Geil low latency on DS3 board (other owners help needed)

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Any one out there with this memory on this board play either BF2 or Company of heroes? iam having mega problems installing patchs,if i take a stick out i can install and run company of heroes but i havent tried BF2 on one stick.
Had memory problems when i first built the comp a month ago but i manually set the voltage to 2.1v and timings to 4,4,4,12 and ran memtest for 5 1/2 hours and no errors.
CPU on stock settings 1:1 its driving me nuts. :mad:
 
Just one other thing when you removed the memory from the box did it have any anti wrapping on or was it just in a plastic tray inside the box? everytime i have had memory each stick was in a anti static bag.
 
It may sound sad but its starting to depress me as i spent a lot of money building it and its not and cant use it as intended :( missus isnt happy at all as it was money that could have been spent on something else as she put it :rolleyes:
 
yeh i tried them all with each stick on there own no problems (ran memtest for about 45 mins to hour)but as soon as i put both it thats when the problems start.Is there any way of actually testing Dual channel to see if its working.
 
well it did say dual when i had both of them in.
I just dont see why a patch would install with only one stick and but not 2 :confused: i tok one out restarted and it patch COH first time it just doesnt make sense.
 
Can anyone make sense of this :confused: patched company of heroes with one stick removed and played the games o.k but add the other stick and it wont BUT just out of interest i up the memory multiplier from 2.0 to 3.0 so CPU 266 x 3 =800 as x 2 was 533 which CPUz shows as the SPD max but obviously the SPD is wrong.Tryed company of heroes and it worked :confused: changed multiplier back to 2.0 and it work but on switching the computer off and starting it today COH wouldnt work again so i changed the multiplier to 3.0 again and it worked again :confused: I know Geil say there memory is backwards compatable but do you think it doesnt like to run at such low speeds.
 
CPUz shows as the SPD max but obviously the SPD is wrong

nop thats what the manufacturers specs, it dont lie m8
geil sayed they done it for compatable but thats a load of crap.

i sent a geil an email saying it was false advertising and they offred to reprogram them, sayed i had an old batch

could you post a SPD shot m8 with CPUz?

i thinking of just selling it as i ordered a set of the cellshock with amazing
SPD timmings.
 
same as the timmings on mine

now why would geil, program memory to say pc5300 max bandwith
for it in order to boot

Gskill dont do it
OCZ dont do it
cellshock dont do it

http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=577444121m245vuk3.jpg

thats my new ram iam getting notice its programmed to say what it does on the tin

the geil memory is a con it works great on the 965 chipset, but the 975 chipset its more stricter with SPD timmings if your pushing high FSB
thats the conclusion i came to, and i will no shortly when i receive my cellshock tmr.
 
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The P965 DS3 has major problems with the G.Skill on first boot because of its SPD settings.

The P965 DS3 has (had?) major problems with the OCZ on first boot because of its SPD settings.

The P965 DS3 works like a dream with the Geil on first boot because of it's SPD settings.

It would seem that the lower SPD settings for the Geil have benefited more DS3 users than it will ever p*** off.
 
Fair comment but putting a warning to say that it might not suit all systems and that you may have to adjust your settings would be nice instead of me spending over a month trying to find out what was wrong :mad:
 
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Cob said:
The P965 DS3 has major problems with the G.Skill on first boot because of its SPD settings.

The P965 DS3 has (had?) major problems with the OCZ on first boot because of its SPD settings.

The P965 DS3 works like a dream with the Geil on first boot because of it's SPD settings.

It would seem that the lower SPD settings for the Geil have benefited more DS3 users than it will ever p*** off.
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that was when memory makers 1st started out with the Elphida chips
and only was 965 problem, they soon changed quicky to micron

Elphida chips are used on the value DDR ram so their set to SPD safty mode
5.5.5.15 @ 1.9 volts.

most motherboards can boot with gskill OCZ if you have newer revision's
of the ram.
 
Geil reduced the SPD timings because very few P965 boards would be pushing the required 2.0-2.1v through the vdimm to achieve PC6400 C4 speeds on first boot.

If they'd set the SPD settings to 800Mhz @4-4-4-12 then they, and OCUK, would have had a heck of a lot of RMA'd memory.
 
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