Hi,
I recently bought a pair of Geil black dragon 12800 DDR3 8GB memory modules (in a matched/boxed set) for my pc. Seemed to work fine and decided to buy an additional set (same set again) not too long after to get 32GB (Using VM's and the like).
Noticed that they were running at 1333mhz when MB on auto settings. Went into bios settings and enabled XMB profile - and on reboot my pc beeped a fair few times and then reverted back to auto settings.
Investigated further and found one set works fine on the XMB profile, the other causes the beeping. Both sets are labeled the same - "PC3 12800 1600MHz" but do notice that the memory chips on the modules are printed differently on one set than the other. Hard to read the actual chip details since the digits are so small - but one set has "Geil" printed straight, the other it's printed diagonally with a bit of a different layout on it.
Both sets work fine at 1333 and I've run memtest86+ for a few cycles with no issues.
Would a set that's labelled as 1600 but only runs at 1333 be regarded as "faulty"?
I also recently bought a 4GB 1333 module of the same memory for somebody else's pc, and the printing on the chips has the same "diagonal geil" print as the set that doesn't do 1600. Could this set have been mis-labeled/packaged at the factory? Anybody else have similar issues?
I recently bought a pair of Geil black dragon 12800 DDR3 8GB memory modules (in a matched/boxed set) for my pc. Seemed to work fine and decided to buy an additional set (same set again) not too long after to get 32GB (Using VM's and the like).
Noticed that they were running at 1333mhz when MB on auto settings. Went into bios settings and enabled XMB profile - and on reboot my pc beeped a fair few times and then reverted back to auto settings.
Investigated further and found one set works fine on the XMB profile, the other causes the beeping. Both sets are labeled the same - "PC3 12800 1600MHz" but do notice that the memory chips on the modules are printed differently on one set than the other. Hard to read the actual chip details since the digits are so small - but one set has "Geil" printed straight, the other it's printed diagonally with a bit of a different layout on it.
Both sets work fine at 1333 and I've run memtest86+ for a few cycles with no issues.
Would a set that's labelled as 1600 but only runs at 1333 be regarded as "faulty"?
I also recently bought a 4GB 1333 module of the same memory for somebody else's pc, and the printing on the chips has the same "diagonal geil" print as the set that doesn't do 1600. Could this set have been mis-labeled/packaged at the factory? Anybody else have similar issues?
and it would cost me the same price as a fresh copy of Professional or Ultimate to buy an "upgrade" from MS.