What is the best RAM IC?

[RedDragonXXX]

TCCD/TCC5 all the way

 

[WarriorII]

I haven't tried them all.

I can not give you an unbiased opinion.

<- no vote.

 

[SolidxSnake]

Ever seen ram do 290 at 2.5-3-3-5 or lower? I have.

BH-5 for me.

 

[ropey]

TCCD/TCC5.

Its the only stuff that can run 220 2-2-2-5 and 280 2.5-3-3-7.

Totally agree

 

[jcw122]

Micron -5B C no question about it. TCCD and UTT are nice and all, but they both have their trade offs (be it timings or voltage). The micron did high FSB speeds with 2.5-2-2- or 3-2-2 timings at all at 3.2V or less

where can u find this stuff?

 

[JoT]

BH5 for the win. I've been using it for a while, and have never run better RAM.

 

[CCUABIDExORxDIE]

where can u find this stuff?

crucial value ram has it, OCZ's EB pc3700 used it. Crucial value ram is your best bet though. you might even get -5b G's, which produce better clocks then -5b C's. however these ics get HOT! hotter then bh-5 and ch-5 and UTT. so you need a fan or GOOD airflow over em.

 

[felinusz]

where can u find this stuff?

The Micron chips were used in OCZ's "EB" (Enhanced Bandwidth) memory series.


EDIT: CCUABIDExORxDIE beat me to it

 

[jcw122]

crucial value ram has it, OCZ's EB pc3700 used it. Crucial value ram is your best bet though. you might even get -5b G's, which produce better clocks then -5b C's. however these ics get HOT! hotter then bh-5 and ch-5 and UTT. so you need a fan or GOOD airflow over em.

damn that sounds like some wicked hot stuff lol.

 

[Eldonko]

Out of the list (since I have used all the chips mentioned) TCC5 would be the best in both stability and speed. Micron would be the worst.

In order:

TCC5
BH-5
TCCD
BH-6
UTT
CH-5
-5B G
CH-6
-5B C

TCC5 is the BEST, better than TCCD, BH-5 and everything else? I heard the "its the same" argument but how can a lower binned RAM be better lol. I would like to hear your reasoning for that.

 

[CCUABIDExORxDIE]

damn that sounds like some wicked hot stuff lol.

my friend got one of the 1 gig sticks, with -5b d's on em, they are even hotter then -5b c/g's. and he has a TORNADO blowing over em, and they still get hot! the 1 gig sticks oc quite well though, on his s754 platform they clocked up to 250 3-3-3-8 with 2.8v. This ram is soo weird, its like TCCD and Bh-5 got wasted and made a baby. its the only ram that has the TRP and TRCD lower then thier cas latency.

 

[NinjaZX6R]

Why did I vote BH-6? Well, because I have never hit a higher memory speed than what I have on my Mushkin Special 2-2-2 sticks. 271mhz at 2-2-2-8 is worthy of being the best in my opinion.

-Collin-

 

[9mmCensor]

I haven't tried them all.

I can not give you an unbiased opinion.

<- no vote.

true that.

 

[makshim]

Micron -5B C no question about it. TCCD and UTT are nice and all, but they both have their trade offs (be it timings or voltage). The micron did high FSB speeds with 2.5-2-2- or 3-2-2 timings at all at 3.2V or less

QFT. I own a pair, talk about bandwidth city!

 

[raven]

BH-5 has got my vote!
They have been great to me.
Plus, ive seen some of this stuff do insane timmings back in its day!, timmings which i havent seen repeated yet.!


Raven

 

[Quest For Speed]

TCCD is good but my BH5 is better when I juice them up.

 

[9mmCensor]

QFT.

whats that mean?

 

[cotdt]

BH5 is best

BH5 is way better than TCCD. My BH5 @ 3.7V does 293MHz 2-2-2-5 stable and I've been running it since forever. It will kick TCCD ***.

 

[makshim]

whats that mean?

Quoted For Thought.

 

[Ri0]

BH-5.

There is a reason I bought 6 sets of the 1GB Mushkin over a year ago.