G.skill ARES, 32GB, 1600 10-10-10 ICs?

[papatsonis]

I recently bought once kit of these.Because of my "habit"of testing each module alone at first before merging all in the system (for piece of mind, in case one of them its problematic),I found that 2 of these could run 2133 9-11-10-30 with <1.5v, but other 2 couldn't work even at 10-11-10 at that speed (one of these 2 "bad" modules couldn't even post....). Finally I settled for 2133 10-11-11-31 1.395v for all for of them for which I'm happy, considering their price, but my question is... Is g.skill for the lower price kits, using various ics? As they seem (from their overclocking ability) to have totally different behaviour...

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[papatsonis]

Forgot to note that relaxing tRP to 11, had a major impact in stabilizing the "bad" modules

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[Leeghoofd]

Is g.skill for the lower price kits, using various ics? As they seem (from their overclocking ability) to have totally different behaviour...

Would it be a smart move to use the exactly the same IC's on the cheapo as on the high ends kits ? Noone would buy the high end kits anymore

[papatsonis]

True that, but the most logical, would be to use the same low ics on all modules, not leave me with a bad taste on mouth :p

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[Leeghoofd]

Only one way to find out and pop the heatspreader if you think they are different IC's. G.Skill only has to warrant the rated box speeds. OCing isn't ever warranted

Eg : I have had 6 GTX2 modules and all would do different speeds some barely did 2133c7-8-7 some even could do 2200 7-7-7 with the same volts... At the Tones OC Academy we worked with Corsair LP 1866C9 Vengeance kits, one kit went up to2600C10, others wouldn't even work at 2133C10

[theix]

5th - 8th digits of the Serial Number will tell you the story.

[papatsonis]

5th - 8th digits of the Serial Number will tell you the story.

All four modules differentiate in the last digits (sequent numbers). It could just be that these 2 modules are considerably inferior to other two, as Leeghoofd pointed. As testing continues i found them not tolerating at all any better tRP than 11, but... work seem to work fine (8hrs HCI memtest ~300% coverage) tightening trcd and CAS at 9-9-11-26 2133 2T 1.545volt. 1t works up to 1866, at 2133 it might need much more voltage, that im not willing to feed.

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[AVulgarPicture]

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