Yes indeed, when to buy it. Last week I thought $104 was a steal, now I am wondering why all my PC's should not have a 1gb upgrade, my target for doing that is $89.99 delivered. By Friday it may just get there.
Yes indeed, when to buy it. Last week I thought $104 was a steal, now I am wondering why all my PC's should not have a 1gb upgrade, my target for doing that is $89.99 delivered. By Friday it may just get there.
pisses me off, I paid 135 about a month ago...
In case no one's noticed, this ram is down to $100 shipped at ZZF now too. 
With 2-day shipping, might be slightly warmer than Newegg, depending on where you live.
With 2-day shipping, might be slightly warmer than Newegg, depending on where you live.
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My gb gave me 3 errors in 11 passes in memtest, upping the voltage .1 took care of the problem, I ran it again @ 210mhz last night and zero errors again , same voltage. Slightly relaxed timings.
jjsole, ive had a gb of this stuff before and it does not like tighter timings @ all..but it will go faster with relaxed timings. Faster is better than tighter by far, the odds are is that youll never notice the difference between cas 2.0 and 3.0 .
At least its Corsair and it has a good lifetime warranty with it, id still take this over the Kingmax stuff in the other Hot Deal thread.
jjsole, ive had a gb of this stuff before and it does not like tighter timings @ all..but it will go faster with relaxed timings. Faster is better than tighter by far, the odds are is that youll never notice the difference between cas 2.0 and 3.0 .
At least its Corsair and it has a good lifetime warranty with it, id still take this over the Kingmax stuff in the other Hot Deal thread.
I cancelled my Kingmax purchase and jumped on this instead. All those Kingmax memtest problems scared me away.
Plus, gotta love ZZF's 2 day shipping =)
Plus, gotta love ZZF's 2 day shipping =)
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...202&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM853C
not as hot but in case corsair goes out of stock...
not as hot but in case corsair goes out of stock...
Squalish2357 said:
I doubt that. Can you please clarify why you say this?
According to
California Secretary of State Business Filings
there's nothing indicating any link to Newegg.
Thanks.
I doubt that. Can you please clarify why you say this?
According to
California Secretary of State Business Filings
there's nothing indicating any link to Newegg.
Thanks.
They might not technically be a division, but they have the same address lol.
At any rate, for this price I'm considering just springing the extra $25 or so to get the Mushkin Cas2 stuff...although if the kingmax were still available for $84 shipped I'd probably go that route since I'm cheap.
Great deal, I was going to buy some just over a month ago and it was like $140 ish.
I just jumped on the Monarch deal $99 shipped, delivery is 5-7 days which don't matter as I will be working till it comes anyway.
Just gotta hope it wants to work with my 512 Kingston that's alrerady in there at the moment *fingers crossed*
I just jumped on the Monarch deal $99 shipped, delivery is 5-7 days which don't matter as I will be working till it comes anyway.
Just gotta hope it wants to work with my 512 Kingston that's alrerady in there at the moment *fingers crossed*
PDQ (Pathetically Dumb Question) Time.
How will this work in an Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev 1.4 mobo. This was one of the early nForce2 mobo's that only supports a max of 333Mhz FSB for the CPU. According to the manual, it will support PC3200 non-ECC DDR Ram and also Dual Channel DDR400.
I have been running an Athlon XP 2000+ for a couple of years without any problems. I don't game that much anymore but I am starting to use the system for multimedia and DVD authoring so a faster CPU is becoming a consideration. If I had scads of time, I would probably buy a new mobo and an Athlon64 but swapping out a CPU is relatively painless and fast.
Due to the mobo FSB limitation, the logical upgrade path would be a 333 MHZ FSB Barton. But, I seem to recall that to get the maximum benefit of an nForce2 mobo, you would want the CPU FSB and memory to be the same speed but I'm not sure. So, there are some questions here:
1. Is it preferable to run the CPU FSB and memory at the same speed?
2. If yes, to the previous, is it possible to manually lower the clock speed of this memory or will it default automatically to the SPD?
3. If I underclock the memory as PC2700/ dual channel DDR333, can I use more agressive memory timings?
Bottom line, is this memory good choice?
How will this work in an Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev 1.4 mobo. This was one of the early nForce2 mobo's that only supports a max of 333Mhz FSB for the CPU. According to the manual, it will support PC3200 non-ECC DDR Ram and also Dual Channel DDR400.
I have been running an Athlon XP 2000+ for a couple of years without any problems. I don't game that much anymore but I am starting to use the system for multimedia and DVD authoring so a faster CPU is becoming a consideration. If I had scads of time, I would probably buy a new mobo and an Athlon64 but swapping out a CPU is relatively painless and fast.
Due to the mobo FSB limitation, the logical upgrade path would be a 333 MHZ FSB Barton. But, I seem to recall that to get the maximum benefit of an nForce2 mobo, you would want the CPU FSB and memory to be the same speed but I'm not sure. So, there are some questions here:
1. Is it preferable to run the CPU FSB and memory at the same speed?
2. If yes, to the previous, is it possible to manually lower the clock speed of this memory or will it default automatically to the SPD?
3. If I underclock the memory as PC2700/ dual channel DDR333, can I use more agressive memory timings?
Bottom line, is this memory good choice?
Just have to love this price battle they are having with this quality value RAM. I bought mine for $100 after rebate from Fry's this past BF and already got the rebate back. But, at these prices without a rebate to deal with I may have to splurge and get a GB for my other PC and HTPC.
Yea, and the kingmax has nowhere the compatibility of this ram. I also think the kingmax is the slower, high-density type.
The price war is crazy I tell you! Today
Newegg: $100 shipped
Zipzoomfly: $100 shipped
CheifValue:$98.99 shipped
This ram is compatible with ALL chipsets/systems. It even says it on the package, lol. I can validate that because I have it running in an nForce2 Ultra mobo and an i865 mobo with zero problems. That Asus says PC3200 support because it will use 333 fsb, but a multiplier to run the ram async at 400MHz. Some people have reported getting the older nForce2 chipsets to run at 400 fsb with a little extra chipset voltage....which your mobo may or may not support. Ideally, if you can get your fsb to 200 (400 effective), then you could set your ram mult to 1:1 to run the ram in sync.
1) Yes, otherwise wait-states have to be introduced which slows everything down.
2) RAM clock speed is controlled by the system bus speed and ram divider. The only way to change ram speed at a constant bus speed is to change the multiplier in BIOS. However, the ideal situation is a ram multiplier of 1 (1:1).
3) Maybe, all you can do is try. I'm running at 400MHz CAS2 on my nForce2 system with zero problems.
BadThad,
Thanks for the reply. If I understand your response correctly, I cannot set the ram speed manually other than through a divider, in this case a timing of 83%. In other words, the ram is actually running at 400 internally but it appears to the system to be running at 333MHz. Am I better off buying PC2700 ram so that it will run a 1:1 ratio?
I am now beginning to wonder if there is little difference between running the 3200 at 2700 or trying to push the existing 2100 to 2700. The current memory is a couple of sticks of 256MB Crucial which is OK quality. I was wanting to push the memory out to 1GB but may just order the CPU upgrade and take my chances.
Apologize to all as I realize this is starting to become OT.
Thanks for the reply. If I understand your response correctly, I cannot set the ram speed manually other than through a divider, in this case a timing of 83%. In other words, the ram is actually running at 400 internally but it appears to the system to be running at 333MHz. Am I better off buying PC2700 ram so that it will run a 1:1 ratio?
I am now beginning to wonder if there is little difference between running the 3200 at 2700 or trying to push the existing 2100 to 2700. The current memory is a couple of sticks of 256MB Crucial which is OK quality. I was wanting to push the memory out to 1GB but may just order the CPU upgrade and take my chances.
Apologize to all as I realize this is starting to become OT.
Mac, I'd pick this stuff up. $100 shipped is a beautiful sight. Before I received my package via fedex yesterday, i was running 2x256 PC2700 @ 166mhz with my Barton @ 11x200. yeah, the ram was running at 83% of the FSB, but it was still pretty quick. I'd imagine a PC3200 stick running at 166mhz with a divider would perform pretty darn close to a PC2700 stick running 1:1.
Basically, at this price, you've gotta upgrade. My 512mb was starting to not cut it with Firefox, iTunes, MSWord, and Outlook open. This is some quality ram that should last you a while, maybe even through another build or two.
Basically, at this price, you've gotta upgrade. My 512mb was starting to not cut it with Firefox, iTunes, MSWord, and Outlook open. This is some quality ram that should last you a while, maybe even through another build or two.
I have kingston valueram, it reads as samsung in Cpu-z, I pushed it to 225 and stopped, but I really didnt need the increase so I put it back to stock. Cosair and Kingston are almost identical. I dont know if this is any help.
Any reason why this would be so cheap? It's not like only one site has it on sale. 1st zipzoomfly, then newegg and it keeps dropping.
Is something going on? Can this drop any more?
Is something going on? Can this drop any more?
So you guys are saying that even though this isn't speced that way, that it can do DDR400 at cas 2? If it can't what's the current best deal on something that can? The mushkin?
Mark
Mark
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