Geil or G.Skill?

mcgriffo

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Both on offer this week - which would you go for and why?

They both appear to have the same timings....

On the one hand I think Gibbo has recommended the G.Skill above th eGeil and someone else has said the Geil Ultra Low uses more voltage so runs hotter

HOWEVER

There have been several posts telling peoplet to swap out the G.Skill and replace with the Geil on their specs.....

Any thoughts?

If I had to say, think I'm edging towards the G.Skill..... but my mind can be changed.
 
Im running that very G.Skill with my set-up, currently at 3.15Ghz with ease, very happy with it. tbh I dont think there will be much difference with the 2, just I know a lot of Geil got returned as it was faulty which kinda put me off it.
 
I'm gonna suggest the OCZ because it's the same price but doesn't have the issues the GeIL has had. Saying that, I'm sure 95% of people dont have problems with their Geil and it may be worth the gamble.
 
In the past 7 months I have had 5 sets of new Geil PC6400 Ultra through my hands and 3 were fine, 1 was a bit 'fussy' (it needed 1.9V, not 2.1V to run right) and one was error-ridden and was RMA'd without any problems.

I've stopped buying GeIL RAM now that Crucial has dropped so significantly in price. If you can get the Crucial Ballistix PC5300 C3 for £130 why would you buy anything else? You know for a fact that it's always going to be Micron RAM and the RMA service is second to none - guaranteed like for like replacement inside 48 hours. I don't know of any other memory supplier that can match that.
 
jongeeone said:
This geil goes far tbh aswell - reports of 1000mhz
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Yes, but very few and none recently. I think the initial couple of batches were very good indeed, but the more recent ones are struggling to break 425FSB at 5-5-5-20-30-2T and they only just do their rated 4-4-4-15 at 400FSB.

I believe there is RAM that is currently better value.
 
mcgriffo said:
And - WJA96 - what IS that RAM which is currently better value?
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Well, if I was buying some RAM right now, I'd probably get the Crucial PC8000 stuff at £165 because you can run genuine 1:1 with it all the way to 500MHz. Yes, it's rated C5 at 500MHz, but it's also rated C3 at 333MHz and C4 at 400MHz. And if it breaks, they'll have some new stuff in your PC inside 48 hours. None of the other memory manufacturers offer anything like that level of RMA service.
 
WJA96 said:
Well, if I was buying some RAM right now, I'd probably get the Crucial PC8000 stuff at £165 because you can run genuine 1:1 with it all the way to 500MHz. Yes, it's rated C5 at 500MHz, but it's also rated C3 at 333MHz and C4 at 400MHz. And if it breaks, they'll have some new stuff in your PC inside 48 hours. None of the other memory manufacturers offer anything like that level of RMA service.
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Dude do you mean this stuff?

Cos it's only 1gb.

The 2gb Ballistix pc5300 kit would be wiser. It should do 500mhz at atleast C5. Probably lower.
 
If the PC5300 is actually available and not 'at Dover docks' which is where the 10+ Lian Li PC-A05 cases are apparently then as I said, that would be a better buy.

And yes, that was the kit I meant, but they do actually have a 2Gb kit for not a lot more somewhere.

Either way, I still wouldn't buy the GeIL.
 
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