Geil have i been sent the wrong mem

Bludgeon · 23 Aug 2007 at 13:17

hi there
i had 2 gigs of ultra low latency and then a few months later
upgraded to 4
my question is in cpu-z 2 sticks show up as pc6400 and two as
pc5300 which is a bit odd.
both boxs say they are pc6400 (which is what i orderd) so why do two report to be pc5300?
should i call ocuk and ask for new sticks?
all the best
DMB

Cob · 23 Aug 2007 at 13:46

It's quite common for PC6400 to report itself as PC5300 in CPU-Z.

Bludgeon · 23 Aug 2007 at 13:51

thanks cob
i swapped the sticks around
ie slots 1 and 3 with slots 2 and 4
and the same two still say they are 5300.
ill try and find somthing other then cpu-z
all the best
DMB

Emlyn_Dewar · 26 Aug 2007 at 18:00

Have you tried setting the speed and timings yourself in bios? Seems that a lot of mobos set the Geil Ultra wrong.

Bludgeon · 30 Aug 2007 at 14:29

Emlyn_Dewar said:
Have you tried setting the speed and timings yourself in bios? Seems that a lot of mobos set the Geil Ultra wrong.

yes i set the timings in the bios, ive a gigabyte ds4
the same 2 sticks show up as pc2 5300 in PC Wizard as well?
ive 4 sticks
2 show PC2 5300
2 show PC2 6400

dmb

dovey · 30 Aug 2007 at 14:57

Had the same problem with my dads pc, everything was set to auto and it picked it up as 5300 with 5-5-5-12 timings or something too high. Manually set it to 6400 with the correct timings and it has been fine ever since. What does it say on the ram?

Fanatic · 30 Aug 2007 at 21:17

With the GEIL Ultras you also need to up the voltage usually as they default to 1.8 but should be 1.9.

ns400r · 31 Aug 2007 at 00:39

Early GEIL 6400 memory shows as 5300. SPD's should have been altered by GEIL on the later sticks. Voltage for the memory should be set to 2.1v (+0.30v in the BIOS) instead of the motherboard default of 1.8v.

BigglesPiP · 31 Aug 2007 at 02:33

Early ones show a best of PC2-5300 C5, new ones show PC2-6400C5.

They all need 2.1V to make PC2-6400C4.

The early ones may even have micron chips?

Bludgeon · 1 Sep 2007 at 13:53

ns400r said:
Early GEIL 6400 memory shows as 5300. SPD's should have been altered by GEIL on the later sticks. Voltage for the memory should be set to 2.1v (+0.30v in the BIOS) instead of the motherboard default of 1.8v.

yep id set the voltage to +0.3 in the bios
the two that show up as 5300 were my first set got the others a few months after.
they all are labled 6400 on the heatsinks
screengrab
http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ramcopyek6.jpg
dmb

ns400r · 1 Sep 2007 at 14:14

Nothing to worry about. Just set the memory to its rating in the bios and you'll be fine. All should be explained in the instructions that came with the memory.