[MemoryReaction] G.Skill F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ - Low in cost, high in speed!

[Kunaak]

My friend bought this ram last week.

so far, it doesnt like the 680i at all.
cant even come close to stable at 1000 on that board.

so far, hes having to run cas 5-5-5-15 at 800 mhz only.

[Reinvented]

My friend bought this ram last week.

so far, it doesnt like the 680i at all.
cant even come close to stable at 1000 on that board.

so far, hes having to run cas 5-5-5-15 at 800 mhz only.

That's kinda silly because i'm running it on my 680i, at 1000, stock timings, and 2.1v. And furthermore, I'm running 4 sticks of it! What version of the 680i does he have? And what bios version? I'm running P31, and A1...

[GAR]

My friend bought this ram last week.

so far, it doesnt like the 680i at all.
cant even come close to stable at 1000 on that board.

so far, hes having to run cas 5-5-5-15 at 800 mhz only.

I had a 780i that did the same thing, but the other one didnt, you need to use atleast 1.5v on he NB, if that doesnt work, the memory controller is busted, or picky about that particular ram.....try 1 stick, i bet they pass......also try a lower fsb and higher memory frequency and you will see them stabilize, but with higher fsb they seem to have problems with nforce chipsets.

[Cronos]

No matter what, i can't make this memory run in 8GB configuration at 1000MHz
on P5K-Pro . Sooner or later, Linpack fails.

[Dainas]

That's kinda silly because i'm running it on my 680i, at 1000, stock timings, and 2.1v. And furthermore, I'm running 4 sticks of it! What version of the 680i does he have? And what bios version? I'm running P31, and A1...

Yeah, the real trick with these is just to make sure the motherboard is not autosetting those more obscure timings too tight. Had some stability problems with these the first week, until I compared my full timings to other OC's and saw that a few things were more than a few clicks too small.

[bkraptor]

Has anyone managed to get TRRD above 42 on P5B Deluxe or any other P965 board?

I'm having problems with 2x2GB XP2-6400 4-4-4-12 Muskins. They won't run stable at 950 5-5-5-15 where as the previous 2x1GB Corsairs would. They won't even boot at 1000 (FSB 400 with 4:5 ratio). I tried voltages between 1.9V and 2.3V.

[EnJoY]

Has anyone managed to get TRRD above 42 on P5B Deluxe or any other P965 board?

I'm having problems with 2x2GB XP2-6400 4-4-4-12 Muskins. They won't run stable at 950 5-5-5-15 where as the previous 2x1GB Corsairs would. They won't even boot at 1000 (FSB 400 with 4:5 ratio). I tried voltages between 1.9V and 2.3V.

TRRD? I think you mean TRFC. And no, these sticks like TRFC around 52 on p965.

[bkraptor]

Yeah, I meant TRFC. I can't set anything over 42 in BIOS.

I've exchanged my XP2-6400 with a set of XP2-8000 and these seem to run nicely at 950 5-5-5-12 @ 1.9V, 1000% MemTest stable.

[Wales]

If you use are the ASUS 965 chips groups(Above P5B-E rank )
"Configure DRAM Timing by SPD [Enableb]"
Uses this to establish 100% to be allowed on OC DDR2-1000 Up
Above comes from the YAHOO translation XD

[lefy]

has anyone else had to RMA their kit from newegg? i got two kits and they both have at least one stick failing memtest86.

one kit failed with 400+ errors on every pass of test 5
the other kit failed test 6 with 3 errors on pass 12 of 47

am i just unlucky, or are these errors not important?

[Dr. Gonzo]

has anyone else had to RMA their kit from newegg? i got two kits and they both have at least one stick failing memtest86.

one kit failed with 400+ errors on every pass of test 5
the other kit failed test 6 with 3 errors on pass 12 of 47

am i just unlucky, or are these errors not important?

I believe that one error in memtest (having excluded the temperature factor) is an indication of faulty RAM sticks.
At what speed/settings are you running memtest?

edit:
just read your other thread, on memtest errors.
Have you tried running the cpu lower and the ram higher using a memory divider?

[lefy]

Have you tried running the cpu lower and the ram higher using a memory divider?

I haven't tried it at stock clocks (2.4GHz q6600), but I did drop it down to stock volts at 3GHz, and 1:1. That's the run that failed test 6 with 3 errors on pass 12 of 47. This sticks counterpart has been running on the same clocks/volts for 14 hours with no errors yet. It should be about 27 hours by the time I check it after work today. We'll see.

I guess I could try to run 2.4GHz and a higher divider on the bad stick. which divider should I use? whichever gets it close to 1000MHz?

[Dr. Gonzo]

I see you 've got the IP35 Pro as well

You can test it by setting the FSB @ 333 and lowering the CPU multi @ 9 so that you can run your CPU to the nearest setting to stock speed.
Then, by selecting the 1.50 divider, your RAM should run @ ~500

Test it and keep us informed

btw, my sticks can do 5-5-5-15 @ 500 2.05v without errors, but fail @ 540,
while another member and friend of mine, Skysurfer, has his sticks running 5-5-5-15 @ 550 (1T I think) and 2.05v with no problems.
I suppose they need a bit of Prime stressing before you can get the maximum MHz out of them.

[TyphooN]

I just got these sticks last night. I am running them on an Asus P5K with a Q6600. I had no problem at all getting them working at DDR1000 5-5-5-15 with 2.0v. One thing that I thought was extremely weird was how easy to get the heatspreaders off it is on these sticks. I wasn't even planning on ever removing heatspreaders again, because about a week ago I tried removing them from my GeIL 6400 2x1GB sticks.. When I did this 3 IC's were stuck onto the heatspreaders. On this memory however, I took one of the sticks out to put it into a different slot, and the heatspreader came off while trying to remove the memory. I could easily slide the heatspreader off the second stick without using any real force. Is this common on these sticks or are mine just like this?

Anyways, I was wondering what subtimings you guys can use for DDR1000, as I am trying to tweak them and im not exactly sure how tight I should start out at. The memory seems great though, I am extremely happy that I bought these.

[GripS]

I just got these sticks last night. I am running them on an Asus P5K with a Q6600. I had no problem at all getting them working at DDR1000 5-5-5-15 with 2.0v. One thing that I thought was extremely weird was how easy to get the heatspreaders off it is on these sticks. I wasn't even planning on ever removing heatspreaders again, because about a week ago I tried removing them from my GeIL 6400 2x1GB sticks.. When I did this 3 IC's were stuck onto the heatspreaders. On this memory however, I took one of the sticks out to put it into a different slot, and the heatspreader came off while trying to remove the memory. I could easily slide the heatspreader off the second stick without using any real force. Is this common on these sticks or are mine just like this?

Anyways, I was wondering what subtimings you guys can use for DDR1000, as I am trying to tweak them and im not exactly sure how tight I should start out at. The memory seems great though, I am extremely happy that I bought these.

I wonder if my HZ's will come off........ These heatspreaders aren't worth a damn anyway. I had some supertalent pc6400's that the same thing happened. I got one side off but then when i tried the other side 2 ic's were stuck to the heatspreader. It's almost as if they purposely glue them on like that so we get burned when we try and take them off.

[GSKILL TECH]

we use thermal pad not thermal tape

[TyphooN]

I wonder if my HZ's will come off........ These heatspreaders aren't worth a damn anyway. I had some supertalent pc6400's that the same thing happened. I got one side off but then when i tried the other side 2 ic's were stuck to the heatspreader. It's almost as if they purposely glue them on like that so we get burned when we try and take them off.

lol.. thats the same exact thing that happened to me, i feel for you. got one side off and figured what the hell, i might as well finish the job.. bad idea.

we use thermal pad not thermal tape

ok, so that definately explains why it was extremely easy and accidental that my heatspreaders came off. i don't really care and i will keep running the memory with no heatspreaders on.

[screwtech02]

Anybody runnin these on a Badaxe2??? Ive got 2 kits coming, and am wondering how 8gb is gonna effect my quads overclock....

[lefy]

thanks for the suggestions.

well, i ran 24+ hours of memtest on my two sticks of RAM and one of them had 3 errors during test 6 of pass 25 of 47. the other stick went over 100 passes with no errors. I'm going to have to RMA this kit... I'm not going to bother trying the other stick (that had 3 errors) at 2.4GHz

i should have done more memtest passes before I RMA'd the first kit. could have saved me time & money. lesson learned - 2-3 passes of memtest is not enough!!

the good news is that newegg just sent me my other kit which I had to RMA. I ran memtest on one stick for 12 hours without any errors. and the other stick is running now (no errors yet).

but i bought a new car 1/23 and so i'm going to go play with that all weekend and might not have time to try these recommendations for a few more days

thanks again!

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

After playing around with this ram, I can't really get anything stable over 415x9 (despite what my sig says). 7x500 will NOT get past the start up, which is pitiful.

I think if you're doing a low-end OC, its fine ram, but if you want to push your CPU, this is not the ram for the job. A lot of ddr2 800 ram is more capable than this ram. In case anyone is wondering, I ran it through 10 iterations of memtest86, all passes produced no errors.

At least I can eventually throw this ram into another system as s server. I think I'll end up looking for some new ram.

[Cronos]

Synthetickiller
Intel C2Q does not work 24/7 stable near 500MHz FSB, forget about !
Max stable FSB is 450-470MHz maybe, but this will require some voltage tweaking.

As for those 500+ you may seen, they are screen-shot only runs, not 24/7 stable.
Set your FSB to 400, memory to 1000MHz, it will work happily.

[TEDY]

which one should oc better?

G.Skill 4GB Kit F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ
or
OCZ 4GB Kit DDR2-1000 XTC Platinum

[TEDY]

nobody?

[EnJoY]

nobody?

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone around here has tried the new OCZ Platinum 4GB sticks yet. But they do use the same IC and are binned at the same speed and timings, and therefore I would have to guess that they would overclock similarly.

[CERO]

this shop rated the OCZ up to 2.2v: http://www.hpm-computer.de/product_i...-Platinum.html, if they use the same chip, then u can use the G.Skills also up to 2.2v?