Walton Chaintech Apogee GT 1866 CL9 1.5V Testing!

[BenchZowner]

The memory eating bug received another interesting DDR3 Triple Channel memory kit today ( thanks Olivia & Steven ! ), the Apogee GT DDR3-1866 CL9 1.5V 6GB memory kit from Walton Chaintech.
I'm pretty sure that I'll find some Elpida Hyper chips when I open them up, but that will have to wait a bit ( gotta get a hair dryer ).
I'm planning to try out a few 5870s tomorrow on dry ice to see what they can do, and the 3 red slots on my eVGA X58 Classified are more than happy to offer a nice accommodation to the new girlies in town

Alright, I'll leave you with a... cr*ppy picture that I shot with my HTC Touch HD in a badly... lighted room for now and I'll come back later on today with a few quick tests.

If everything goes as planned I shall have a new DDR3 memory roundup on the site soon [ come on my beloved manufacturers feed the memory eating bug please! ]

[saaya]

hey bill, i always wondered... whats with the "walton" chaintech?
werent they just called chaintech at some point?
who is walton?

looking forward to some results

[BenchZowner]

hey bill, i always wondered... whats with the "walton" chaintech?
werent they just called chaintech at some point?
who is walton?

looking forward to some results

Yeah you remember everything correctly.
They used to be called just "Chaintech" since the Pentium era.
I don't know where the Walton came from, but I can ask.
I imagine it's from a merge or something like that.
Fortunately it was Walton and not Dalton, can you imagine "Dalton Chaintech" ?

As for the chips... my gut seems to be wrong this time ( well, partially since I didn't test them at all before making a guess ).
I just opened them, and this is what I saw:



And here's a side to side comparison with some MGH-E hypers:



Any ideas guys ?

[proxis]

the dot in bottom left corner usually suggests Elpida or Micron. Based on chips we see on other brands - they're eithe BBSE or D9KPT

glad to see that Walton decided not to fool everyone by putting Hypers in samples kit and BBSE/KPT in retail

[Bei Fei]

Kinda looks like the new Samsung chips. 50nm parts?

[saaya]

mhhh from the die marker and position of the batch/product code... and the font... my guess is... samsung?
could be micron as well though...

[eva2000]

may ask for their RRP Price - expensive = hyper hehe

or the same stuff that Gskill ECO modules use ?

[BenchZowner]

Gonna ask my contact, 'cause I'm curious and don't want to fry them

[hiwa]

[ci2kla]

A3G-A again....PSC?

Kinda same as G.Skill 2200C7's

[BenchZowner]

A3G-A again....PSC?

Kinda same as G.Skill 2200C7's

Still waiting for W. Chaintech's reply.
Are you 100% sure about the chips ?
Are they any good ?

[Mescalamba]

I tought I saw same chips somewhere.. just cant remember where.

[ci2kla]

Still waiting for W. Chaintech's reply.
Are you 100% sure about the chips ?
Are they any good ?

http://img46.imageshack.us/i/pb290056.jpg/

S/N is very similar.

[BenchZowner]

http://img46.imageshack.us/i/pb290056.jpg/

S/N is very similar.

Oh, those seem to be the same chips or a similar revision.
Gonna install them on the classified tomorrow to check them out

[ci2kla]

Oh, those seem to be the same chips or a similar revision.
Gonna install them on the classified tomorrow to check them out

Good luck to you.
BTW maybe G.Skill 2200C7 has higher bin I don't know...
but this kit can do 7-9-7-24 2000Mhz 1T using ultra low voltage (1.45v) and pass all tests easily. You can give it a shot~
And, Setting MCH Strap to 1600Mhz should allow 2:10 multi to work properly~ FYI

[Xtreme Addict]

It's Powerchip produced in Elpida's technology, it is very likely that they are BBSE

[overclocking101]

yeah definately not D9KPT

[Zeus]

I can't wait to see what numbers these sticks will put up, especially with tight timings like 6-6-6.

[BenchZowner]

Good luck to you.
BTW maybe G.Skill 2200C7 has higher bin I don't know...
but this kit can do 7-9-7-24 2000Mhz 1T using ultra low voltage (1.45v) and pass all tests easily. You can give it a shot~
And, Setting MCH Strap to 1600Mhz should allow 2:10 multi to work properly~ FYI

Thanks for the info man
I appreciate the "hot start" info

I'll be back soon

[WaterFlex]

I like the story on the package

[Zeus]

Any results yet Bench?

[BenchZowner]

Awaiting my new Classified.
Should be here tomorrow.

[BenchZowner]

Just started, running a few quick tests while watching hiwa bench live


1.56Vdimm looks ok for that frequency.

[BenchZowner]

Finally in full throttle to get the review done, I decided to start with some initial/basic overclocking tests:

CAS Latency ( tCL ) testing:
tCL 6 - DDR3-1765 +/- 10-15MHz
tCL 7 - DDR3-2070 +/- 10-15MHz

RAS to CAS Delay ( tRCD ) testing:
tRCD 6 - DDR3-1385 +/- 10-15MHz
tRCD 7 - DDR3-1530 +/- 10-15MHz
tRCD 8 - DDR3-1815 +/- 10-15MHz
tRCD 9 - DDR3-2050 +/- 10-15MHz

RAS Precharge ( tRP ) testing:
tRP 5 - DDR3-1620 +/- 10-15MHz
tRP 6 - DDR3-2005 +/- 10-15MHz
tRP 7 - DDR3-2090 +/- 10-15MHz

[saaya]

797 sounds like a perfect match timing wise...