TCCDs?

[SlitheryDee]

I recently purchased this memory.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-220-006&depa=0

After that I found out that there's a chance that I got some lower binned samsung TCCDs on the Brainpower PCB. I'm not going to try to pry off the heatspreaders and look, but I saw a reveiw a couple of days ago on AT which said that you can identify the brainpower PCB by the eight small components on the back side of the memory (other PCBs apparently have many more). The back of my memory looks exactly like the TCCD/Brainpower memory on this page.

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2390&p=2

I assume that this means that I have the Brainpower PCB. My question is can I also assume that I have TCCD chips? Thanks.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Anyone?

 

[deanx0r]

The RAM AT tested is rated 2-2-2-5 and cost almost twice that RAM on newegg.

This is what you are looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-220-033&depa=0

 

[imverygifted]

why don't you see what you can get, your going to at least get the rated speeds if not you can always rma, the chips are tccd on the brainpower pcb so you should have no problem as long as you can feed the memory a few volts. also im not aware that patriot put out that memory on another PCB, look at the xtremesystems ramlist
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=50010

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: deanx0r
The RAM AT tested is rated 2-2-2-5 and cost almost twice that RAM on newegg.

This is what you are looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-220-033&depa=0

I realize that the memory on the AT review page that I cited is different from what I have. The only reason I included that page was because it had a closeup pic of some memory with the brainpower PCB which looks identical to mine. Also, I saw some consumer reviews of the memory that I bought where apparently people DID pry off the heatspreader to reveal a set of TCCDs on the brainpower PCB. Other people got infineon chips, however.

Edit: The reviews I saw are all on the same page as my memory in newegg. (click see more at the bottom)