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- Kansas, USA
I'm building a budget rig for a friend (as per orders from his wife). Found new cheap 2X512 Kingston Value RAM from a forum member that was $31 cheaper than what newegg.com charges for this same exact RAM.
They are remarked chips (D3208DL3T-5), so I really don't have any idea what the IC's are and frankly don't care as long as it would run at least 200 FSB in dual channel in a P-4 system. The seller was nice enough to test it at 200 FSB for me before I bought it.
RESULTS: It does DDR400 speed at 2.5v with SPD timings. I was able to hit a max stable speed of 225 FSB (DDR450) using 2.7v and 2.5-4-4-7 timings. It does DDR434 speed at 2.6v and 2.5-3-3-6 timings (kids, that's PC3500 specs). Not bad for very cheap PC2700 RAM (your mileage may vary).
The system that the RAM is going into has a 2.8C that does an easy 3 gig on default vcore with stock cooling. Since the RAM will easily do 1:1 at 214 FSB no problem, that's what we decided to do. He's tickled pink to get a 3 gig system (and gets to brag to his wife how much of a deal it got).
They are remarked chips (D3208DL3T-5), so I really don't have any idea what the IC's are and frankly don't care as long as it would run at least 200 FSB in dual channel in a P-4 system. The seller was nice enough to test it at 200 FSB for me before I bought it.
RESULTS: It does DDR400 speed at 2.5v with SPD timings. I was able to hit a max stable speed of 225 FSB (DDR450) using 2.7v and 2.5-4-4-7 timings. It does DDR434 speed at 2.6v and 2.5-3-3-6 timings (kids, that's PC3500 specs). Not bad for very cheap PC2700 RAM (your mileage may vary).
The system that the RAM is going into has a 2.8C that does an easy 3 gig on default vcore with stock cooling. Since the RAM will easily do 1:1 at 214 FSB no problem, that's what we decided to do. He's tickled pink to get a 3 gig system (and gets to brag to his wife how much of a deal it got).
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