Ram confusion

xirokx

xirokx

xirokx

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Hi,

Recently Ive seen over in the hardware section a lot of people going for the corsair RAM instead of the Geil....same timings etc etc....

I forgot to look at which is cheaper however I thought the geil and conroe 2's were a great combo...

Please clarify, been away for a few weeks so must have missed a post or something...

thanks in advance

cheers!!
 
A small (but vocal) minority of ppl have received some Geil that doesn't meet their expections and are scaring off potential Geil buyers.
 
me i allways buy corsair. but as for everyone else. there has been a lot of posts recently with people with problems with geil memory so i think its putting people off.

edit:sheesh only just realise i had put corsair porbs ment geil
 
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I got both.

Corsair XMS6400 TwinX
Geil 6400 Ultra Low Latency

Much prefer the corsair, and always have done.

for DDR, I have 3200 3500 and 4400 in platinum Flavours, and also 3200 and 4400 in TwinX in various PCs... All are Corsair but recently I have had a go at OCZ and been happy for stock systems ( Gone for corsair for the clockability of them )

Recently since going with Conroe, I have the 6400C4 Corsair XMS DDR2 and its been great, and only a couple of weeks ago I went for the geil.

Corsair and Geil are all rated identically, 4-4-4-12, the corsair is happy as larry at 1.8v which is what the Mobo ( DS3 ) Defautls to, but the Geil needs a minimum of 1.9v ( Fixed apparently although I have not needed to clear the BIOS yet and find out if thats true ) and so with Geil, there is an issue of needing to adjust the BIOS with some other RAM first before you use the Geil... Going from the Corsair to the Geil was not an issue for me there.

However, one thing I have noticed...

With the Corsair, I only took it to 400FSB ( 2.8Ghz ) and I got a fairly reliable 18 Second, 1MB SuperPI.

The Geil gets me 23???

I have now been running the Geil up to 450FSB which sounds like a very sweet overclock, but I am only hitting 19 seconds on a 1MB SuperPI.

My thoughts on that are simple... Geil are overhyped and they are nowhere near as fast as corsair.

They are orange however, so they look great.

Now, on this note, I will say though, that I seem to be havbing a few issues with my board cos the system does not seem to be running quite right, however, thats what I am getting.
 
FatRakoon said:
My thoughts on that are simple... Geil are overhyped and they are nowhere near as fast as corsair.
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Hi xirokx....Can't vouch for the recent batch/user problems.....but my Geil are just as good as the more expensive ram...@ 4:5 will do 1100 and 1:1 have done 1000 no prob's....proof is in my posts. :D
 
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