What do i have?

Stormer · May 22, 2002

ok well i bought a stick of ram today .. due to how cheap it was.. i didnt really think about using it for overclocking too much anyway.. but i look on the black modules of it and it has

samsung written on it with, k4h280838d-tcb3 on them...

is this a stick of samsung? or something else..

Placid · May 22, 2002

The chip specs are here,

http://www.samsungelectronics.com/semiconductors/DRAM/DDR_SDRAM/128M_bit/K4H280838D/k4h2804(08)38d.htm

If there is no samsung sticker on it it's probably not a samsung stick but made by someone else using the samsung chips.

Stormer · May 22, 2002

hey nah it didnt have a sticker... the url you posted didnt work.. but i found it my chip had the exact some code as the ones posted on the SIS website for sticks with samsung components..

http://www.sis.com/ddr/ddr333.htm

Component Part No. matches exactly however.. cant seem to find a module part No. where is that?

Placid · May 22, 2002

It would be on the samsung sticker if it had one.

Stormer · May 23, 2002

is your generic ram the same thing i have heh

Placid · May 23, 2002

No mine has 8, 8x32 chips on it 4 per side.
Your's should have 16, 8x16 chips 8 per side.

Stormer · May 23, 2002

ya it does .. so what does that classify mines as? if yours is "imitation"

Placid · May 23, 2002

Stormer · May 23, 2002

hehe this is some weird stuff.. hopefully i will have some unexpected luck with this

Placid · May 23, 2002

Sounds like the same stuff someone got from z-buy.
Does it say samsung on the pcb somewhere?
If so it's the same stuff at z-buy.

Here is the thread.

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89096

Stormer · May 23, 2002

the only place where it says samsung is on each of those individual chips.. dont know what z-buy is i bought it at a local dealer here.. i am not in the states either

Placid · May 23, 2002

Ok does it say anything on the pcb? Not that it matters just try it out and see what it does

Stormer · May 23, 2002

yep will do just waiting on a heatsink for me to set up the system heh..

tanice the guy who wanted to know if his ram was really samsung in the thread you posted has the same thing as me.. accept one of the values differ.. I have VCA379CA

not sure what you mean by PCB.. btw i do have a sticker.. and the sticker says DDR 333 256MB lol ..

Placid · May 23, 2002

PCB-gerber board- the thing the chips are on.

Stormer · May 23, 2002

hmm cant find anything related to who made it on the pcb.. maybe its too small to see where exactly would that be put.. at the ends? i see MADE in USA and M2202

Placid · May 23, 2002

Usually along the ends.
Made in Usa it must be good stuff then

I am off to bed now, I hope the memory works great for you.

Cya.

Stormer · May 23, 2002

hehe ok..

thanks for the speedy answers felt like an msn conversation gnite

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