Kingston memory, DFI, and value...

yoni45

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alright, so from what i've read in some other threads, Kingston doesn't work all too merrily with DFI motherboards... is this true?

meanwhile however, what is the difference between

400-512M 3200 DDR RAM Kingston KVR400x64C25/512 Memory

and

400-512M 3200 DDR RAM Kingston KVR400x72C3A/512 ECC Memory

and as for pricing, how does $71.07 for the x54C25 and $56.65 for the x72C3A sound? (keep in mind these are canadian dollars, components being bought in a canadian market)...

now as for memory timings, from what i'm getting they are preset values depending on RAM but that can be tweaked... does that mean that RAM with higher stock timings are harder to get down to the timings one would want them at?
 
yoni45 said:
alright, so from what i've read in some other threads, Kingston doesn't work all too merrily with DFI motherboards... is this true?

meanwhile however, what is the difference between

400-512M 3200 DDR RAM Kingston KVR400x64C25/512 Memory

and

400-512M 3200 DDR RAM Kingston KVR400x72C3A/512 ECC Memory

and as for pricing, how does $71.07 for the x54C25 and $56.65 for the x72C3A sound? (keep in mind these are canadian dollars, components being bought in a canadian market)...

now as for memory timings, from what i'm getting they are preset values depending on RAM but that can be tweaked... does that mean that RAM with higher stock timings are harder to get down to the timings one would want them at?

DFI being the best are extremely picky about there ram most ram will work on them but it takes alot of tweaking, i know from experience.
 
What to use on DFI:

OCZ

G.Skill

Mushkin

Geil

I think there is more but that is the best list
 
name='kempez815' said:
Hynix chips CAN work with some motherboards. Its just Kingston seems to have a problem with a few boards :mad:

cheap ram dosent work on expensive motherboards ;) you get what you pay for
 
name='kempez815' said:
Kingston generally does not work well with many boards at all. In fact I would never buy that shit :eek:

:rollingla I have kingston in my lappy it works quite well ;)
 
nice timings there :eek: mine are 3-4-4-8 and i have corsair value select 512 m on my gigabyte k 8 ns , 1 things is when i bought it while playing games i sed to get terrible bsods but as soon as dimm +.2 i got rock stable and never got a bsod since then but getting very hot ram :D
 
alright well, that was quite the response :D

now, as for RAM timings, they can be tightened through BIOS as i understand, but what does this depend on when it comes to the RAM itself? if the RAM is advertised with lower timings can it be assumed it can hit a further low with more ease than others with higher stock timings? also, of the 4 timings (2-2-2-5 for example), lowering which of these gets u the best performance gain?
 
Usually High persofmance RAM can get up further with slightly looser timings.

My OCZ Plat Rev 2 PC3200 gets to DDR600 (PC5000, stock: 2-2-2-5) with 2.5-4-3-6 :D
 
kempez815 said:
Usually High persofmance RAM can get up further with slightly looser timings.

My OCZ Plat Rev 2 PC3200 gets to DDR600 (PC5000, stock: 2-2-2-5) with 2.5-4-3-6 :D

how about frags and mine @275 1.5-2-2-5 :D

I believe OCZ got :0wned: there in that catagory ;)
 
i cannot wait to try UTT out on the new expert board. That board is supposed to be optimised for UTT / 2gb kits instead of TCCD. Should be fun messing with the voltages .
 
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