Corsair Dominator 2x2GB PC8500 DDR2

[ChaosMinionX]

Impressive speed for 8gigs

Its a very impressive kit tbh....

[Spyrus]

Try it with Static disabled, and with AI Trans Booster on STRONG. See if your results are better... according to Everest, my L2 cache latency goes way up with Static enabled/ moderate and not much RAM performance gain. When I have it disabled/STRONG it goes back to 3.5ns instead of 4.7... again no significant impact to RAM performance.

Dram Static Enabled gives 0.1ns and Twister from Moderate to Strong gives 1ns more. But the latter as i have already told needs more nb voltage (0.1+).
Try them with Moderate to see what the modules can do without bothering what the mch can do for now.

[zfactor]

Rattle has the PC8500 stuff.

no i mean 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc.. should say on the stick itself im curious

[Rattle]

little stability testing

[Spyrus]

This is the best i have seen at this voltage.
Could you post the memset for this?
TRFC value there?

[Psycho_eddie]

Im going to order these after being very disapointed with my OCZ ReaperX PC2-8000 4GB kit... even with SPD-Z flashed to 52TRFC for auto thanks to OCZ forums still cant get 5-5-5-18 even with 2.15V to get close to 1000MHZ on a 780i mobo!!

Back to the Corsair Bandwagon it would seem

[Rattle]

they are not bad for $120 shipped, they wont do 1000 at 4-4-4-12 for me it seems or 1200 at 5-5-5-15, i didnt mess with it too much though as I dont think they will do it, unless anyone has some tricks.

memset posted

[ACE76]

This memory does not work with the DFI P35 UT motherboard I tried for several hours last night to get it to work but couldn't even get Windows to begin installing...I put my Crucial Ballistix 2gb kit back in and system began working fine as usual...I was really hoping to have some fun with this 4gb kit too...oh well....hopefully DFI releases a BIOS update soon to fix this issue.

[zfactor]

well that sucks i hope it works with the dfi x38... or ill be real ticked off..

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

Has anyone confirmed these with the P5K Deluxe?

[Rattle]

Has anyone confirmed these with the P5K Deluxe?

LOL see post #79

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

LOL see post #79

After reading that, I wish I was kidding. I need some sleep!

Thanks.

[Mungri]

It looks like were not too far off from 1200 mhz 2x2 Gb sticks

And can anyone explain what is wrong with sandra? The benchmark that is, not my freaky annoying old supervisor at work XD.

I also get around 8500 mb/s bandwidth with 4-4-3-10 @ 1000 mhz. Its just not very happy with 4 dimms though hence why I want 2x2 Gb. But I thought cas 4 at 1000 mhz is really good.

[Spyrus]

There is a possibility that Intel Chipset cannot handle 1200MHz with 2GB modules on P35/X38, because some modules already reached that on nvidia chipsets.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I noticed at zipzoomfly that the MIR expires tomorrow. You guys think that for OC'ing a q6600 on a p35, this ram would be idea? I'd rather not spend more than 130 w/ shipping and the rebate makes that possible.

So I bear the question, is this kit better than almost any other 4 gig kit out there?

[Spyrus]

It is on the top 2 (Evo CL4)

[ChaosMinionX]

Anyone have problems with OCCT and the RAM test function? My current settings pass Memtest 86+ 1.7 and 2.01... as well as Prime95 for 20hrs on Blend Priority 9 with Round off checking.... but OCCT RAM test fails 30mins in.


Any ideas?

[Spyrus]

No problem here

[ChaosMinionX]

No problem here

Weird, well I think im going to ignore OCCT. And trust P95 and Memtest, because the RAM/CPU test runs for 15hrs with OCCT no errors, its just the RAM specific testing.

[Spyrus]

Yeap and P95/orthos is even more sensitive to memory than memtest and 32M

[-n7-]

Yeap and P95/orthos is even more sensitive to memory than memtest and 32M

Hah, are you serious?

P95 is joke for testing any serious amount of RAM, especially 8 GB.

I can pass custom runs of P95 for overnight (set to utilize the full 8 GB, instead of a tiny amount of RAM like normal), yet fail with those same settings in HCI Memtest in 20 minutes.

Super Pi isn't even worth discussing for stability.

In order of stressing RAM (& NB):
Linpack
HCI
Memtest86+
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P95
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Super Pi



And regarding this thread, nice results with that kit indeed

[Qba73]

There is a possibility that Intel Chipset cannot handle 1200MHz with 2GB modules on P35/X38, because some modules already reached that on nvidia chipsets.

good point, i had ocz 9200 reapers that were running 1200 ddr stable but they were 2gb (1x2), but i changed to the 4gb (2x2) dominators after upgrading my sys to a q6600 from a E6600 (wanted the e8400 but sold out @ the time) e6600 and reapers are now retired to duty in my work pc @ happy stock speeds.

i love these dominators, although just wish they could do 1200. well 1140 will hold me over until i go ddr3 when the insane prices come down...

[Spyrus]

570 is all what you need for 4GB for 24/7. That is not easy with 4x1GB for 24/7.
And 30MHz is not so noticeable loss (but 2GB more is more than helpful)

[Psycho_eddie]

Hey guys, what the complete settings for stock speed?

5-5-5-18 2.1V

But what about sub timmings etc? What should i set those to?

TRFC auto comes out @ 68 when doing 1600fsb 3:2 @ 1066Mhz mem

[PnoT]

I can't find these in stock anywhere now. I should have pulled the trigger last week on newegg ugh