I also just received a 512MB stick of DTL (web site does say CTL, but I didn't realize the apparent significance when I ordered). See the thread titled "Who's got samsung pc2700?" for some of my posts about this memory.
Anyway, I've gotten Win2000 installed now on my new system (typing this on it now). Spent nearly two days just booting memtest86 off of floppy, experimenting with different FSB and memory speeds. I installed Win2000 with FSB of 133 (2.1GHz core for my 1.6A) and timings set to 4:5 (333 DDR), 2.5-3-3-6 just to minimize the chance of a bad install. No problems and ran Prime95 overnight (7+ hours) and SuperPI to 32M digits. No errors or lockups
My experiments with memtest86 showed that even at 333 DDR I had to run 2.5-2-2-5 (I think - might have even needed to go more relaxed) for long-term stability on the memory tests. Seemed to need 2.5-3-3-6 (at least the 3-3 part) starting at 340 or so. With 2.5-3-3-6 I could go to perhaps 388 DDR with some memory instability, but 375 DDR seems to be the practical limit. More voltage does seem to help somewhat (BG7 limited to 2.8V = 2.74V actual as read by BIOS). I've done some burnin now and it
seems like the memory works better, but that could just be due to my getting familiar with the BIOS settings.
My 1.6A looks good for 170 FSB or better. This is only from the standpoint of booting and running memtest86, so running stability tests in Windows may show the real limit of my CPU. What's really limiting me seems to be my memory
I too love Newegg. Ordered almost a complete system worth of parts early morning and they shipped that day with everything getting here fine. But now I'm faced with the decision of whether to RMA this RAM. Can't say that I'm really ****ed, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have ordered the Samsung from them.
BTW - memtest86 version 3.0 tests #5 and #6 seemed to be the toughest on my system. I learned to run those to get a quick indication of my memory being pushed too far. That's a damn fine program.