Anyone heard of V7 Memory

[nlel1975]

I've ordered 2 sticks of 16GB 2133 DDR4 memory made by V7.

On their website it says they are owned by Ingram Micro which are a well known trade distributor. It was cheap so I was slightly dubious about buying a relatively unknown brand of RAM but there website gives me confidence.

 

[Rroff]

Not supposed to link to/mention pricing on competitors on stuff OcUK sells - even if they don't sell those exact products.

 

[nlel1975]

Looking closely at the photo of the DRAM on the website where I bought it, it looks as though it has SK Hynix chips. I've checked the MSI memory compatibility for the B450 Tomahawk motherboard and SK Hynix chips are supported. Apparently they are a well known maker of DRAM chips based in South Korea hence SK Hynix.

I don't think I am going to have any problems with it, it was £ 80.75 ex VAT for each 16GB stick which was the cheapest I could find. I paid £ 40 for 16GB of DDR3 years ago now prices are at least double.

 

[nlel1975]

Here's the photo of the RAM that I have been looking at...

Looks like it has SK Hynix H5AN8G8NAFR-TFC chips...

I've found this http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=5579&title=overcocking-the-x370-killer-sli-help

It says XMP Certified 1499 MHz / 15-17-17-35-52 / 1.35 V

Does that mean these chips can run at 2998 with those timings at 1.35V?

 

[nlel1975]

Looking at the photo more carefully, looks like it uses SK Hynix H5AN8G8NMFR-TFC chips not H5AN8G8NAFR-TFC. Quite a few brand name memory suppliers use these chips apparently.

 

[PiKe]

My only concern would be the warranty, the likes of Crucial and Corsair offer lifetime warranties.

 

[MagicBoy]

Looking closely at the photo of the DRAM on the website where I bought it, it looks as though it has SK Hynix chips. I've checked the MSI memory compatibility for the B450 Tomahawk motherboard and SK Hynix chips are supported. Apparently they are a well known maker of DRAM chips based in South Korea hence SK Hynix.

SK Hynix are one of the top three DRAM chip manufacturers. Before renaming about 15 years ago they were a Hyundai and LG joint venture. So yeah, decent RAM chips ... unknown assembler. Ingram micro are generally fine though.

 

[nlel1975]

Received the DRAM today, it hasn't got SK Hynix chips instead it looks like it has Micron as on the chips it says 7PH75 D9VHP and has a little M symbol. I found a reference to D9VHP on this website...

http://www.coolaler.com/threads/micron-crucial-ddr4-2666-8gb-x2.350536/

 

[MagicBoy]

Micron is fine. It's value brand memory, they'll use whatever meets the timing specs....

 

[nlel1975]

Yeah I actually prefer Micron to SK Hynix. My current PC has 2 sticks of Crucial and 2 sticks of Micron. The Crucial stuff is basically Micron anyway. Happy to have Micron.

 

[MagicBoy]

Crucial is the consumer brand name for Micron, so yeah ... same thing!

 

[nlel1975]

Installed the memory into my new board yesterday. Its running fine at 2133 I haven't bother to try and overclock it because there is little gains.

 

[Chrisc]

Installed the memory into my new board yesterday. Its running fine at 2133 I haven't bother to try and overclock it because there is little gains.

The Ryzen chips love fast ram.

 

[nlel1975]

The Ryzen chips love fast ram.

It might do but I am perfectly happy with my relatively cheap (2x 16GB) 32GB of Micron running at 2133, I don't do any productivity stuff and fast memory only makes a difference with a 1080 or above graphics card and I have RX 580. See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4k_ErEg-FU

The RAM doesn't have ramsinks but I am not overclocking it so it doesn't need them.

 

[Chrisc]

Fair enough