Quote Originally Posted by LennyRhys View Post
That's awesome, especially tRFC 30 - was this at 500fsb, and are your Teams GMH or GKX? The general opinion on D9 seems to be that GMH is better than GKX for high MHz cas5, and since I've only ever had low binned GMH/high binned GKX I can't say from experience.

I've been at PL10 since getting these Cell Shocks, and now I'm trying PL8. I've upped the vMCH one increment and have taken vdimm down to 1.96v, still stable. Woot.
Well I ran many settings just testing, but 24/7 was 500 FSB / DDR2-1200 at the above timings & vdimm. My Team Group kit (the one that does 1200 @ 1.93v) is unknown, as I've never removed the heatspreader.

Quote Originally Posted by Don_Dan View Post
Thanks for the input CryptiK, maybe I have been mistaken all the time.
I always was under the impression that running tighter PLs requires both an increase in vMCH and vDIMM. I never did undervolting tests, so I don't have any data about how my kits fare at ~2.00V. Something I know for sure is that I degraded one of my Anniversary Kits when benching during the holidays, it won't boot with less than 2.00V.

Now I have some more things to check when I get back home, it has been almost 9 months since I played with DDR2 D9 for the last time. Time to get back to good old D9.
I have a new and unused TeamGroup 1066CL5 kit that will be perfect for these tests.

btw, nice sig image Lenny
Well I can say for sure on the boards I've tested, including DDR3, I've never needed a vdimm increase to retain stability at a given ram speed when reducing PL (tRD). Sorry to hear about your anni's degrading.

Quote Originally Posted by JULO View Post
LennyRhys, CellShock is not the best DDR2 provider
GKXs used by them are great @ CAS5, but @ CAS4 there're a lot of mems better than CS
that's because of very different steppings used by cellshock, I've had 1000 C4, 1000 C5 and red devil - all the same: pretty CAS5, crappy C4
In my opinion Team Group rules However it's hard to decide, there's too much of good rams
Both Team and Cellshock make great kits. Cellshock just stand out for their build quality, their heatspreaders are second to none. That's why they get so hot - they are actually working!