3 DDR400 Sticks to choose, which one?

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MikeMike

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Originally posted by: human2k
Plan on getting Gigabyte/Asus Sis 655 Dual DDR board and I've narrowed my search for 256MB DDR400 to these three:

1. 256MB TwinMost PC3200 Cas 2.5

2. Corsair XMS 256MB PC3200 Silver Heatspreader

3. Cosair XMS 256MB PC3500 Silver Heatspreader


A few quesitons, the ones with the Silver Heatspreaders are better correct? Or are they the same as the cheaper black heatspreader ones?
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no difference in the heatspreaders, and not worth the diff in money unless you like fancy heatspreaders on your memory
 
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440sixpack

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I got a pair of these but I haven't had a chance to use 'em yet (fried my BIOS). I hope they're worth the $9 premium over the standard XMS.
 
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I just read a review on em, I'm thinking bout going with them too. Unless the regular xms stuff can do 2-2-2:).
 
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The TwinMOS uses either TwinMOS 5ns chips or Winbond BH-5 5ns chips. The latter are used by Corsair in their XMS3500 and XMS3200LL. The regular XMS3200 uses 6ns Winbond chips.
 
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Yozza, you running twinmos DDR400 ram? If I can get a couple of postive feedbacks about the ram, Imma order 4-6 sticks and sell em to my friends/family.;) Maybe $90 a stick? Of course I gotta keep 2 for me.:)
 
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Originally posted by: human2k
Yozza, you running twinmos DDR400 ram? If I can get a couple of postive feedbacks about the ram, Imma order 4-6 sticks and sell em to my friends/family.;) Maybe $90 a stick? Of course I gotta keep 2 for me.:)
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Indeed, I have 2 * 512MB sticks of the TwinMOS PC3200 (Winbond BH-5 chips), but I'm running them at 150MHz - the limit of my CPU, so I can't really say how well they overclock from my own experience. Other users' experiences indicate that they are good stuff though :)

I'll be getting phase-change soon, and hope to push to 175MHz FSB or more, but again, that's not pushing the RAM much - I bought the sticks mainly for the headroom available. Granite Bay doesn't need 200MHz+ FSB/Memory ;)
 
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