OK, so why do people buy the PC3200 ZX when they know they must reach PC4000 speeds to be happy, when there is the specified PC4000 HZ set?
I really think you are not fair to G.Skill here.
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OK, so why do people buy the PC3200 ZX when they know they must reach PC4000 speeds to be happy, when there is the specified PC4000 HZ set?
I really think you are not fair to G.Skill here.
Reason I'm sending back is because they won't let me run a divider under 150 or 166, which means my chip is capped at 2400 when it'll do 3ghz with ease. If I could get it to run a 133 divider I'd be extremly happy. I just want 2-3-2-5 @ 200 out of it using a divider.
reason why people by the pc3200 is because we expect to see around 240+ when we have techs from the company posting 270+ to show what they can do, unfortunately the retails are telling another story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Cracauer
I am buying G.Skill ddr500's so that is a break for G.Skill lol
Anyone think running 2T would make it be able to boot using a lower divider? If so I might just open my RMA box and try it out.
Have anyone of you guys tried to start off without using any dividers at all? In many cases, getting stable with memory divider used, requires some fine tuning, even to get system to POST. Those that haven't tried that yet, do so. You might be making it harder for yourself that it might really seem.
Just set voltage to 2.7v, use 5-2-3-3.0-1T, TREF=AUTO and go from there. G.Skill ZX does not seem to gain anything from raising voltage above 2.9v. Bump voltage slowly when neccesary and also try TRTW=3 if you experience sudden wall.
yep tried all that. no divider cpu multi 10X 9X 8x still no boot over 225 no matter what. 222 is max prime stable with or without a divider regardless of timings, voltage or dram settings or bios. or cpu since I tested on my diego and a venice in another DFI.
Same here with 4200+ Manchester and 3800+ Toledo.
-pickles
Can anyone with problems run a 300x9 with a 133 divider?
I can run any divider I want as long as the memory ends up 222 or less lol
I'm running 267X10 with 166 divider which gives me 222 and its totally stable.
mine's running fine at 250 with the settings from the last page. havent tried any higher yet, but FEAR runs so smooth now.
I just did a quick (I repeat, quick :D) check on multis x8, x9, x10 and x11 and in all those instances, at div140 and div133 system hangs and the end of POST at 300HTT... It's fine @ div166 and div180... It could be possibly fixed through tweaking few settings in BIOS, but I don't feel like playing with it now :p: Good show is on TV :DQuote:
Originally Posted by IceMole
Exactly my problem :dammit: It would to go run memtest and give me a black screen with "Unexpected Inturrupt - Halting"
These rams I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy. Massive problems with dividers (thanks for testing, G.S.Technician), incredible lousy to oc. I couldn't believe the rumours before, but these rams are most likely odious Hynix.
Thanks for this review. Lessons learned.
Do you actually have that kit? Or you just saying that for some reason?Quote:
Originally Posted by romeon
Dividers often require some tweaking to work the way they should. Right off the bat, I can use div180, 166 and 150. I'm gonna try div140 and 133 again tonight, with some more "heart" put into it :)
What lesson would that be? That you don't know how to overclock or that you have the patience of a crack addict? You post was as useless as Paris Hilton being on a debate team.Quote:
Originally Posted by romeon
Well i love mine and would recommend them to my best friend.
Update to my last night's answer to this Q:I'm just now running 32M with div133 @ 311x9=2808MHz DDR400 5-2-3-3.0-1T 2.7v. I will update this post with photos and screenshot in about 15 mins ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IceMole
I'm on phase change and my SD 3700+ is a bit cold-bugged which does not allow me to go much further on HTT that 310-315 at any multiplier (CPU is benchable up to 3.4GHz and 2GBZX to 273MHz, though). So I can't try div133 DDR500...
Update: Voila! I had a photo taken durin 12th pass, but accidentally deleted wrong one of the CF card :(
Problems with dividers are not exactly and always caused by memory. It's up to few visits to BIOS and tweaking...
Hi guys, i would want to let you know that last week i was very very busy. our warehouse got break in and lost a lot of things. i am unable to do all the pm reply, emails, and rma. Everything will back on track next week i hope.
2GBZX i would say 90% of them can do very good on OC but it is not "rated" speed. if every kit can does 500, we will rated @ DDR500? i hope everyone understand it.
These stix were my first G.Skill purchase and although I was dissapointed in there clocking potential, they are good stix and after all they are only pc3200. I just think they need to not promote these as overclocking stix, seems like 50/50 at best, which is a crappy ratio of you wanna advertise these as overclocking ram.
My G.Skill ddr500's are on the way so I shall have my 2gigs at 250 or better anyway. plus the black heatspreaders on these are way nicer looking :p:
as long as your ddr500 2gig kit does 500 then we're square :)Quote:
Originally Posted by G.S Technician
I dont know about your 90% guesstimate since almost everyone here with them says they dont OC well :fact:
I just wanted to add another example of dividers working just fine ( at least with the kit and CPU I have :p: ).
This time it's 32M with div150 @ 320x9=2906MHz DDR484 5-2-3-3.0-1T 2.7v. BIOS I'm using is 623-3.
And yeah, just like G.S. Technician says... Look at the price of that kit and understand why it's rated @ PC3200. There are 2GB kits rated @ PC4000 but cost of speed grading makes them often much more expensive. It's simple when money is not a factor. But If one is on a very tight budget then things get a bit more frustrating...
Here are my results
2hr prime / 32M superpi
I copied the bios settings from the original post exactly on my ultra-d, and have got DDR500 easy.
It was the cheapest 2GB kit I could find in australia so I'm very happy with how it performs!
:)
yeah I would ahve been thrilled if mine did 250, I swapped em for the ddr500's
Did you have to pay a 15% restock fee on newegg too?
Some sticks don't seem to be doing as good as others all of a sudden... :(
I question blaming the RAM directly for dividers not working that just doesn't make sense.