Mem chips and A64

[11427]

Curious if anyone has found that the old BH5 chips do not do as well with the new A64's. Are the new TCCD's really better than the BH5, or about the same?

 

[Duvie]

I seem to recall they can do well but take shiteloads of vdimm and only a few offer the type of increases needed....TCCD can run high speeds and tight timings and do it at a lower vdimm

 

[res0n0xg]

basically you should go bh-5 if you have a board than can supply upwards of 3.5V to the memory or have the OCZ ddr booster and a compatible motherboard, if you don't have a board that can supply enough voltage or the booster and a compatible motherboard then go with tccd memory. bh-5 can do high fsb's at very tight timings with enough voltage, most can get about 250 at 222.

 

[sangyup81]

speed for speed, latency for latency, BH5's are better

 

[Sentential]

Originally posted by: sangyup81
speed for speed, latency for latency, BH5's are better

Or UTT if you are willing to fare the voltage

 

[seanp789]

where are u gonna find bh-5's these days?

 

[Sentential]

Originally posted by: seanp789
where are u gonna find bh-5's these days?

You doing, thats kinda the point unless he's getting em from ebay/used. If he really wants low timings he should look at UTT (aka OCZ VX)

 

[Shimmishim]

twinmos is starting to make some of their UTT modules from bh-5 chips...

it's been confirmed over at xtreme...

 

[11427]

Originally posted by: seanp789
where are u gonna find bh-5's these days?

Well,... I pulled a stick from one of my sktA machines. Hit a brick wall at 236 fsb with it,... picked up a new stick of pc4400 today. We'll see where it gets ;-)

 

[sangyup81]

Originally posted by: 11427

Originally posted by: seanp789
where are u gonna find bh-5's these days?

Well,... I pulled a stick from one of my sktA machines. Hit a brick wall at 236 fsb with it,... picked up a new stick of pc4400 today. We'll see where it gets ;-)

How many volts when you hit the brick wall?

 

[fstime]

UTT is pretty much bh-5, we all know UTT or bh-5 with its timmings > tccd even at higher clocks, anyways, you can try OCZ VX or take a risk and getting some twinmos memory, a buddy of mine got UTT with his, cant name the exact model.

EDIT: You need around 3.4 to drive these. No worry because OCZ warranties them up to 3.4 or 3.6 volts.

 

[11427]

Hit the wall with 2.85v. thats as much as the MB allows.

 

[sangyup81]

Originally posted by: 11427
Hit the wall with 2.85v. thats as much as the MB allows.

That's definitely a limitation. Are you using an MSI Neo2 Platinum? I believe the OCZ DDR Booster works with those.

 

[11427]

I am using the Neo2,.... but it was just an upgrade from an old K6 so I really don't need to put too much into it. I picked up a new stick of Mushkin PC4400 today and put the BH5 back where it came from. So far the Mushkin is doing fine at 2.65v and 300 fsb,.... still pushing it up.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

BH-5 if you could supply 3.1V+, or use the DDR Booster. AMD loves low latencies (more than bandwidth).

 

[11427]

Well,.. unfortunately it looks like I have found the limit of my CPU (CBBID 3000+) long before the ram limit.