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Dual Channel PC3200 Roundup- Crucial at 232MHz Cas2

nice roundup. hmm, Crucial leads and has the cheapest memory in the roundup for 2 x 256MB config
 
I wonder if Crucial's 512MB sticks do as well as their 256MB? Tweaktown has another memory roundup coming soon, so hopefully they will have more 512MB sticks reviewed.
 
Absolutely amazing, crucial is rated to run cas 3, but they ran it at 2-2-2-5! Take that Corsiar XMS-LL🙂! BTW for the overclocked benchmarks, what Cas latencies were they running? Still 2-2-2-5?
 
Originally posted by: Lyfer
Absolutely amazing, crucial is rated to run cas 3, but they ran it at 2-2-2-5! Take that Corsiar XMS-LL🙂! BTW for the overclocked benchmarks, what Cas latencies were they running? Still 2-2-2-5?
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Yes, for the overclocked benchmarks they were running Cas 2-2-2-5 at 2.8V.
Looks like Tweaktown had double sided sticks which ran tighter timings, and Extreme Overclocking had single sided sticks which liked looser timings.
 
I do wish they had tested at stock VDimm as well, as some DRAM tends to see a degredation in overclockability at higher voltages.
I'd also have been interested in seeing some results with lightened DRAM latency timings, at times it can be worth trading latency for bandwdith depending upon the application usage/platform utilized/specific latency/bandwidth figures achieveable.
 
My friend has a pair of Corsair XMS 3500 P at 238 w/ 2-3-3-6, 2.9V. They're out of my budget though.
 
No point in running at 2-2-2-5.. that is unless you like HD corruption. 2-2-2-6 will give you less problems and theres no difference in performance.
 
So, I'm about to buy ram...
My main concern is that even though the crucial ran at 464 CL2 for that guy, its only rated for pc3200 & CL3. So if mine shows up and the best it can do is what its rated for... I'm screwed. However, the buffalo ram is rated for CL2.5 at pc3700... so even if that only runs spec I'll be satisfied... Has anyone else used either of these modules?
 
You have a 30 day "satisfaction guaranteed" warranty with crucial. So they'll replace it or refund you, but you may have to pay shipping back to them. If you buy 256MB crucial, it looks like the double sided sticks are the ones to get.
 
Oh yea thats another thing, I'm buying 512mb modules, and that guy tested 256mb crucial & 512mb buffalo.
I'm gonna go ahead and get the buffalo... $99 from newegg
 
Wow...

Just out of curiosity, has anyone tried 2x512 Crucial PC3200 on Abit NF7-S ? How'd it go? 😉

😀
 
hrmmm. I was just looking over at AMDForums and a reply to one of the threads there about this review interested me.

One person said that the Crucial memory that they used in this review was actually Samsung memory chips on a Crucial PCB with Crucial label, however the ones that you buy from Crucial will be Micron chips, therefore you would get much different numbers than this.

Anyone care to comment on this?
 
Originally posted by: joshg
hrmmm. I was just looking over at AMDForums and a reply to one of the threads there about this review interested me.

One person said that the Crucial memory that they used in this review was actually Samsung memory chips on a Crucial PCB with Crucial label, however the ones that you buy from Crucial will be Micron chips, therefore you would get much different numbers than this.

Anyone care to comment on this?
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lol, i knew there was something goin on. there is not way crucial pc3200 can run 464 @ 2-2-2-5
 
Who knows... Anyway, I sent an email to Shawn Baker (author of the TT review) in hopes that he can clarify this particular question for me. Let's hope that he gets back to me soon! 😀

Edit: Oh yeah, and don't worry, I did mention to him that we would like to see comparisons of 2x256 and 2x512 modules for each brand in his next installment! (In addition to other things, such as specific brands that I was interested in seeing join the fray for next time 😀 ).
 
OK time to quench the rumors. 😀

Q'n'A with Shawn Baker (snippets of email conversations modified into Q/A format 😉 ):


Q: "[...] the chips on your modules were definitely Micron chips, then?"
A: "Yes they are Micron 🙂 "

Q: "Also, I noticed you had double-sided memory (16x16MB instead of 8x32MB), and in your review you were able to hold tighter timings and higher speeds then the other reviews I have seen where they used single sided 8x32MB modules."
A: "Yes mine where double sided and usually single sided does give better results but I can't really explain it 🙂 "



Hmm.. Okay, so these definitely were Micron chips on the memory. I can't really figure out why he got such good OC results whereas those using single sided modules could not go quite as high as he? Could it possibly be because he was running them @ 2.8v while the other reviews left theirs at default?
 
Originally posted by: joshg
OK time to quench the rumors. 😀

Q'n'A with Shawn Baker (snippets of email conversations modified into Q/A format 😉 ):


Q: "[...] the chips on your modules were definitely Micron chips, then?"
A: "Yes they are Micron 🙂 "

Q: "Also, I noticed you had double-sided memory (16x16MB instead of 8x32MB), and in your review you were able to hold tighter timings and higher speeds then the other reviews I have seen where they used single sided 8x32MB modules."
A: "Yes mine where double sided and usually single sided does give better results but I can't really explain it 🙂 "



Hmm.. Okay, so these definitely were Micron chips on the memory. I can't really figure out why he got such good OC results whereas those using single sided modules could not go quite as high as he? Could it possibly be because he was running them @ 2.8v while the other reviews left theirs at default?
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so can anyone replicate those results since they're Micron chips too?😀
if it's really good, this may be the Crucial PC2100 overclockers all over again😀
 
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