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Buffalo Tech PC3200 w/Winbond CH-5

I installed my two sticks tonight. I have run them at: 11, 2, 2, 2.5 and 8, 3, 3, 2.5 and 6, 3, 3, 2.5. Tomorrow I might play with the timings and bench with each change. I have these on a DFI NFII Ultra Infinity with an XP3000+ at 12x200.
 
6, 3, 3, 2.5 is what I have read, but I have some GeIL that is about the same for less, so this would not be an upgrade, unless someone knows something I do not. By the way, I am not so happy with the GeIL

Thanks
 
great price on buffalo btw. my stick of buffalo i got from newegg runs 2-3-3-8 @ 216mhz on 2.6 volts. i tried higher voltages but it didn't seem to make a diff. hope this is useful for someone.....i'm itching to order another stick of 256 to run in dual channel.
 
I'm running 2x512 of this ram @200mhz FSB, 11-3-3-2, on an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Rev. 2, stock voltages. Dual Channel.
It runs fine at 6-3-3-2, but mem benches show the 11 setting is faster (?). I've run it at 220mhz FSB, but
my system gets a little flaky then. Not sure if the memory is the problem.

Good stuff, nice price.

 
huh?? did the ram price just take a nose dive???
I remember a month ago when stick of 256MB cost around 60 clams.
 
This is on fire hot!!! I was going to drop $50 easy on this stuff at amdmb what seems like 1 week ago. Thanks!

It doesn't say anything about the chips being CH-5, just that the chips are Winbond. Do those 2 go hand in hand?

 
Originally posted by: mdcrab
Similar thread here, but at Newegg for $38 shipped.
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mdcrab
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I think I am gonna order at newegg, this company hasn't been in busness for more than 5 months and only one review at Reselleratings.
 
I was looking at this site lastnight it looked decent I was considereing ordering from them but they on have 1 resellerrating which is from this threads starter NascarFool.
 
Originally posted by: TedKord
I'm running 2x512 of this ram @200mhz FSB, 11-3-3-2, on an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Rev. 2, stock voltages. Dual Channel.
It runs fine at 6-3-3-2, but mem benches show the 11 setting is faster (?). I've run it at 220mhz FSB, but
my system gets a little flaky then. Not sure if the memory is the problem.

Good stuff, nice price.
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I'm running 2x512 of this ram @203mhz FSB, 11-3-2-2, on an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Rev. 2, 2.7v (2.6v is stock). Dual Channel. It runs fine at 6-3-2-2, but mem benches show the 11 setting is faster.

There is an explanation on Mushkin's site somewhere as to why 11 is better than 6 in some cases. I saw a discussion on the topic on a thread on the OC'ing forum, as well. As far as I can tell from my studies and experiments... just go with whatever settings perform the best in stress tests and benchmarks and you are golden.
 
Originally posted by: khurios2000
Which on is better ch-5 or bh-5?
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BH-5 by a VERY long shot...

Im not sure why people are getting so excited over CH-5.. it has known problems with Intel boards, and is crap for overclocking. I mean, things like this "2-3-3-8 @ 216mhz on 2.6 volts" is crap! Why would you be excited over that??
 
Originally posted by: Madcat207
Originally posted by: khurios2000
Which on is better ch-5 or bh-5?
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BH-5 by a VERY long shot...

Im not sure why people are getting so excited over CH-5.. it has known problems with Intel boards, and is crap for overclocking. I mean, things like this "2-3-3-8 @ 216mhz on 2.6 volts" is crap! Why would you be excited over that??
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I think people are excited about it cause it is CHEAP!!! and some of them DO OC pretty well.
 
Originally posted by: wluk
my 2 x 256 ch5 run at 232 with loose timing.
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If you had BH-5, you would be runnin 232 with tight timings.... In most cases, the timings make MUCH more difference than FSB speeds....
 
Originally posted by: JBT
I was looking at this site lastnight it looked decent I was considereing ordering from them but they on have 1 resellerrating which is from this threads starter NascarFool.
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Yep, I started the thread. I bought from tlbmemory because of the fantastic email contact from the owner. I ordered and then cancelled. Then after a few email exchanges with the owner, I was convinced to re-order. I think he has been selling mostly on Ebay. The sticks I got are Winbond CH-5 too.

 
I recently bought a 512Mb stick of this memory from NewEgg for $76. I've got Twinmos/Winbond BH-5 running in one of my other systems at 11-2-2-2 (210FSB) without a hitch.

I'm planning to use the Buffalo in an HTPC I'm building which will be using a Biostar M7NCG-400 matx MB. This is an nForce board, and I'll be interested to see what the Buffalo can do. This system won't be heavily OC'd for general use, but, naturally, I'll want to mess around with it a bit!
 
Just to relate my experience, I ordered and canceled too. He refunded my money the very next day, no questions asked. AS soon as I come up with a little more scratch I am going to be ordering from tbl.

By the way, can you still find BH-5 chips? I have read a little about them and it seems that it was only after they switched to producing the CH-5 that people realized the BH-5 OC'd so well, and with tight timings.


Oh yea, on the tblmemory site, it says CH-5 chips for one of the several versions of buffalo chips

Dirk
 
Well....Newegg is $42 at this second.

I got 2x256 of Buffalo 3200 CH-5 from Newegg when it was $36 shipped a stick.
Yes...BH-5 is better. Big money pc3700-4200 is better. This stuff is CHEAP though!!

Mine is very happy at DDR420 2.5/3/3/11 dual-channel in an AN35Nultra Nforce2.
This is really all you need to spend on Athlon setups.
I use Buffalo 3700 BH-5 in my P4/2.4C P4P800deluxe rig. Thing is you need DDR566 for these combos.

I've been happy with Buffalos Price/Performance.
 
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