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Help, Kingston PC3000, What chip?

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Bassmankr

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Just got some Kingston KHX3000K2/1G from Kingston Direct shop with their recent special price of $195 for a gig (two 512meg sticks). This stuff will do 210FSB @ 2-2-2-11 @2.9v with no errors in Memtest but at 215FSB I get errors on test 5 (about 32 errors per pass). My setup gets flakey after 216 FSB with tight timings and using a set of Kingston PC3200 that I know are BH-5 from looking at the chips. I pulled the spreaders off the new Kingston PC3000 and the chips were remarked Kingston with the following numbers V55446 (or V55322) 0304 P01 D328DW-45. I know that remarked D328DW-45 chips could be either Winbond CH-5 or BH-5. My motherboard will not put out more than 2.9v to the ram to see if more voltage would determine what I have. From the above clues can someone tell if I have gotten CH-5 or BH-5?
 
Congrats, your chips are remarked BH-5 based on the following:

There is a thread at Extreme where this is being "discussed in detail". The concensus there is that if your chips are the DW-45 and have a fab date of before 0318, then its BH-5, after that date it is CH-5. Yours are 0304, therefore should be BH-5. I also found a Winbond List just the other day at another site that has the same cut-off date. Links to the Extreme thread (look at post #22) and the Winbond list are provided for your reading pleasure.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?postid=402392

http://pub.lorenz.bei.t-online.de/winbondlist.htm
 
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