2GB! Xtreme Divider! Not so Xtreme Bandwidth!

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Originally Posted by brandinb

buy ballistix 1gb kit then you are guaranteed 250mhz or your money back from them 30day

also most of those kits do 2.5-2-2 at 250mhz so i would seriously consider that and keeping 1t timing over 2t timing and 4x512 of utt stuffs

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Huh? Are you talking about getting 2 1gig sticks from Crucial? The only 1gig sticks Ballistix lists does not come in a 2gig kit. The only Ballistix 1gig stick that Crucial lists is Crucial part number BL12864Z503 which has timings of 3-4-4-8 and priced at almost $200 a stick. Guaranteed PC4000 speed would be nice but at that price I'd rather save the money for my next video card. Still they would be nice to test ...

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Originally Posted by tjj

How about that? This was posted @ XS some time ago. I have no idea by whome, don't quite remember. Would really like to have a word with that gentleman.. :D

Personally, i've ordered 2 kits of TwinMOS Twister BH-5 1GB (2x512MB). IC / Winbond UTT BH-5. I'll also hook up a 25cfm 80mm FAN right on the 4 DIMM slots, since all of them will get populated. The whole shabang arrives next week, we'll post results.
3200+ 'Venice' + PowerStream 520 + DFI nF4

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That picture looks familiar ... but I can't find the original post after searching for quite a while. Awesome speed on those sticks.

Looking forward to seeing your results with those new parts. I just ordered another
520W PowerStream for $102.50 +tax/shipping =$121. Warm deal, great PSU.

I have some ocz perf 3500 sticks they only like to run 3-3-3-7 but they clock upto 490 stable and get alittle over 7000mbs/se in everest. I don't think the looser timings make that big of difference with the 1 gig sticks they seem to bench pretty well compared to most 512's runnings at 2 2 2 5. I was going to try and get the ocz plat 2 gig kit but I saw a review of some 2 3 2 5 sticks and they only did 436 with 3 4 4 8 timings so I think I'll stay far away from them for now.

I looked at the OCZ PC-3500 (OCZ4332048PFDC-K) but balked at the price of
$359 from Monarch. Your results look great though. Would like to get some details on the HTT, dividers and multis used to go 2.7ghz on air. Would also like anyone running 2gigs to answer my informal poll question: Which application or game made you decide to run 2gigs of memory?

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Originally Posted by gundamit

Huh? Are you talking about getting 2 1gig sticks from Crucial? The only 1gig sticks Ballistix lists does not come in a 2gig kit.

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Crucial doesn't sell dual channel kits. Instead, they promise that if you order two of the same part number at a time, they will work in dual channel mode. I haven't heard about anyone having any problems with Crucial in DC, so either their quality control is better than the rest of the industry, or the dual channel kits are more about marketing than engineering.

Just starting to play with my 4 TMSP BH UTT sticks now. They're all from week 0509.
Hopefully I'll get a little farther than this.

i can't wait to test my batch out.. :P

though i do need a PCI-e gfx card.. hmm,
i wouldn't really want to run xp.64 @ a 32MB passively cooled PCI Riva TNT M64 .. :D:D

X850XT is on the way from UK..

nice work :)

... before the system froze while playing EQ2. Prior to that I only did five passes on memtest #5 at 321x9 3:4 divider for 240 memory speed with 3.2v. Took a longer run at memtest #5 and errors started popping up.

I decided to do a real burn-in and forget about gaming today. Here are the early results.
http://img297.echo.cx/img297/2962/burnintest5wx.jpg
I think its working because the first 200 passes came up with 28 errors and the second 200 passes gave only 10. I'd like to get to 243 rock stable so I can compare the bandwidth and SuperPi 32M scores with the 2.92ghz run I made with the 2x1024. Preliminary testing showed about 6800 on bandwidth but about the same SuperPi.

Over 500 passes with no errors on the last 150+ passes. Time to bump it up to 242. :)
http://img285.echo.cx/img285/1944/bu...d240run1zo.jpg

somewhat an update..

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Originally Posted by josanai

I have posted this before. I am currently running 245 MHz w/2-2-2-10-2T timings @ 3.3 volts w/ 4 * 512 Mushkin Blue. This is with a crappy winny that only gets ~ 2.2 GHz (can't wait for a venice or san diego, then maybe 1T and ~ 2.7 - 2.8 GHz). I get ~ 4100 unbuffered w/sandra and ~ 2800 MB/s in Memtest. I did have it up to 249 MHz @ 3.4 volts, but would rather use 3.3 volts. There is improvement using 2 GB of memory. Everything seems more smooth. I am happy with the setup. This is on the DFI UltraD, and I was even running this with a TTGI/Super Flower 550 Watt 20 pin PSU, although I did get a Seasonic S12 500 Watt. I didn't notice any improvement with it though, but it should do well when I get an ATi AMR setup with an AMD dual core.

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The numbers that josanai has listed looked pretty good but I'm wondering if his Winnie was completely to blame for the low OC on the CPU. Seems like my rig with the 4x512 is having some problems hitting the same CPU speed I got with the 2x1024. I'm getting some freezing problems in EQ2 as low as 2.8ghz when the memory is backed down to 234. :confused:

Something new I've seen in memtest at 243 is the sytem freezing right before it completes a loop of test #5. Does any one know what this might be a symptom of? Got the same thing even when I bumped it up to 3.3v.

After my next burn-in session (242 at 3.2v) I think I'll try CAS 2.5 to see if its more stable.

Making a little progress now, so I'm going to post some results. Still too early to tell where things will end up. This is on the 310 bios all auto except for CAS and DDS=8 DDDS=4.

http://img297.echo.cx/img297/3797/24...923362t1qj.jpg

Still too early to tell where this is going. :D

I tried with combination of Gskill LA and Mushkin Blue/utt @ 240 / 2-2-2-5 and 3.1V with UltraD and 2.17 bios...

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Originally Posted by Dumo

I tried with combination of Gskill LA and Mushkin Blue/utt @ 240 / 2-2-2-5 and 3.1V with UltraD and 2.17 bios...

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Here's the link to your thread
TCCD440 and BH5 combo @ 4x512 Bookmarked for Tweaker settings. Thanks. :D

BTW - Awesome clocks on your FX with 4x512mb. Thats got to be a WR for AMD CPU speed with 2gig memory, yes?

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Originally Posted by gundamit

BTW - Awesome clocks on your FX with 4x512mb. Thats got to be a WR for AMD CPU speed with 2gig memory, yes?

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Thanks gundamit :toast: I dunno, never check it. Heres with 55 san diego and bios 414-3...still have to run with 2T :( ..default settings on a64 tweaker
http://img22.echo.cx/img22/5594/screenshot0382ac.jpg

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Originally Posted by gundamit

Why Transcend? Because like me, they are cheap. ;) Also, reading that they used Samsung UCCC, piqued my curiosity.

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Same chips in the ocz ddr500 2 gig sets.

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Originally Posted by Otter

Maybe not. You either loosened the timings or you've got the 3-3-3 "signature" series RAM. The timings matter because low latency is more important for an A64 than high bandwidth. 2-3-2 @200 will probably beat 3-3-3 @235 if the CPU is an A64.

With a P4, of course, it's the other way around. Timings don't matter much because latency is going to be high anyway, but bandwidth is very important.

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PDP 2 gig sets come in either 3 3 3 timings or 2 3 2 timings. they can do anywhere from 210 - 240, most have been getting on avg 230 HTT with the 2 3 2 sets. I agree with soulburner, u just had some bad luck or u just need to tweak your ram a bit more. My sticks can run 216htt no sweat at 2 3 2 5, 2.5 3 2 5 = 229 htt and 3 3 3 did not help me at all. U see, merely luck of the draw.