Crucial Memory

stickroad · 7 Jan 2007 at 22:40

What does everyone think of this Memory? Apart from the Price

http://www.crucial.com/uk/ballistix/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=BL2KIT12864AL804&cat=

And what is better the Ballistix stuff or just the normal Memory?

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 22:42

frankly i don't see the big fuss.
save yourself some cash and get
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL
or
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-108-CS

i doubt the crucial is better to be honest

stickroad · 7 Jan 2007 at 22:48

Yes i was going to go with the Corsair XMS2 2GB c4 kit until i heard about the Promo ICs what put me right off

subxero · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:00

I thought the Geil used Elpidas?

From what i've seen, Micron > Promos > Elpidas

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:07

? does no1 use infineon/samsung anymore or is that a ddr1 thing?
so which chips actually have the micron?

nightic · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:12

b.cummins said:
does no1 use infineon/samsung anymore or is that a ddr1 thing?

A DDR1 thing (although Infineon & Samsung ICs are used in plenty of DDR2 modules, their performance has not to date been noteworthy).

b.cummins said:
so which chips actually have the micron?

http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/

stickroad · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:13

I beilive the Cell Shock Memory uses Microns. Unfortunately thats the only 6400 Ram that does

on the Overclockers.co.uk anyway.

The if you go down to 5300 the crucial stuff does Then theirs a hole list from the link that nightic gave you

stickroad · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:22

Does all of the 6400 Corsair Ram that overclockers sell are they all the Promo ICs?

I cant really refer to that list i dont know all the revisions

subxero · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:24

Yup, and nice link to the DDR2 list there nightic

stickroad · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:25

Can you get any Corsair Ram 6400 without the Promo ICs?

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:27

nightic said:
A DDR1 thing (although Infineon & Samsung ICs are used in plenty of DDR2 modules, their performance has not to date been noteworthy).

http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/

thanks man! looks like i have some research to do!

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:34

sorry to be a bother but do you know why certain micron chips are highlighted red and others in green?

nightic · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:50

b.cummins said:
sorry to be a bother but do you know why certain micron chips are highlighted red and others in green?

The ones in red are discontinued.

The ones in green (Micron D9GCT, D9GMH, D9GKX) are the current production versions.
The D9GCT, D9GMH & D9GKX are in fact physically the same product, only given their codes after 'binning' (the process of screening the individual ICs to grade them by how well they perform) by Micron.

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:52

nightic said:
The ones in red are discontinued.

The ones in green (Micron D9GCT, D9GMH, D9GKX) are the current production versions.
The D9GCT, D9GMH & D9GKX are in fact physically the same product, only given their codes after 'binning' (the process of screening the individual ICs to grade them by how well they perform) by Micron.

from what i've seen it looks like PC5300 might actually be a better option for an overclocker (like myself) than PC6400. Since I'm only on DDR1 I know boards only clock up to 200mhz.. how do the DDR2 Boards tag up the ram, i assume they just add a higher memlimit?