What DDR500?

[Bateluer]

I was looking at a Corsair 1GB (2x512MB) kit of DDR500 from Newegg for 349 w/ free shipping.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah it's gettin up there with the trade off of lower latencies

 

[Jeff7181]

I was considering some higher speed memory as well, but I decided it's just not worth the cost... especially since half the time you have to run very loose timings. Would be nice to run my XP2500 on a 233 Mhz bus with the RAM in sync, but not if I have to spend $350 on RAM.

 

[Corporate Thug]

i got the geil platinum pc4000, $145 for the 2*256. runs up to 265 mhz @ cas2.5. it is hard to find ddr500 rated @ cas2.5 but geil does it and it is more affordable than almost all ddr500

 

[joe2004]

i got the geil platinum pc4000, $145 for the 2*256. runs up to 265 mhz @ cas2.5.

I can second that. Mine is doing 260x2 = 520 MHz passing Prime95 on IS7, meaning only using 2.8V.
There is a slight problem with Geil though - people are reporting all sorts of things, it looks rather inconsistent memory, I would make sure to purchase from newegg or similar where you can return without hassle. Geil appears to have rather poor quality control, some real crap and some real great sticks. I had luck I guess. In either case much cheaper than OCZ or Corsair.

 

[Soulkeeper]

my mushkin pc3500 is doing 284 2-2-2-6 @2.78v

 

[stardust]

OCZ PC4000 EL Dual Channel Gold ran 265FSB 2.5-4-4-8 with turbo on. Got it after RMA'ing my 3700 DC Gold kit.

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
my mushkin pc3500 is doing 284 2-2-2-6 @2.78v

pics? or is it 5:4 ratio?

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: stardust

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper
my mushkin pc3500 is doing 284 2-2-2-6 @2.78v

pics?

of what the memory ?
or benchmarks ?

geez
i meant 188

 

[joe2004]

my mushkin pc3500 is doing 284 2-2-2-6 @2.78v

Jesus Christ! You gotta be doing something special with those sticks, are they irradiated? 😀
Or is that 142x2? In that case you might want to try some PC 2700 by Samsung, they go higher. 😉

Just received new 2x512 Kingston HyperX BH-5 today, going above 217 on 2-2-2-11 using NF2. For some reason one stick errors out on IS7 doing only 212 at 2-3-2-6. There must be some catch with timings I did not figure out yet.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah i think i can get mine to run about 215 stable at 2-2-2-6 with 2.8v

 

[joe2004]

In my testing I get the best results with 2.9V, right now I am running my new Kingston at 219 doing 2-2-2-11 on NF2.
Some people report that it can go well above 220 with 3.2V. I am just not ready to try, the improvement I get going from 2.9 to 3.0 V is very marginal, perhap 1 FSB, just not worth the chance of damaging memory in a long run.
I had very similar results with Mushkin and Buffalo as well. I am just not successful to go anywhere much higher than 221, which is still awesome. BH-5 rules for the tight timings. 215 sounds about right with 2.8V.