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Urgent advice on RDRAM quality??

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oymd

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Aloha to all...here goes..

A friend of mine is willing to trade my 2 Samsung RDRAM modules 64 MB each [ PC800 ]...for two 128 MB modules whose brand is not even written on the modules [ black heatsink..with JAPAN written on them ]...for a little price difference...
i once read that ALL RDRAM is top notch quality and brands only differ in overclocking...i do not intend to overclock at all.....
Should i do the switch??

P.S. i already tried the 2 128 MB modules in my machine ..totalling 393MB...and my PC works fine...Sandra reported they are CL2-2 with max 411 MHZ....exactly like my 2 samsung modules...except sandra identified them with a number and no brand name.
 
Welcome to the boards. I guess if you don't plan on overclocking, they should work just fine and sounds like a decent swap. There is nothing written on them at all? No serial number? Will your bud let you remove the heat spreader to eximine the chips? I have never done this, so I don't know if it is easy to remove and replace. Samsung does make 90% of the underlying RDRAM chips out there. If you tested them and Sandra reports no errors and expected scores, I say go for it.

LJ
 
thanks for your reply..

btw...it says on the new modules: 40....and on the old samsung ones: 45...
does that stand for milliseconds??...and whats the use of faster modules??
 
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