
Did anybody copied his settings? Now I've got ballistix 2GB and no luck so far :(
Yeah, I wanna know too for when my CPU comes in tomorrow. Errr...I mean later today.
what were your results with 2x1gb ballistix?Quote:
Originally Posted by mnemonik23
maybe he just got real lucky on his sticks.
my old ballistix pc3200 would do 250mhz 2.5-2-2-5 T1 @ 2.8v.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1_2_know
it wouldnt do to much more than 255mhz T1 though.
personally i think the micro chips are great, work well at low voltage, but you get benifits if u do have votlage.
targ
Which ballistix modules were these? Im thinking about getting the 2 x1GB kit of Crucial Tracer DDR500.
tracer and ballistix is the same..just added lights on tracer.. and 1024 is harder to find. theres only 1 company that ive seen that can push out those numbers, and thats the crucial ballistix. the redline is lookin good dont get me wrong, but theres been alot of issues with the high voltage memory like redline and ocz vx, especially if u r using a dfi mainboard. I know b/c i have some vx on rma. i have 2x1gb of the ballistix tracer on the way from new egg, $366 will be here tuesday along with my 7800gtx. will give u numbers then.
Nugzo, if youd do that; youd be my hero! Lol.
I did RMA cause my kit wasn't able to do even 235 MHz without bunch of errors in memtest - no matter what I did.Quote:
Originally Posted by a5h
But separately sticks were able to pass 1 test #5 (I didn't try more) @ 250 3-4-4-8 :)
So now I'm jumping into 4x512 redline 2T :D
EDIT: mine was regular ballistix (yellow) - not a tracer one.
That was the 3200 stuff?
yes but the difference between 1T and 2T is less when the 2T sticks are 1.5-2-2 @ 260MHz. I ran 4x512mb vx 2T and could get higher bandwidth than with those Ballistix 2x1gb 1T.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1_2_know
My Ballistix aren't terribly great but I'm sure I have a lot of tweaking to go as I can't get Trcd or Trp to be 2 clocks at any voltage or MHz. There definitely is a sweet spot of 2.7-2.8V though. Anyway, 260 3-3-3-8 is my best right now...there will be more though.
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Originally Posted by Vapor
Did you need to burn the balistix in at all, or did they run 260 right out the box ?