Winbond BH-5 (Kingston Value)

Killajaz · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:54

Hi,

I just received two 512mb sticks of Kingston Value PC3200 which has Winbond BH-5 IC's!

Code is W942508BH-5.

Anyone have any experience of these?
Will they be any use in my new build consisting of an OPTY 165 and an ASUS A8N-E mobo? (planning to reach 2.5-2-6ghz with the opty)

m3csl2004 · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:14

they should do tighter timmings with volts but tbh this new bh-5 aint nothing on the old stuff

still great for value ram though

monkeypants · 9 Mar 2006 at 22:51

I have four sticks of GeIL value 512 that are all BH-5. Pity the board only goes up to 2.85v... Voltmod time!

4Qman · 10 Mar 2006 at 17:31

Killajaz said:
Hi,

I just received two 512mb sticks of Kingston Value PC3200 which has Winbond BH-5 IC's!

Code is W942508BH-5.

Anyone have any experience of these?
Will they be any use in my new build consisting of an OPTY 165 and an ASUS A8N-E mobo? (planning to reach 2.5-2-6ghz with the opty)

Were they purchased at OCUK dude, Nice set of sticks mate will require 3.2-3.3v to hit good timmings/speeds

Killajaz · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:59

PITA!

heh, system wouldnt boot.
I tried the BH sticks on my NF7s Rev2 board and I only get continous long beeps with them. Regardless of which one I use in any slot. Two sticks give the same error.

The ram is rated at 2.5v. Lowest setting on the NF7 is 2.6, but that should not be a problem with Bh5!

Are these sticks borked? Gonna clear cmos and see if it helps.

chopchop · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:42

2.5 ? i doubt you'll get the 2-2-2-5 goodness at that voltage, try 2.8-3.0 and 3.3 if you want to do silly speeds.

trojan698 · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:25

chopchop said:
2.5 ? i doubt you'll get the 2-2-2-5 goodness at that voltage, try 2.8-3.0 and 3.3 if you want to do silly speeds.

Indeed, Also remember it probably wont even post at cas3

monkeypants · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:07

trojan698 said:
Indeed, Also remember it probably wont even post at cas3

One set of mine does 2-3-2-5 200Mhz at 2.85v, the other does 2-3-3-5 which isn't bad for a relatively low voltage.

Killajaz · 13 Mar 2006 at 10:03

trojan698 said:
Indeed, Also remember it probably wont even post at cas3

it doesnt post at all

Just the beeps :/
Should I slap in some other ram to gain access to bios and change the cas?
If so, what timings should input so the BH-5 actually works when I put it in?

sja360 · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:11

monkeypants said:
One set of mine does 2-3-2-5 200Mhz at 2.85v, the other does 2-3-3-5 which isn't bad for a relatively low voltage.

he meant cas as in the 2 -3-3-5