spectek ram?

hans007

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has anyone ever used spectek ram. I inadvertantly won an auction on ebay for 4 256mb pc2100 spectek dimms (some guy had outbid me so i had bought ram elsewhere, but he canceled i guess).


anyways, i was wondering if anyone has used this brand. i am now stuck with 4 spectek dimms, not to mention 2 generic micron dimms, and a generic samsung dimm, which i dont think i can fit into my board that only has 2 dimms slots. anyone know if these can hit pc2700 speeds?
 

Budman

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I have 2 sticks of those myself,from what I hear they are micron chips.

I have taken mine all the way up to 172mhz for a short while,it's good ram.



Look at the bottom of this LINK.



<< © 2002 Micron Technology, Inc. All rights reserved >>

:)
 

Kingofcomputer

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1 year warranty for Spectek vs life-time for Crucial,
no CL2 PC133 for Spectek.
Crucial sells direct (though newegg also sells Crucial ram now) vs Spectek sells thru retailers only like buycom.
 

glenn1

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I've had mixed results with their sdram, no clue on their DDR. Spectek made tons of pc-66 for Compaq and other big boxmakers, and i've never had any luck getting it to work in any other board. I also have a couple of sticks of their pc-133 running perfectly happy in both my girlfriend's and brother's boxes i built for them (one with a K7S5A board, the other with a Shuttle AK12), but they're both running at stock speeds, with cas timings set to 3-3-3 rather than 2-2-2, when i try to crank up the cas timings it crashes the system on bootup. Needless to say, i didn't even bother trying to crank the FSB and didn't consider those two sticks to be overclocker friendly, but they're fine for basic non-overclocker systems. Both of those pc-133 sticks had Samsung chips on them.

My experience may not be the common one, as always, YMMV.
 

nortexoid

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mixed results as well using SDR SDRAM from spectek

just had a 128MB PC133 module go poo on me....the other one in my system is working like a champ tho...but it should since it's rated 133 but running at a mere 105mhz in my system (CL2 tho)

this is what i've heard about spectek: they use micron memory chips salvaged off unusable micron modules (that is, micron PCB + chips)...i can't confirm the truth of this, but...

AFAIK, as well, they're under the umbrella of Micron...a sub-company if u will.
 

hans007

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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,45382,00.asp


hmm i just searched for spectek and micron. apparently, spectek was part of micron electronics which has parent company micron technologies. micron elecrtonics was the company that made micronpc.com . anyways they sold micronpc.com so now they are not with microntechnologies, but before selling the pc part off they sold spectek back to micron technologies, so crucial and spectek are part of the same company now. so i guess my hopes of pc2700 speeds can come true still. it also said in another link that they recondition ram, probably taking individual chips off of crucial pcb