Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3500LL, worth the extra?

Mark A · 22 Mar 2006 at 04:19

Im thinking of upgrading my ram and wondered if Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3500LL Pro TwinX was worth the massive £220 price tag?. If it isnt then what would you reccomend in its place?, would the ocz platinum ram perform as good as the corsair?. Also if anyone has the above ram what will it clock to on stock timings?

cheers

Mark

Street · 22 Mar 2006 at 12:10

In a word... Yes!

Heres what I can manage with my sticks...

Thats with the RAM at 2.6V as well. I've spoken to several other people and they can all get very similar results from them. They top out at those timings at that speed, but can probably go further with looser timings.

On stock timings I can get to 227MHz@2-3-2-5. But Other people have been able to get up to 232 at stock timings.

If you don't want to have your HTT much over 250 then I'd say these sticks are perfect as they will allow you to keep very tight timings at highish speeds. Not too sure how they handle at higher HTT speeds with lower timings as I've never tried it.

Mark A · 22 Mar 2006 at 14:23

Very nice indeed, i think ill be going for this ram then. Its supposed to be guaranteed to work with the ASUS mobo ill be getting as well which is a bonus.

Mark

platty · 22 Mar 2006 at 14:44

yes its good RAM, also maybe worth considering the OCZ 2Gb Pc4000 thats on this week only, also does 250 with 2-2 timings

pieman109 · 22 Mar 2006 at 14:57

platty said:
yes its good RAM, also maybe worth considering the OCZ 2Gb Pc4000 thats on this week only, also does 250 with 2-2 timings

Are you sure a 2gig kit can do that? I was under the impression that only 2 x 512 can do 2-2-2 timings. I don't doubt you, but is that over 3v Vdimm or something?

Street · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:19

platty said:
yes its good RAM, also maybe worth considering the OCZ 2Gb Pc4000 thats on this week only, also does 250 with 2-2 timings

You sure about that?

Amidar · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:50

Why not?

I have 2 x 1GB sticks of Crucial Ballistix PC4000 running @ 2.2.2.5 @2.7v in my Asus A8N32 motherboard been like this for 1 month & 6 months previously in my DFI Lanparty at the same timings.

w3bbo · 23 Mar 2006 at 00:42

Had mine running 2-3-2-5 @ 265 1:1 with 2.9v

If you have a big enough multi I would defo get these. They will clock on average to 260 1:1 with 2-3-2-6.

Street · 23 Mar 2006 at 15:24

Amidar said:
Why not?

I have 2 x 1GB sticks of Crucial Ballistix PC4000 running @ 2.2.2.5 @2.7v in my Asus A8N32 motherboard been like this for 1 month & 6 months previously in my DFI Lanparty at the same timings.

Well those were some damn good sticks then... any screenshots?

b.cummins · 23 Mar 2006 at 18:05

Street said:
In a word... Yes!

Heres what I can manage with my sticks...

Thats with the RAM at 2.6V as well. I've spoken to several other people and they can all get very similar results from them. They top out at those timings at that speed, but can probably go further with looser timings.

On stock timings I can get to 227MHz@2-3-2-5. But Other people have been able to get up to 232 at stock timings.

If you don't want to have your HTT much over 250 then I'd say these sticks are perfect as they will allow you to keep very tight timings at highish speeds. Not too sure how they handle at higher HTT speeds with lower timings as I've never tried it.

is that at 1T command rate?

Street · 23 Mar 2006 at 18:13

Yeh it is

b.cummins · 23 Mar 2006 at 21:19

Street said:
Yeh it is

im starting to understand why its so expnesive!! can u see it running

-FSB 220mhz
DDR Frequence 233 MHZ

Total 253mhz per channel

at 1T on an Asus A8n32 SLi? (and the timings u achieved?

Street · 23 Mar 2006 at 23:07

Yeh it should do around that... Its meant to work better with Asus boards as well as far as i know

w3bbo · 24 Mar 2006 at 02:58

I've tried them in both the A8n32 and the DFI ultra d and they work just aswell in either board, both stock and overclocked.

b.cummins · 24 Mar 2006 at 16:12

w3bbo said:
I've tried them in both the A8n32 and the DFI ultra d and they work just aswell in either board, both stock and overclocked.

reckon i could achieve 1T still with DDR 250MHZ (500) and FSB clocked to 222MHZ, what timings would u say that'd get too? IS it doable?

w3bbo · 24 Mar 2006 at 20:18

Considering that the 3500LL's are only rated to 438 mhz stock anything close to 500 is a bonus.

I have found that it isn't so much the timings as 3-4-4-10 made no extra difference to 2.5-3-3-8 when clocking for stability. What made the difference for me was pumping 2.9v through them (recommended max is 2.8) so if you want tight timings with decent bandwidth, deffo increase the voltage(just dont go too far!).

Street · 25 Mar 2006 at 02:30

b.cummins said:
reckon i could achieve 1T still with DDR 250MHZ (500) and FSB clocked to 222MHZ, what timings would u say that'd get too? IS it doable?

Yeh, i reckon so. Why would you want to run the RAM at DDR500 though if the FSB was only 222? Would be better off keeping it at 1:1 and you could probably run the RAM at 2-3-2-5 at that speed

w3bbo said:
so if you want tight timings with decent bandwidth, deffo increase the voltage(just dont go too far!).

Not necessarily... I found mine became less stable with more volts. To get my peak timings/speed of [email protected] I only needed 2.6V.

wattsy · 25 Mar 2006 at 13:25

yeah very good ram indeed