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=Warm/Hot= 1 gig pc 3200 corsair Value Ram

I'd call this "warm" at best. I ordered a gig of Corsair VS from ZZF for my parents' Dell like 4 months ago, and it was under $50 shipped. Considering that for like $30 more than the price of 2 Gigs of this you can get a 2GB dual channel kit of G. Skill Extreme or Patriot LLK, I would definitely only consider this if I were upgrading from 256 MB of PC2100 or something.
 
Originally posted by: douglasb
I ordered a gig of Corsair VS from ZZF for my parents' Dell like 4 months ago, and it was under $50 shipped.
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That was for 2x512MB sticks.

Considering that for like $30 more than the price of 2 Gigs of this you can get a 2GB dual channel kit of G. Skill Extreme or Patriot LLK, I would definitely only consider this if I were upgrading from 256 MB of PC2100 or something.
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That 30 bucks more is an AFTER REBATE price. Comparing apples to apples here, this is about 60 bucks less. Not everybody likes rebates.

As far as the offerings from G.Skill or Patriot, the lower latencies and heat spreaders are nice, but have you actually researched the performance differences between CAS 3, CAS 2.5, and CAS 2? MARGINAL at best.

Moral of the story: Buy the cheap name brand stuff and buy as much of it as you can.
 
After 2 years, I'm still a bit confused about Dual Channel.

I understand how it works (like RAID for memory), but the Dual-Channel marketing stuff throws me off.

Is Dual-Channel just a motherboard thing (like RAID - independent of the hard drives) or is it necessary that the RAM sticks also be Dual-Channel capable?

Basically, if I go and buy two of these sticks, will they run in Dual Channel config?
 
Yes they will run dual channel if your motherboard supports dual channel. AFAIK the RAM should be similar if not identical but I am not positive. I am sure the experts out here at ATHDs can do a better job that me. Any help on this?
 
My motherboard (Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe) is so picky, I don't even want to try running memory in Dual-Channel mode where the sticks are different anyway.

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to run two non-identical sticks of RAM (as long as they have the same timing and voltage requirements and the like) conceptually, but there probably are quirks of which I am ignorant.

Thanks for the confimation!
 
THIS IS FREAKING HOT!!! This VS1GB400C3 1gb PC3200 is on sale $69 at Fry's until tomorrow. My friend bought one and he asked me to test it for him. Guess what, the chips use Samung UCCC. So I removed my 2x1GB OCZ Extreme PC4000 (running at 270 Mhz stable which I bought for $180 this week) to test the corsair value. It was memtest+ stable at 270Mhz at 3-4-4-8 matching my OCZ. So I run to Fry's and bought two sticks got both have UCCC. Wahooo! Better deal than my OCZ and much cheaper than the Corsair XMS series which uses the same UCCC, newegg sells 2GB kit for $217. I am guessing the 2GB XMS PC4000 series comes from the batch as the value series, corsair just picked the UCCC ones and tested them to run at 250 Mhz and slapped heatsiknks.

I might go back and empty Fry's supply. Good Luck hunting for these infamous UCCC chips, they are the best 1GB overclocking chips. TCCD are the best 512MB overclocking chips.
 
Testing Results :
2x1GB G.Skill Extreme PC4000 UCCC VS 2x1GB Cosair VS UCCC

CAS 3-4-4-8 at 2.65 V on Abit IC7-G P4 3.0E 1:1 CPU:MEM

G.Skill = max stable dual channel 263 Mhz
Corsair VS = max stable dual channel 270 Mhz

LOL! The Corsair beats my expensive G.Skill. But who knows, it might be my setup. My IC7/P4 3.0E tops out at 270 Mhz 1:1. Cant go any further without risking burning my P4, max vcore is 1.5V, i am too scared to apply more than 1.5V. I wish I had an A64 system so I can test if these modules can hit 300 Mhz. Makes me want to buy an a64 at Frys just one block away from me.

The PCB boards are different. My G.Skill PCB ID starts with 'B', corsair starts with 'D'. GO figure. Batch number on the Samsung ICC chips is 546 if that matters.
 
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