2 gig BH-5, is there any?

-_{MoW}_-Assasi · Oct 22, 2005

Im thinking of selling my ram atm for 2x1 gig BH-5s

Can i find any?
Or do i have to have 4x512?

Edit- Or UTT for that matter

IWasHungry · Oct 22, 2005

*Is wondering as well*

EvilCloudStrife · Oct 22, 2005

No on the BH-5.. heck, good luck finding original BH-5 at 4x512 matched pairs. as for UTT, i dont think so either but i dont know for sure

Super Nade · Oct 22, 2005

No. AFAIK, UTT, B/CH chips do not come in such high densities. The high density chips you see today are not exactly BHx. Bear in mind that Infinion and Winbond have a tech sharing agreement, so one cannot rule out the possibility of a new high density/high voltage chip.

Sjaak · Oct 22, 2005

Nope. I searched hell and heaven for it then went with 4x512.

JoT · Oct 22, 2005

I just plain went with 4x512. I'm probably not going to need more than 2 gigs for a long time. Once I finally do feel the need to move from 2 gigs, it will be DDR2 time.

-_{MoW}_-Assasi · Oct 22, 2005

mhm, whats the best ram that is high voltage like UTT or BH-5 that you can get on the market, and for how much?

And i saw on newegg refurbished Mushkin Redline PC4000, is refurbished ok? coz buying new is kinda expensive

largon · Oct 23, 2005

Winbond BH-5 people know has the following part number:

W942508BH-5

The 25-part means the chip capacity is 256Mbits (32Mbytes). Building a 1GB dimm out of these chips is impossible - because of a quite obvious reason. There are no 512MBit chips built by Winbond.

Infineon builds several 512MBit chips that can be used in 1GB sticks but they don't appear to have any relation to Winbond ICs - oc wise, that is.

-_{MoW}_-Assasi · Oct 23, 2005

i saw on newegg refurbished Mushkin Redline PC4000, is refurbished ok?

mcoleg · Oct 23, 2005

what largon said, didn't make them in 1 gig. on a plus side, bh5 does have less problems running in 4x512 configuration than some others. i ran it on both of my rigs, get to higher fsb than any other 4x512 configurations. still, 2x1GB of whatever's availiable right now could be easier on the memory controller.

JoT · Oct 23, 2005

BH5 is not available on the open market anymore; it's only sold by individuals nowadays. UTT is still available, but I don't know what sticks it's on.

RedDragonXXX · Oct 23, 2005

JoT said:
BH5 is not available on the open market anymore; it's only sold by individuals nowadays. UTT is still available, but I don't know what sticks it's on.

UTT is going out as well.

Mushkin is no longer using them on their XP Redlines but not sure if OCZ still has them on their Gold VX's.

fldrice · Oct 24, 2005

RedDragonXXX said:
Mushkin is no longer using them on their XP Redlines

Mushkin no longer has any Winbond CH quality UTT left for the XP4000 Redline. AFAIK, OCZ has not really commented upon the availability off Winbond UTT ICs.

techun · Oct 24, 2005

..if bh5 is so good..why did the company stop making them..

fldrice · Oct 24, 2005

techun said:
..if bh5 is so good..why did the company stop making them..

Winbond "exited" the dram market.

techun · Oct 24, 2005

shouldve sold how to make them to other people..?

aznkc730 · Oct 24, 2005

i agree. if winbond passed on their knowledge or stayed in the dram market, they would be filthy rich

Dukemurmur · Oct 25, 2005

So what are they now using on the xp4000? i am sure that new ram like bh-5 will be out soon enough and hopefully better...

Duke

JoT · Oct 25, 2005

aznkc730 said:
i agree. if winbond passed on their knowledge or stayed in the dram market, they would be filthy rich

Not really, most of the BH5 that was produced went into crappy Joe 6-Pack machines. We enthusiasts are a very small market.

BadThad · Oct 25, 2005

My question is why are the mfg's so slow to produce FAST 1GB modules? Can nobody make a 512Mb chip that will run at high frequency and fast timings? Apparently, this is as good as it gets:

AnandTech Review of 2GB DC sets

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