Is Geil memory any good?

Chaotic42

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I'm thinking about picking up this memory, but I've never had any dealings with them. They have the only 1.8V 2x2GB memory that I can find on Newegg.

Does anyone here have Geil memory? Is it high-quality? I'd rather go with an additional 2GB of quality memory, so if they're not great, I'm going to skip them.
 

Operandi

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Geil is good, they are actually one of my first choices.

I've used them in 4 or 5 machines now. One set had one bad stick in a dual channel kit but otherwise everything has been great.
 

Agentbolt

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A lot of the motherboards that claim to need 1.8V memory really don't. What motherboard is this?
 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: Agentbolt
A lot of the motherboards that claim to need 1.8V memory really don't. What motherboard is this?

Intel DP965LT. It needs 1.8V memory. I got burned by a mistake on Newegg. I bought some OCZ memory that said it was 1.8V and it turns out that it was 1.9V. It wouldn't POST.
 

RebateMonger

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I guess I have a long memory. In the early days of PC3200 DDR, Geil was selling PC2700-rated modules and memory re-labelled as PC3200. They wouldn't work on a Dell 400SC, for instance, because the Dell read the SPD chip on the memory module and refused to run it overclocked. That makes me not want to buy from Geil.