Test Report: G.SKILL PC4800 FF 1GB 2.5-4-4-8 1T

[kakaroto]

G.SKILL newest TCCD rated at DDR600 2.5-4-4-8 1T.
Based on Samsung TCCD memory.





Testrig

- Athlon 64 3500+ Clawhammer / Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester
- DFI nF4 Ultra-D (bios 414-1 Oskar Wu)
- GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-E
- Tagan 480W-U22
- Vapochill LS



Stock test

Doing easy at 2.6v



DDR600 2.5-3-3-7 1T easy going







only 2.7V



Before use this ram, their are some important things to know:

- Make sure you have a descent memorycontroller and motherboard.
(DFI NF4 series is recommended)

- When overclocking, be careful of using high voltages. This one does not like high voltages.

- 1:1 running to get best performance of this RAM

- Make sure you use Oskar Wu TCCD optimized BIOS for best stability and performance

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

Looks really nice! G-Skill did it again!

Btw im looking forward to see ur next article

[Dumo]

Bios 2.17 working good with my LA. Any newer bios based on 2.17?

[althes]

Excellent ram, tccd really is some good memory.
ANy benches to report.

[bachus_anonym]

What I would really love to see is at least 500% of "Memtest for Windows" @ DDR600 7-3-3-2.5-1T with those.

If they pass it without any errors, then I will be absolutely impressed

[metro.cl]

can you push them further??

2.7v is low i know that tccd sweet spot is around 2.9v

[EMC2]

Hmmm... a 32M Pi run would be interesting too, more so if the CPU was on air. And maybe a run with IdleCycle = 256.

[chunkylover77]

When is this stuff coming to the states.

[CD 1986]

What I would really love to see is at least 500% of "Memtest for Windows" @ DDR600 7-3-3-2.5-1T with those.

Slightly off-topic, but is Windows MemTest a better test of stability than it's DOS-based counter-part? I've been using it to test the memory in my sig (stable at 280mhz, with no errors after 600%), but was thinking of using the DOS memtest...or should i not bother if it passes in windows?

[kakaroto]

When is this stuff coming to the states.

The exact date I dont know. I will ask OPB when this RAM will be released.

[PicaXuu]

Take a look at what it says here:

As the fine tune process is very complicated and arduous, we only provide 50 sets - G.Skill F1-4800DSU2-1GBFF plus DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D to worldwide overclockers.

[GazC]

It's a pity that my G.skill doesn't work as well as that on the DFI NF4 . It needs over 3 volts to be semi stable.

[bachus_anonym]

Slightly off-topic, but is Windows MemTest a better test of stability than it's DOS-based counter-part? I've been using it to test the memory in my sig (stable at 280mhz, with no errors after 600%), but was thinking of using the DOS memtest...or should i not bother if it passes in windows?

"DOS memtest" in my opinion cannot be trusted at all as far as overall stability goes. Only because memory sticks are "error-free" according to "DOS Memtest" means nothing. It's a good tool to only determine faulty sticks but not "Windows stability". For overall memory stability in Windows enviroment, different tool is needed. That's where "Memtest for Windows" and Prime95 come into action.
If you can run "Memtest for Windows" for at least 3-6hrs then from my experience you are as stable as it comes

[gundamit]

"DOS memtest" in my opinion cannot be trusted at all as far as overall stability goes. Only because memory sticks are "error-free" according to "DOS Memtest" means nothing. It's a good tool to only determine faulty sticks but not "Windows stability". For overall memory stability in Windows enviroment, different tool is needed. That's where "Memtest for Windows" and Prime95 come into action.
If you can run "Memtest for Windows" for at least 3-6hrs then from my experience you are as stable as it comes

I agree. But drop the multi down to 9 so so the CPU ceiling doesn't come into play. If you can do 2.5-3-3 1T at 300 and run it through 32M SuperPi you'll really kick off the launch of this stuff with a bang.

[cupra]

and that is a good stuff like most of the tccd memory and gskill of course

[RaptorRaider]

Personally I think it's a bit strange that even though TCCD production stopped months ago we're still seeing new chips.

I bet this is the last TCCD we're going to see though.
Looks like a happy end.

Make sure you use Oskar Wu TCCD optimized BIOS for best stability and performance

Which one? 4.14-1, 4.14-3 or a different one?
Edit: Nevermind... I can see you're using 4.14-1.

[metro.cl]

Take a look at what it says herehere:

i dont like this, in this forum are more than 50 people that could use those mems, bad for g.skill should make more of this mems, this looks like the papaer launchs from ati

[Hombre]

Picaxuu, what does that mean? Only 50 packages will be manufactured?

[chunkylover77]

I cant imagine that they would go through the trouble of making this ram only to make 50 sticks.

[Cow2kie]

only 50 sticks? why would they even bother?

[PicaXuu]

Picaxuu, what does that mean? Only 50 packages will be manufactured?

That's exactly what it says but I don't know if it's really true...
Just strange...

I cant imagine that they would go through the trouble of making this ram only to make 50 sticks.

I'm totally agree with you but...
Don't really know if it's true or not...

[S0nic]

can one of the G.Skill reps comment on this?

[chunkylover77]

They must be talking about prereleasing sticks to maybe build some hype. I know that Pc Ice used these when he tested the Venice's.

[ben805]

NICE!! now please put them in the real test and see how high they can do on both 2.5-3-3-7 and 2.5-4-3-7, if these bad boys can do 330 @2.5-4-3-7 1T then I know what I'm going to upgrade next

[RaptorRaider]

As the fine tune process is very complicated and arduous, we only provide 50 sets - G.Skill F1-4800DSU2-1GBFF plus DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D to worldwide overclockers.

They are only going to release 50 sets. So there will be more G.Skill FF, just without the DFI motherboard.