Buffalo pc3700 CH5's???

[g0dM@n]

I have the micron Buffalo pc3700 512's. I have three of them and they just plain out suck on my NF7-S and my brother's NF7-S!! These are the mT -5B C chips. They cant hit over 223fsb in single channel 1x512, and they can't do 2x512 dual 200fsb.

Buffalo Tech offered me Winbond CH-5's. Should I RMA it back to tblmemory.com for a refund or swap them for some CH-5's? I need to know within the hour.

Please just give me a brief message... perhaps a "refund" or "CH-5" would be a good response? :)

[aldamon]

Nothing wrong with Buffalo CH-5. Good stuff.

[flapperhead]

seems like amd chipsets respond better to cas 2/2.5 and the newer ch5 is supposed to run real well at these latencies

[wannaoc]

I also am waiting on those sticks for an RMA from them. I was told they run 250 2,2,2,X in a DFI board so they should be pretty good. I would go for them, at the very least they can't be worse than the Micron.

[man_utd]

Newer CH-5? Has CH-5 not been out of production for quite a while?

[K4mui]

No, the new CH-5 can do pretty good- if you think that they're still CH-5 ;)

Some guys at xtremesys did achieve something like 2-2-2-11-1t up to 220MHz, but they all used over 3.2V... not really what I personally like

[g0dM@n]

These CH-5's I'm getting are leftovers that BuffaloTech held onto for RMAs. The guy at Buffalo, Bruce, said that the BH-5's were stopped in October (which he's has ZERO of) and the CH-5's were stopped in March.

He said he held onto the CH-5's as replacements for RMAs.

Hey, wannaoc, you had the same exact micron pc3700 buffalo 512's as me? I had three. One of them I'm being refunded for, and the other two are going to be replaced. I was told they own on DFI as well, but that they can do tight timings at about 440mhz on ABIT. Tom from TBL memory said that the CH-5's can run like the BH-5's if I pass this certain threshold of voltage if I did a VDimm mod. He said the chips have built-in regulators of some sort to keep it at lower voltage, and once you crack that limit they will "be like BH-5's." That's what he said... I'm not so positive, but yeah they handle 250mhz 2-2-2 on DFI's, BuffaloTech said.

[KKAT]

I have some CH-5 over 3+ volts they are really suppose to fly. I'm limited to 2.75, but I think I'm going to buy the OCZ DDR Booster. Not bad chips though.

[wannaoc]

My boards are volt modded so I have no problem running high volts in those babies. :D I did forget to mention that he did say it woud take 3.3V to achieve the speeds I said above but thats pretty normal. I can't wait for them to get here! I haven't had some good ram in quite a while.

[g0dM@n]

So you also had the Buffalo PC3700 512's? Where did you get them?

[Polargoat]

i got some buffalo pc3700 winbond from newegg today, supposedly bh5

[K4mui]

i got some buffalo pc3700 winbond from newegg today, supposedly bh5

Hardly.
Newegg would be overrun if it still had BH-5

[g0dM@n]

i got some buffalo pc3700 winbond from newegg today, supposedly bh5

I bought two of them. If it's Winbond and it's Buffalo PC3700 then it's DEFINITELY BH-5. If it is not BH-5 then that means it's not Winbond. If it's not Winbond then they labelled it wrong and will have to give back a full refund. If they give back a full refund I only lose out on about $2 to ship it back.

It's worth a shot. Lotta ifs, but worth the shot. I'll let you all know which they are. They will be arriving tomorrow, unless I actually drive to the sort facility to get it. I will post once I find out.

[K4mui]

What a shame that german shops do not say wether it's winbond chips on the modules or not.
Buffalo is not that known here...