Samsung -TCB3 C,D, or E?

I currently have a 256 meg stick of samsung C-TCB3. It does 200 at 2.5-2-2-11, without a problem in an NF7s 2.0.

I would like to go dual channel, and get another stick. A couple questions I have.

1. I am looking on ebay and have seen several sticks. Would it matter if I got a C, D, or E revision of the TCB3? All I want is [email protected] in dual channel, or possibly slightly more(~210).

2. Which is best? C, D or E?

3. If I scrap the piece I have, and go with 1 gig(2X512), is there really that much of a performance increase by being able to not have a swap file in windows?

I have a mobile 2600+ on the way, and I want to get ready

Thank you!
John

Why are you getting slow ram like this? I would opt for some ram with bh-5 or 6 chips. If you want samsung though get chips with EYCB3 at the end

Steve

the d,e rev of tcb3 pc2700 were used in the original ocz pc3700, so it could possibly be some nice ram

flapperhead said:

the d,e rev of tcb3 pc2700 were used in the original ocz pc3700, so it could possibly be some nice ram

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Nope it wasn't

K4H280838EYCB3

C is by far the best. D and E revisions probably won't be able to run 200 at decent timings with the volts you can give.

flapperhead said:

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1843&p=1

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Yah sorry had a brain fart or something. The OCZ sticks had e chips on em

Shade00 said:

C is by far the best. D and E revisions probably won't be able to run 200 at decent timings with the volts you can give.

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I tried C and D,With D chips i can't boot on winxp above 180, with C chips i could boot on windows at 200, but memtest gives a lot of errors.
If you are looking for cheap and good memory i recommend you buffalo with windbond ch5 chips. Bh5 and Bh6 are better than ch5 but more expensive and hard to find.

im afraid to say but it may be a bios or chipset issue- make sure u get as much info as possible. cause the worst thing to do is to keep looking for ram when the stuff u got is good, and the real prob is compatibilty probs...