Kingston ValueRam 2700

I heard a couple weeks ago that this is put together using BH-6 chips. Is that still true? Also, do the 512mb sticks also use BH-6 chips? Although they don't get to high fsb's as easily as the BH-5, it seems that if you pump some voltage in the BH-6 they are still good OC chips.

For that matter, has anyone gotten BH-6 in anything other than high-end/semi-high end memory?

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the bh5 are pretty much picked over but the bh6 are still around in some numbers cause muskin's usin them in their 222 special. i picked up a couple of kingston valueram sticks pc2700 (bh6) havent had time to test both. but one of them runs at least to 240 at 3.08 vlts...now that aint bad

flapperhead said:

the bh5 are pretty much picked over but the bh6 are still around in some numbers cause muskin's usin them in their 222 special. i picked up a couple of kingston valueram sticks pc2700 (bh6) havent had time to test both. but one of them runs at least to 240 at 3.08 vlts...now that aint bad

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Yeah, I've heard good things about the BH-6, but what I'm really wondering is that if anyone has gotten pc2700 value ram recently that *isnt* BH-6? Did you get 512mb sticks or 256?

billobob0 said:

Yeah, I've heard good things about the BH-6, but what I'm really wondering is that if anyone has gotten pc2700 value ram recently that *isnt* BH-6? Did you get 512mb sticks or 256?

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Yup,

I have Mosel chips on mine, 3 weeks old. it's 512 mb of PC2700 Valueram, running @ 209 with 2.5-3-3-11 timings as I type this.

Pretty good stuff eh? And I think it is really the cpu cooler that is holding me back at the moment....

I have 512MB of pc2700 kingston value ram about 3 weeks old also, but I didnt look what chips are on them, and probably wont till I clean my pc out this weekend, so i'm not to much help till then. I'm guessing most of the recent sticks use Mosel.

billobob0 said:

Yeah, I've heard good things about the BH-6, but what I'm really wondering is that if anyone has gotten pc2700 value ram recently that *isnt* BH-6? Did you get 512mb sticks or 256?

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Kingston uses many differant types of chips on their Value-RAM memory. You can't be sure of what chip you will receive unless A) you check yourself, or B) someone else checks.

There are relatively few sticks of Kingston Value-RAM PC-2700 in the market with Winbond BH-6 chips. The few people with sticks that have Winbond BH-6 chips have gotten stock that were assembled between 2002 and mid-year 2003.

Most sticks of Kingston Value-RAM PC-2700 do NOT have Winbond BH-6 chips in it.

Hynix BT-D43 chips are more commonly found in Value-RAM PC-2700, but there are also several others.

ive seen quite a few samsung micron and hynix 6ns stuff besides the winbond on the pc2700. but ive yet to see any bt-d43 except on their pc3200...

Yeah, I've heard good things about the BH-6, but what I'm really wondering is that if anyone has gotten pc2700 value ram recently that *isnt* BH-6? Did you get 512mb sticks or 256?

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Interesting you should ask. I am in Japan, and I actually saw a Kingston PC2700 ValueRam stick, 512 MB, with BH-5 in it! It looks to me to be a very late stick, as it was Made In China. The BH-5 in it was 'made' 46th week of 2003. I might have got it, 'cept there was only one stick at around $90. Moreover, 2003 vintage BH-5 doesn't perform as well as the original 2002 run (my opinion anyway), so I passed on the stick.

Something is fishy as Corsair insists Winbond has not made BH-5 in 2003! I doubt Winbond would flat out lie to such a big manufacturer. I'm wondering whether the 2003-marked BH-5 is leftover stuff from 2002. Corsair claims they cherry-picked 40% of the 2002 production. Maybe 0330 means the chips were MARKED for distribution in 2003, heh. Only Winbond knows: did they actually do a BH-5 production run in 2003???

Not to thread jack but, how does one find out what chip they have?

As far as I know, all the cheaper ValueRam PC2700 do not use heatspreaders. That's why I noticed the Winbond -5 chips on this stick. They had 5 other sticks but they had Infineon ICs on them.

The Kingston HyperX have heatspreaders so you can't see the ICs. I have some KHX3000 and I don't know if they are BH-5 or BH-6. They seem to be BH-5 as they don't like 2-2-2-6.

I know a few of the real early PC2700 ValueRam had BH-5 but I'm surprised to see it on Made in China sticks. I'm positive I saw 0346 on it too. Latest BH-5 I know of in 2003 was week 38 or so.