Thats the million dollor question right now that everyone wants to know.. The jury is still out on this one. Though some have got to 200FSB= 400 MHz long ago with the Samsung Original sticks that had the CTL models that overclocked well.. Thats pretty hard to find right now cause Samsung is also making a newer model now (They claim is the same) called DTL Rev D chips... Anyways. Those are not the top dogs in overclocking anymore since there not consistantly getting 200 FSB... In my finding after testing 8 of those DTL sticks 4 from an early 0400 batch (0225) and 4 more from a 800+ batch (0227)... They all sucked... 5 out of the 8 got only 170 FSB with max timings and only 2 out of the 8 would go higher at 175FSB max timings.. 1 out of the 8 wouldnt do 166 at max settings... More testing i'm sure would of concluded that, that was a bad stick probably. Alaso the highest i could get the computer to boot with any of those sticks at the slowest timings was 190FSB. I only tested in 5's so it might of gone up to 191-194.
Those tests were taking with a KX7Raid AMD 2100+ unlocked and tested under 1700Mhz (to insure the CPU was not the prob in the testing). G3 TI200 and a 400 WATT Antec 403 model P/S. All tests used the max voltage i could use with the board 1.85v.
Max settings were:
cas2, 4 way, 2-6-2 1T, CPU command at fast
Slowest settings were:
cas 2.5, 4way, 3-6-3 2T, CPU command at normal
Now back to the Samsung chips your lookin at... Dont buy no name Sticks with Samsung chips.. Now you might get lucky but the PCB also makes the difference in overclock as the chips do.. The word out there is dont bother wasting your money.. you want Samsung Original... Thats what people are talking about when ya here about great overclocking with Samsung.. but remeber thats with Samsung Original with CTL REV C chips... Those are very rare... Some do find with the DTL chips though.. .Maybe in a Intel system they can do better then in a AMD system, who knows.
Corsair is basicly the only company i would go right now... With there newest memory out there using new Winbond rev B chips there consistantly hitting 200 FSB with the PC3000 and PC3200 Rev 2.1 sticks.. There expensive though... thats about the only downfall.
Most mem manufacturers out there that sell sticks at PC3000-Pc3200 that had heat spreaders are using Samsung chips on there high quallity PCB.. whcich are good... only prob is that even now there are 2 getting only Samsung DTL chips.. So thats not a great choice at this moment either.
The moderator of this forum just bought a stick of ExtremeDDR and he's saying its using samsung Rev C, CTL chips. He;s testing them out right now and is gona get back with us.. Now if that stick turnes out great... Then thats gona be the new king hehehe.. Mad rush to buy them sticks will be on the rise! Now maybe he got lukcy and where he bought it was just old stock that had CTL chips at the time who knows... Maybe just maybe Extreme is smart and is only putting Samsung CTL chips on there sticks.. Whichi very well could be... In any case, if the ExtremeDDR 3200 comes up gold... then that will be a great choice cause its cheap right now.
You should look down in this forum and find the thread that has eXtremeDDR in it for the full story.. i'm too tierd after all of that typing hehehe...
oh yeah good luck finding some corsair (in Canada) if thats the route your going to take... I have heard of atleast one place that someone found though there wasn't many..