Memory question

[Admiral]

Hi, I want to buy another 128 memory stick but all the retailers here seem to be stuck on PQI (never even heard of them till now). Already tryed 3 sticks but none of them will boot at 133 although they are sold as PC133.
Just found a shop that has some CAS2 Crucial but it's PC100. Will it handle 138 in CAS3 or at least 133 CAS3 ?

[This message has been edited by Admiral (edited 09 March 2001).]

[Claymonkey]

You can buy directly from Crucial.com and they give you free 2 day delivery and you can pick Ram tailored to your motherboard. You can get 256mb pc133 Cas2 Ram for $94.49 and 128 of the same stock for $54.89. This is quality stuff and it should overclock well (and you can bring it down to Cas3 to get even higher)

[Admiral]

Sadly I can only buy local so I have to find one here.

[Claymonkey]

From what I've heard Cas3 pc133 Ram is often just Cas2 Pc100 Ram renamed and Crucial is good stuff. Might be worth a try. Would you be able to return it if it doesn't work?

[This message has been edited by dparadis (edited 09 March 2001).]

[Admiral]

Not sure, I'll ask them tomorrow. They had PC133 but it sold out and they don't know when and if they would get anymore.

I looked at some memory overclocking reviews on the net, most of them give it 133 in CAS3, none above.
As you said it might be worth a shot.

[Greebe]

Admiral, just make sure it's real Crucial (will have label as such)... some generic brands use defective and or low grade micron mem mounted on crap sticks and sell it as the same.

[Admiral]

It has the two stickers on it.
To be safe I'll check on the chips.

[This message has been edited by Admiral (edited 09 March 2001).]

[Rick]

The Crucial stuff is great. I'm running my new 256mb stick of PC133 CAS2 at 150 with CAS2 settings. Running Prime95 to check stabilty but so far so good.

[SCompRacer]

I had some of that memory Greebe is referring to. I mixed it with a stick of Crucial and bad things happened.

That memory utility, ctspd, showed it had Checksum or EEprom errors, whatever that means.

Neat little utility, available here http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctspd.shtml#c'tSPD
Though the page is in German, the default language of the utility is english.


[This message has been edited by SCompRacer (edited 10 March 2001).]

[HedsSpaz]

I'll yet another vote of confidence for the Crucial stuff. Until 3 weeks ago I had 2 128MB sticks of Generic PC133 crap stuff. I couldn't overclock in the slightest or even run at CAS 2. I bought 2 sticks of the 256MB PC133 CAS2 stuff from crucial and am now running at an FSB of 115 with the mem at FSB+33 (148MHz for the mathematically challenged ) and still at CAS 2. Haven't had a crash yet.

Crucial rocks! There are some components that you can skimp on when building a computer. Memory is NOT one of them!

My .02$
Ian

[MK]

I have to go along with Rick, that Crucial stuff is really great. ctSPD (great tool btw.) says that everything is fine with my EPROM. For testing purposes I had the RAM running at 133 MHz @ CAS 2. No problems so far and stability is excellent.

MK



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Celeron II 860 MHz + Golden Orb
256 MB PC133 Crucial (2-2-2)
G400 16MB @ PD 5.52 + TGL
20 GB IBM on HPT U-ATA100 RAID
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400

[Admiral]

Ended up buying an 128 CAS2 PC133 stick made by Simple, Simple Technology. Anyone heard of them ?

It can boot up to 155 CAS3, although it locks as soon as I enter Windows. Might be that I don't have enough cooling on the CPU, or the ram won't handle it.
I'm having a little problem when I put my two sticks together. I have to put the new stick on the second slot and the old one on the first, otherwise it would lock in Quake 3 and 3Dmark 2001. I'm testing them further, hope they'll like eachother I'm at 138 with them.

Edit:

Found Simple's site:


Simple Technology

[This message has been edited by Admiral (edited 27 March 2001).]

[Guru]

We used to have the same problem over here in Finland! Nowadays however there is no problem in finding PC133 memory mostly Spectec(works at 145MHz CAS3) or Hyundai! However if a customer asks me for PC133 CAS2 I still have no other option but to offer them VCM memory (Kingston or Apacer)!

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