- Joined
- Jan 12, 2001
- Location
- Kansas, USA
I bought some inexpensive DDR2 RAM to use as extra backup. On a whim I bought 2X512 Samsung DDR2-3200 for less than $100 a stick and slapped them into my Abit AA8XE mobo running in dual channel mode. These are single sided modules and use BGA chips, so I guessed they would O/C pretty good and I was right.
Rated specs are DDR2-400 and 3-3-3-8 at 1.8v, but I have them running at DDR2-533 and 4-4-4-8 at 1.9v. Kids, that's PC2-4200 speed for the price of PC2-3200 RAM. Pretty good stuff, I'm impressed.
I even hit 275 FSB using 4-4-4-8 timings and 1.9v in dual channel (but, I didn't stress test them at that speed). Maybe more voltage and/or relaxing the timing again might squeeze more out of them. For the price you will not find better DDR2 RAM, especially using high quality Samsung chips.
Rated specs are DDR2-400 and 3-3-3-8 at 1.8v, but I have them running at DDR2-533 and 4-4-4-8 at 1.9v. Kids, that's PC2-4200 speed for the price of PC2-3200 RAM. Pretty good stuff, I'm impressed.
I even hit 275 FSB using 4-4-4-8 timings and 1.9v in dual channel (but, I didn't stress test them at that speed). Maybe more voltage and/or relaxing the timing again might squeeze more out of them. For the price you will not find better DDR2 RAM, especially using high quality Samsung chips.
