GeIL 6400, 4-4-4-12. Is it any good?

[kimandsally]

I see that's why I can't find it on my DS4, maybe someday I might get a 975 but as I can see isn't the 965 supposed to be better?

 

[Pyr0]

isn't the 965 supposed to be better?

IMO it depends what you need

if you have an allendale the 965 is definitely better as the FSB clocks higher

i only bought the p5b deluxe to use for memory testing, but after using it for a bit i really like it

at the moment i've got the bad axe on the bench, waiting for some x1950pro cards for a review

 

[kimandsally]

IMO it depends what you need

if you have an allendale the 965 is definitely better as the FSB clocks higher

i only bought the p5b deluxe to use for memory testing, but after using it for a bit i really like it

at the moment i've got the bad axe on the bench, waiting for some x1950pro cards for a review

I would be interested in what you think to the p5b compared to the bad axe.

 

[Pyr0]

out of the boards i've tried, the P5B is my favourite... (so far)

it's really easy to work with and easily one of the best boards for oc'ing memory

imo the bad axe is a bit awkward to overclock since it raises the fsb using percentages

i'm only really keeping it around for dual gfx use

although crossfire has been enabled on the p5b and 3dmark scores aren't bad, when running actual games, framerates are lower than expected. hopefully newer drivers and/or bios may help *shrug*

 

[kimandsally]

Thanks mate, I think my Gigabyte DS4 is holding me back, I have some cherry picked Geil 6400 with different ram chips to the normal ones, (was a replacement from Geil when I had some 3 sets all DOA) they do around the 1000 mark, then I have the Kingston 8500 which was from the competition on here, must say it's stonking ram can get just over 1100 with 2.15v but both the Geil and Kingston seem that they have more left it's strange with the Gigabyte I'm sure the Asus would get better results.

 

[Pyr0]

I'm not too sure on the DS4 situation, but I know that for the DS3 it's well known that it's not good for running micron based memory....

The DS3 Micron D9 issues have been isolated to a series of sub-timings in the BIOS and a resistor on the board. Changing out this resistor and utilizing the latest beta BIOS resulted in a very stable 7x510FSB with an X6800 and 7x525FSB with a good E6300. Gigabyte will release a final BIOS on or around the 16th of this month that should result in 480~490FSB capability with the majority of D9 modules, anything higher on the current board will require the resistor change.