Boiling HOT! Corsair Value DDR2 4200 1gb Kit $83 shipped

[V00D00]

I really need to know this...

Will I be able to overclock this to 600mhz??

$1 paypal'ed to anyone who can confirm this memory runs at this speed.

If I can I will jumping all over this.

 

[dheffer]

Its only guaranteed for upto pc4200. Anything past that is YMMV

 

[V00D00]

darn, that's gay.

 

[dheffer]

um yeah
there is ddr2 ram that will run @ 600mhz, you know, and im sure some sticks will run at this speed, too

 

[hytek369]

damn ram gets cheaper every week

 

[the Juice]

In a Dell 4700 this stuff will just clock down anyway right? It can't run faster than PC2-3200 ddr2.

 

[Samus]

Originally posted by: PoPPaChuBBy
The specs say Cas latency 4. This would be a high number for regular DDR memory, no? Does it somehow mean something different for DDR2?

Well...DDR2 is slower clock for clock to DDR. It's more of a scalable, low voltage alternative to DDR. It doesn't really 'get faster' til you get to 533 or 667.

 

[Trader05]

In a Dell 4700 this stuff will just clock down anyway right? It can't run faster than PC2-3200 ddr2.

No, i have it in my 4700, it runs at 533/4200

+$1

 

[MisfitsFiend]

This seems to be unstable in my 8400. I keep getting blue screens when it is in there alone or with my original 512. Seems I will have to sell or return it unless anybody has any ideas?

 

[Trader05]

try them alone and do a memtest, see what pops up, its possible to have a bad stick

 

[MisfitsFiend]

Originally posted by: Trader05
try them alone and do a memtest, see what pops up, its possible to have a bad stick

I decided to test it and you are correct. After only 3% pass on memtest, I had over 30 errors. Now I have to rma it. Should I send it to Corsair or back to Chiefvalue for replacement?

 

[RBBRMADE]

Got mine from ZZF, took 'em a couple of days to ship, but the stuff works great n my SC420.

 

[Trader05]

MisfitsFiend - Contact cheifvalue to see if it would be faster to RMA with them, they might just do an exchange

 

[JimmyK319]

If at any time your memory fails past chiefvalues exchange policy, go here. There are some stickies you can read to see what to do.

 

[JimmyK319]

Update: Chiefvalue.com has it for $102 shipped.

 

[Noirish]

Originally posted by: JimmyK319
Update: Chiefvalue.com has it for $102 shipped.

$2 cheaper than last week when i bought mine.
no problem in my d4700 so far.

i wish there is a deal on ddr pc2700 sodimm.

 

[Trader05]

Thanks for the updates guys, thread and topic updated...-$2 bump

 

[mfbf]

Monarch is down to $99. New set is working great. Passed memtest also. Have both the corsair and the original 2x256 samsung in my 8400 and no problems.

 

[anandtechrocks]

Also available in the DDR2 range is the OCZ value ram version. It is only $95 and also has free shipping. I'm not sure which ram is better though, Corsair or OCZ.

 

[JimmyK319]

So far I've seen these at the prices shipped:

Corsair - $99 now, $105 when I bought it.
Wintec - $106
Geil - $110
OCZ - $95
Mushkin - $103

The first three were the ones I found to be in the price range when I bought my ram. Had I known about the OCZ, I may very well have bought that. And if the Mushkins were $103 shipped at the time I would have definitely bought those. I don't know of the performance difference between these and I would love to benchmark them but I can't. I don't know why, but I'm sold by the Mushkin name and at the current prices between the ram, would buy it over the rest.

I don't know ram at all, but I seriously doubt there is much difference between the valueram. Somebody tell me if I am wrong. I would really like to know. So in response to the poster above, just get the more inexpensive one as OCZ has lifetime warranty as well.

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I tested the corsairs on sisoft sandra with my dell 8400 and got 4200MB/s as the # for the bandwidth. No background programs running.

I got my cousin who tested his mushkins on his dell 4700, and it scored 4455MB/s and that's with a few background programs running.

However, I scored higher on the speed rating (7708MB/s for me, 7486MB/s for him)at pcpitstop.com. Keep in mind he didn't restart his computer before testing. So after all this, I have concluded nothing.

 

[VitoVonAntwon]

Hi,

Hey, do you think I can underclock em, and run tighter timings.

I have 3500 ram that I'm running at 2 2 6 2. The tightest timings.
It's 1 gig of kingston hyper x ram.

Antonio

 

[Shaorinor]

These work on AMD mobos?

 

[MisterE]

Originally posted by: Shaorinor
These work on AMD mobos?

No. No current Athlon chipsets or AMD CPUs (with integrated memory controller) support DDR2 memory.

 

[Trader05]

tested the corsairs on sisoft sandra with my dell 8400 and got 4200MB/s as the # for the bandwidth. No background programs running.

I got my cousin who tested his mushkins on his dell 4700, and it scored 4455MB/s and that's with a few background programs running.

I just got 4800mb/s with 36 processes running and my computer on 24/7, this is with Corsair on a dell 4700. Thinking about buying another gig, 2gb of ram should be good to handle longhorn right?

 

[Shaorinor]

Originally posted by: MisterE

Originally posted by: Shaorinor
These work on AMD mobos?

No. No current Athlon chipsets or AMD CPUs (with integrated memory controller) support DDR2 memory.

Thanks, just wanted to clarify. Had read as much, but wasn't sure if I could use it and the mobo would just register it as DDR.