anyone have geil pc3500 ultra platinum?

[Jeff7]

I'm running a stick of this at its rated speeds with no problems. I don't know if it's really at 2T though, as there's no setting for that in the 8RDA+'s BIOS, at least not that I've seen. It's got settings for just about everything else though. I've got another stick on the way; should be here Monday afternoon, so I'll see how the dual channel works then too.
I'll say this - the heatspreaders might as well not exist at all; they use thick thermal tape, which might as well be called an insulator. Maybe I'll take them off and use Arctic Silver instead; they are a nice blue color.

 

[Revolutionary]

Originally posted by: AthlonXP

Originally posted by: loeboy
OK... I'm 2 hours away from ordering 1GB of Geil Ultra PC3500 Dual Channel memory from Egghead. Any last minute comments or pleas? Oh yeah, I'll be running this on an Abit IC7 with 2.4B cpu if it makes a difference.

egghead, wtf? You mean newegg, don't get the two confused.:|

I saw that too! Got my hopes up, ya know. The good ole Egghead days!

 

[Ilmater]

I too remember Egghead software. Isn't Newegg.com just Egghead reborn? That's what I've always thought. Sorry, that's OT.

ANYWAY, I did find that the Geil was my problem. When I switched to Corsair's XMS PC3200, I was greeted with an easy 210MHz. I don't need to know if it goes higher because I'm already satisfied (and I moved back to 200MHz).

GEIL IS CRAP!!!!

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
I too remember Egghead software. Isn't Newegg.com just Egghead reborn? That's what I've always thought. Sorry, that's OT.

ANYWAY, I did find that the Geil was my problem. When I switched to Corsair's XMS PC3200, I was greeted with an easy 210MHz. I don't need to know if it goes higher because I'm already satisfied (and I moved back to 200MHz).

GEIL IS CRAP!!!!

I had the identical experience as you and did the identical thing to correct it. The Corsair is lightyears better than the GeIL pc3200 i had that never would run stable over 185mhz.

 

[ribeiro]

Most of Geil is crap but this one is very good and special, can easily reach 500Mhz as my Corsair does!!!

 

[tchybrid]

i have ultra platinums, and i have had no problems at DDR433 with the recommended timings.

i've hit DDR460, but from then on, i think my CPU doens't like that FSB. so i'm leaving it at DDR433.

 

[RIGorous1]

hey ken...

 

[tchybrid]

hey ben, figure out which ram you want to get?