Kingmax PC3200 DDR400... sucks?

[Actaeon]

Well, I recently purchased it, its not here yet, its on its way... but, after looking up some reviews, they say its a pretty bad piece of ram. Does anyone have any experience with these? How does it run?

Thanks.

 

[zzzz]

It runs at PC3200 but dont expect it to run at cas-2 or to overclock it.

 

[Actaeon]

Specs

I've read mixed reviews, some say it sucks, some say they can hit 200fsb on CAS2.

All the reviews i've read, shows it can run CAS2.

Anyone else have experience?

 

[RalfHutter]

FWIW, I didn't have very good luck with Kingmax 256MB sticks of PC2700 RAM earlier this year. It would error out in Memtest86 at any speeds over about 150MHZ (300MHZ DDR). I tried 4 sticks and none worked. Got some Corsair XMS PC2700 and it runs fine at 170MHZ, cas2.

 

[Actaeon]

Anyone else?

 

[Chad]

Yeah, I'm running it now on a Epox 4g4a and 1.6a P4. FWIW, I got the system at 150fsb @ 2.4ghz and the ram is at CAS 2.5, 6, 2, 2 but the memory is at like 374 (or something like that). My CPU is only 39 degrees Celcius at idle and 50-51 under 100% load (prime95).

I've tried the 160 fsb (memory at 400 which its rated for) with the memory at the slowest settings and the agp/pci "locked" at 66/33 and the system won't boot. Which leads me to think its the memory cause the agp/pci is locked and the CPU runs so cool.

I honestly wish I had gone with some different memory now.

 

[zzzz]

Chad try with 1:1 ram ratio first to rule out cpu.

 

[Chad]

What do you mean?

P.S. I just noticed when booting the Post says PC2700 ram, but I know when I bought this stuff it claimed PC3200! WTF!?!?!?!?! Did the supplier cheat me?

 

[Actaeon]

Chad, after reading a few reviews, one review had that problem, it was because his BIOs wasn't updated.. maybe you should update your bios?

 

[Chad]

Hmmm... ok. Lemmie check if I'm updated.

 

[Chad]

Thanks Actaeon, that fixed it. But the BIOS wasn't on the Epox website. It was some French website... version 2822, but under the description it had that it fixed the problem with incorrectly identifying ram.

 

[Actaeon]

No problem! Glad I could help.

Anyone else have experience with this ram?