G.Skills hmm... lol

ferrettoes · 2 Jul 2006 at 12:48

I've just looked at the G.Skills memory and OCUK seem to praise the G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 model as being the memory used by infamous overclocker Coolaler. After looking at the G.Skills website the actual memory he used to accomplish a 5.2ghz overclock is PC8000.

CPU : Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (*2)
CPU PSN : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU X6800 @ 2.93GHz (ES)
CPU EXT : MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4 EM64T
CPU Cache : L1 : 32/32 KB - L2 : 4096 KB
Core : Conroe (65 nm) / 0x6F5 / B1
Freq : 5266.55 MHz (405.12 * 13)
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MB Brand : Intel Corporation
MB Model : D975XBX
NB : Intel i975X rev 00
SB : Intel 82801GB (ICH7) rev 01
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RAM Size : 2048 MB
RAM Freq : 506.4 MHz
RAM Type : DDR2-SDRAM Dual Channel
RAM Ratio : 4:5
RAM Timings : 4-4-3-1
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Slot 1 : 1024MB (PC8000)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : G.Skill
Slot 2 : 1024MB (PC8000)
Slot 2 Manufacturer : G.Skill

Minstadave · 2 Jul 2006 at 12:57

The PC6400 and PC8000 use the same chips and seem to clock just aswell as each other.

ferrettoes · 2 Jul 2006 at 12:59

Why is there a £182 price difference then?

Explicit · 2 Jul 2006 at 13:17

ferrettoes said:
Why is there a £182 price difference then?

I'm not sure, but all I know is the PC2-6400 HZ kit is good value for money if it can do the same thing as the PC2-8000 HZ kit which costs £355.