What brand of RAM chips does CORSAIR use?

[MichaelD]

I'd imagine Samsung...but I don't know. Ordered a stick of their "PC3200" memory. That should help me get my FSB higher than the 135 I can get now. My Micron PC2100 sticks are great at 133MHz...and that's it, though. Info please.

 

[PliotronX]

I believe you're correct, the CAS2.5 PC3200, CAS2 PC3000, and CAS2 PC2700 all use Samsung chips. The newest CAS2 PC3200 and CAS2.5 PC3200 parts marked "v2.1" use WinBond chips I read somewhere (can't remember). That stick should help you hit >200

 

[MichaelD]

Hey thanks PilotronX. I see I'm not the only loony up early on a Saturday! That stick of memory should be here Tues or Wed...I can't wait. Unfortunately for me, my Shuttle AK35GTR DOES NOT have a 1/5th divider. so I'm going to have to be very careful with that FSB. I checked, and a newer BIOS for my board doesn't say anything about adding that divider.

On another note, I bought that Daytona GF4! Got it from the site you linked me to. Hey, $135 for a reference-design 4200? Sounds good to me. Thanks.

 

[PliotronX]

It's usually eerily peaceful on mornings of weekends as everyone is snoozing away That memory rocks, set 'er timings to 2-2-2-5-1T and she'll beg for more. Sucks about the mobo divider, man I'd hack a BIOS if I knew how... I'm glad I caught your thread on the GF4 to recommend the Daytona, I've heard many great things about it. Folks have been able to get it up to around 300MHz core and 525-610 mem which would be between the Ti4400 and Ti4600 (those things are ripoffs as far as I'm concerned ). Between these upgrades, you'll be getting more frags than I in UT

 

[GT1999]

I have PC3200 CAS2 (Corsair XMS) and it is also the new Winbond chips. It's v1.1 Platinum.

 

[RalfHutter]

If you read the Corsair forums the Ram Guy claims that all the PC3200 stuff uses 6ns Winbond chips, and that any of the XMS3200C2 sticks that say "rev 2.1" are mis-marked. He says all the CAS2 PC3200 RAM is still only rev 1.1.

BTW - This is great RAM. I'm using 2 of the 512MB stcks right now and they replaced 2 of the 512MB XMS2700 sticks that also worked great (but I wanted more speed!!).

 

[Insane3D]

That should help me get my FSB higher than the 135 I can get now.

I wouldn't count on just the ram getting you higher FSB's. My guess is that your CPU is limiting you, not your memory. Micron PC2100 should easily be able to go past 135mhz, you sure it's not your CPU that won't go faster? I hate to see you get super duper memory that is not going to help your problem....