Do I have very good Value Ram???

Solarius · 19 May 2006 at 23:08

Have just been overclocking for a bit, just messing with the bios and trying to get a stable 2.9Ghz from my opteron.

When doing so i left the divider to run at 166 or sumut on my ram. So now overall this has left me with my GEIL Value Ram running at 241Mhz, at 2.5-3-3-5. 2.8v

Obviously i need to stress test, Prime 95 and memtest but overall I havent noticed any other cheapo ram even reach such a high frequency, am i off my box or is this a very good set of 512 ram sticks?

http://trillarius.co.uk/Maingallery/Luke-s-Album/wow?full=1 <- A screenie.

Minstadave · 20 May 2006 at 00:05

Solarius said:
Have just been overclocking for a bit, just messing with the bios and trying to get a stable 2.9Ghz from my opteron.

When doing so i left the divider to run at 166 or sumut on my ram. So now overall this has left me with my GEIL Value Ram running at 241Mhz, at 2.5-3-3-5. 2.8v

Obviously i need to stress test, Prime 95 and memtest but overall I havent noticed any other cheapo ram even reach such a high frequency, am i off my box or is this a very good set of 512 ram sticks?

http://trillarius.co.uk/Maingallery/Luke-s-Album/wow?full=1 <- A screenie.

Thats not bad going for Geil Value, the set I had did around 225-235 at those timings, but that was a long time ago.

Oberon · 20 May 2006 at 01:18

Ive got exactly the same stuff, though CPU-Z reports mine as just DDR instead of DDR-SDRAM which i dont quite get.

Problem with my set is, i cant get it over 200Mhz, it just doesnt want to go there.

So conclusion is, yes, you have some quality value ram there.

Solarius · 20 May 2006 at 01:28

Very cool then,

. I have to say I was quite suprised. I knew Geil Ram was good but didnt know its potential.

Thanks guys

Arthalen · 20 May 2006 at 08:19

Agreed, that Geil is very nice.

On the DDR2 side of things, I have some Corsair VS that is DDR2-533 running at DDR2-720 at 4-4-4-12. I haven't tried to tighten the timings yet, but Im happy that its this bloody fasy!

james.miller · 20 May 2006 at 08:22

that's very good. most GEIL value wont do anywhere near that. what sort of bandwidth are you getting in everest or sandra?

Yoko · 20 May 2006 at 12:55

i have a 512mb stick of geil value that does 250mhz at 2.5-3-3-6
all i need is one to match it lol

Mikey1280 · 20 May 2006 at 13:17

Does geil ram respond well to more voltage? My value ram can do 2.5-3-3-6@218 with 2.75v, do you reckon it will go further with 2.8v?

Minstadave · 20 May 2006 at 13:35

Mikey1280 said:
Does geil ram respond well to more voltage? My value ram can do 2.5-3-3-6@218 with 2.75v, do you reckon it will go further with 2.8v?

Its worth a try, mine didn't get far with more much over 2.8. its not going to do it any harm

Mikey1280 · 20 May 2006 at 13:42

Ok thanks Minstadave, time to pump 3.2v into it then :eek:

Only Joking

Minstadave · 20 May 2006 at 13:57

Mikey1280 said:
Ok thanks Minstadave, time to pump 3.2v into it then

Only Joking

3.2V isn't that much

Putting 3.8V into UTT is where the fun is at. Some UTT was used in Geil Value runs, I'd have no qualms about running that at 3.2v

split · 20 May 2006 at 14:02

am i off my box or is this a very good set of 512 ram sticks?

I would say it's good, and looks like you have a chip to match.

Mikey1280 · 20 May 2006 at 14:04

Ok Minstadave, how do I tell what chips my ram has, I hear talk of TCCD, UCCD, infineon,BH5 and other strange terms, what does it all mean?

locutus12 · 20 May 2006 at 14:07

Solarius said:
So now overall this has left me with my GEIL Value Ram running at 241Mhz, at 2.5-3-3-5. 2.8v

my twinmos i got for £40 would do that too

Yoko · 20 May 2006 at 14:41

i bought my geil 512mb stick about a year ago when it was reported that a lot were utt/bh5
dunno if thats true but mines does 2-2-2-5 at 180mhz and im tempted to try and pump some volts through it to see if its utt/bh5 but im worried ill blow the bugger up lol

monkeypants · 20 May 2006 at 14:56

I have two sets of this stuff, one set does 2-3-2-5 at 200Mhz and the other 2-3-3-5 at 2.85v. I'll Vdimm my P4C800E when I've got time and crank the volts up

Solarius · 20 May 2006 at 19:33

Well, in Sandra I am getting about...

RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 (6990Mb/s)
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff' iSSE2 (6931Mb/s)

I have slightly underclocked my processor due to instability at 2.9Ghz, Now it is prime 95 stable at 2.85Ghz though, with ram at 237Mhz...

Im struggling finding my way to my goal of a 3Ghz (on Air) Opteron.

My whole main config is...

CPU Multi - 10x

FSB - 285

CPUVoltage - 1.52v ( Limited by this damn mobo)

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Ram now at 2.5-3-3-6 @1T (2.85v).

Anyone have any idea's about how i can get my opty higher??

Would it be a good idea to slacken my ram timings and try to push the CPU clock and ram clock higher?

Thanks for replys btw, much appreciated

Solarius · 20 May 2006 at 19:41

Comp now at 2.95Ghz with ram at 2.5-4-4-6. @1T

Ram now at 245Mhz...

Gonna be priming now.

Solarius · 20 May 2006 at 20:14

Well, I have managed a windows stable, 260Mhz on my ram now, at 3-3-3-6.

Sounds slow by timings but my ram bandwidth on sandra is now just shy of 7400Mb/s. Which seems VERY high for what it is.

So overall, gonna be priming 2.85Ghz with ram at 260Mhz.

(Crosses fingers)

pegasus1 · 21 May 2006 at 09:04

My 2 Gig of Geil will do 240 at 2.9v