Is Geil memory any good?

[Chaotic42]

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.

 

[ImDonly1]

I have their ValueRam 2x512MB PC3200. Works fine. Lifetime warranty.

 

[Operandi]

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]

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

 

[Chaotic42]

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]

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.