Your experience with G.SKILL kits and latency settings

[BonzaiDuck]

. . . . for kits rated at both DDR2-800 and -1000+ ?

 

[hclarkjr]

i have 4 sticks of these in my system right now, i never tried lowering the latency as they are plenty fast at the factory settings for me. they have been rock steady for me for almost 1 year now.

 

[hclarkjr]

i am curious though as if memory serves i remember few threads started by you bashing gskill pretty hard change of heart?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Oh, sure. I had got too used to a processor that wouldn't clock much past 360 without higher voltage that I was determined not to give it. Meanwhile, I had KNOWN that I needed to bump up the VTT voltage when moving toward 400 Mhz, and I forgot to do it.

How or why I panicked and thought my BSOD's were due to memory, I cannot say. I intercepted my RMA to G.SKILL and had them simply send them back.

I'm only running these at 2.025V "set" and showing 2.04V. We can trickle-down on customer-reviews at reseller sites, but I had seen a few people saying they couldn't tighten the latencies at 800 DDR.

So again, no need to say "I don't get it." They, too, must not have known what they were doing.

Underclocking these and tightening the latencies isn't a problem at all. Tentatively, they're IntelBurnTest-approved at 4,4,4,10 at that voltage. I could trim them further if I bumped up the voltage another notch, but this looks to be about right.

 

[n7]

Need way more info here.

What kits are you talking about?

G.Skill makes a ton of different ones.

IIRC you have one of the 2x2 GB ones; all of the decent 2x2 GB ones are PSC, which usually means 4-4-4 or 4-4-3 up to around DDR2-850, anything more is a nice bonus.

You can usually do a lower tRP on those...so 4-4-3 for lower speeds or for higher speeds, 5-5-4 or some even have done 5-5-3 all the way to well over DDR2-1000.

CAS 5 max will depend on luck/binning...i'd say you'll see anywhere from DDR2-1000 to 1120ish.

With the higher binned kits or some really good luck, you can get all the way to DDR2-1200 (rare).

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: n7
Need way more info here.

What kits are you talking about?

G.Skill makes a ton of different ones.

IIRC you have one of the 2x2 GB ones; all of the decent 2x2 GB ones are PSC, which usually means 4-4-4 or 4-4-3 up to around DDR2-850, anything more is a nice bonus.

You can usually do a lower tRP on those...so 4-4-3 for lower speeds or for higher speeds, 5-5-4 or some even have done 5-5-3 all the way to well over DDR2-1000.

CAS 5 max will depend on luck/binning...i'd say you'll see anywhere from DDR2-1000 to 1120ish.

With the higher binned kits or some really good luck, you can get all the way to DDR2-1200 (rare).

I should've been more specific. This is a "PQ" 2x2GB kit of DDR2-1000. A lower tRP means I can drop tRC a notch. [That's good.] If I could knock down tRCD a notch, then also for tRAS and tRC. I really don't have ambitions for dropping the CAS latency below 4 for these at 800 Mhz.

I have some headroom for increasing RAM voltage within warranty spec. I think I said that before.