HOT!! Crucial 512MB pc2700 $63.90 shipped

[Savizzaviz]

Originally posted by: TurtleMan
received my stick today ... pop it in in the DIMM 3... computer crashes .. wtf
EPOX 8k3a+

DIMM 1 - 256 samsung double sided
DIMM 2- 256 samsung one sided
DIMM 3 - 512 crucial...

everything back to normal , and still crashes ... im going crazy ...

Don't you have to, or it is recomended at least, that you put the highest RAM in the DIMM1 slot? That's what I have heard at least.


Ordered mine on the 7th, got the tracking number yesterday, have yet to see a charge to my credit card... Hopefully I will see it within the next week...

 

[m1ke101]

Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
hmm... ordered 3 sticks on friday @ 62.00. I already have a gig of samsung in my box, but I'm betting on volatility and plan to sell these apparently crap crucial sticks on ebay in a month or so. Anyway, got my tracking number today and it looks like it should arrive this friday. Total of 7 days turnaround.

crap sticks? eh? Theres nothing wrong with crucial sticks...you have problems with it you can always rma.

 

[dp004i]

Has anybody managed to get theirs running at CAS2 and/or 1T? Mine works all right at 2.5-2-2-6-2T, but crashes when I use the above-mentioned settings, regardless of FSB.

 

[htyei]

 

[LucJoe]

Originally posted by: htyei
what motherboards are you using? Im starting to hear incompatibilities with nforce2 boards

AHHH! Where did you hear that? I'm using an EpoX 8RDA+ (nForce2) :frown:

 

[TechieJ]

Here is some food for thought:
Got a hold of 4 sticks of the 512Mb Crucial memory from cnetpc and also a stick of Dell 512Mb memory. All of the sticks are PC2700 and are definitely genuine Crucial memory. There are a few slight differences in the markings on the stickers though:

cnetpc
2 sticks which had slightly brighter connectors and both marked as below:
LEFT sticker:
MT16VDDTT6464AG-335C4 PC2600U-25330-B1
BZABX5D008 200306

RIGHT sticker:
200306 CT6464Z335.16T

2 sticks which had duller connectors and both marked as below:
LEFT sticker:
MT16VDDTT6464AG-335C4 PC2600U-25330-B1
BZABXG2004 200308

RIGHT sticker:
200308 CT6464Z335.16T


Dell memory:
1 stick which had duller connectors like the 2 cnetpc sticks above:
LEFT sticker:
MT16VDDTT6464AG-335C4 PC2600U-25330-B1
BZABXEL006 200308

RIGHT sticker:
200308 CT6464Z335.16T

I'm wondering if the different markings mean something significant and if they might indicate higher possible timings. Unfortunately the mb bios on my boxes do not have any options to tweak the memory whatsoever.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: pillage2001

Originally posted by: dp004i
Well, guess I was right. They sold us customer return crap, that's why nobody can get those sticks running at decent speeds. Does anybody want to get in touch with Crucial and see if we can RMA those? I called the CnetMonkeys and they told me they'll charge a 20% restocking fee if I send those back to them.

Can you confirm this?? I got my DIMM and the gold connectors were untouched. It was not even slotten into any DIMM slots.

Hmm. Just curious - do these DIMMs have BOTH a "Micron", AND a "Crucial" sticker on them, or just the Crucial one? They might be SpekTek sticks, which I believe that Crucial may also sell. SpekTek is a sub-brand of Micron, they are their "second grade" memory, which may test and have lower overall margins in terms of testing.

It may well be likely that these are SpekTek sticks, and that is why there is no "margin" left to overclock. If they are missing a 2nd "Micron" sticker in addition to the "Crucial" sticker, it all but proves that they are SpekTek. This would also be consistant with being listed as "Micron OEM".

Yes, you are getting "Micron" memory with SpekTek, but they are lower-grade chips. It is also why they appear to be lower-quality, as if they might be customer returns, but the gold DIMM "fingers" look unmarked.

 

[TechieJ]

The left sticker is a Micron logoed sticker and the right sticker is a Crucial logoed sticker. Both stickers are on one side of the memory.

 

[Freewolf]

Got mine in. Micron sticker on the left side Crucial on the right ct6464z335 Shows up on their website at $81.99

 

[augmentin]

how can you tell what timing you are running on your memory (2-2- whatever)?
i want to check what i am running currently on my del 4550 (533mhz fsb if it matters).

thanks.

 

[mroptimistic]

Originally posted by: m1ke101

Originally posted by: AAjax

Originally posted by: dp004i Well, guess I was right. They sold us customer return crap, that's why nobody can get those sticks running at decent speeds. Does anybody want to get in touch with Crucial and see if we can RMA those? I called the CnetMonkeys and they told me they'll charge a 20% restocking fee if I send those back to them.

And exactly what facts do you base your comment on? My two sticks run perfect at stock speeds, and can run at cas 2 on my Intel MB though they dont do well at much other than that. This has usually been the case with larger sticks of memory, smaller sticks usually clock higher. The sticks I recived had never been touched, no marks whatsoever and had the rough edges on the PCB to prove it. Anyhow all crucial chips have lifetime warranty, dont like them rma them

Thats actually what I was thinking, my roommates stick looked new, and since it is crucial, you can rma it whenever

I just got my stick, had my fsb at 150 already, figured that was low enough to try cas2, no dice Won't run fast timings at that low either. So now its just sittin at 2.5 and 160.

Dont you need a reason to rma to crucial though? I wouldn't think they would accept a return because their 2.5 2700 wont run 2 at 2700.

 

[FPSguy]

Originally posted by: mroptimistic

just got my stick, had my fsb at 150 already, figured that was low enough to try cas2, no dice Won't run fast timings at that low either. So now its just sittin at 2.5 and 160.

Have you tried increasing the voltage? Have you tried increasing some of the other timings and then lowering the CAS to 2?

 

[Savizzaviz]

Just got mine today. Looks good. Same stickers as everyone else... Still no charge to my credit card though...

I'm curious, what do all these speed numbers mean? How do you go about checking them? How do you set it higher?

 

[icesnowriver]

so, Crucial will honor OEM ram also?

 

[isaacmacdonald]

Originally posted by: m1ke101

Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
hmm... ordered 3 sticks on friday @ 62.00. I already have a gig of samsung in my box, but I'm betting on volatility and plan to sell these apparently crap crucial sticks on ebay in a month or so. Anyway, got my tracking number today and it looks like it should arrive this friday. Total of 7 days turnaround.

crap sticks? eh? Theres nothing wrong with crucial sticks...you have problems with it you can always rma.

recieved crap crucial today.

I don't mean that all crucial is crap, but I'm confirming that these sticks will only run about 2% faster than advertised speeds, will not even post at cl2, and are substantially worse than the 512mb pc2700 samsung sticks I picked up from google gear.

Seriously, these must be customer returns or something. While they will run @ exact specs, the best latency I could get was 2.5-3-3-7 (read: crap), they're really sub par for crucial. Anyway, the label should fetch an extra 15 bucks on ebay (once ram inflates a little more).

bizaa... my samsung's claim the same stats, but easily run cl2.5 @ 400 mhz and 2.0 @ 333

 

[SimpleTim]

aooogah! :Q
check out this thread at ars technica
bunch o peeps saying crucial pc2700 doesn't work well with nforce2, with some confirmation from crucial themselves.
sure surprised me, I was about to bite.

[this is a huge thread, didn't check to see if this has been pointed out]

 

[dp004i]

So, has anybody managed to get Crucial to replace those sticks?

 

[dp004i]

Originally posted by: mroptimistic

Originally posted by: m1ke101

Originally posted by: AAjax

Originally posted by: dp004i Well, guess I was right. They sold us customer return crap, that's why nobody can get those sticks running at decent speeds. Does anybody want to get in touch with Crucial and see if we can RMA those? I called the CnetMonkeys and they told me they'll charge a 20% restocking fee if I send those back to them.

And exactly what facts do you base your comment on? My two sticks run perfect at stock speeds, and can run at cas 2 on my Intel MB though they dont do well at much other than that. This has usually been the case with larger sticks of memory, smaller sticks usually clock higher. The sticks I recived had never been touched, no marks whatsoever and had the rough edges on the PCB to prove it. Anyhow all crucial chips have lifetime warranty, dont like them rma them

Thats actually what I was thinking, my roommates stick looked new, and since it is crucial, you can rma it whenever

I just got my stick, had my fsb at 150 already, figured that was low enough to try cas2, no dice Won't run fast timings at that low either. So now its just sittin at 2.5 and 160.

Dont you need a reason to rma to crucial though? I wouldn't think they would accept a return because their 2.5 2700 wont run 2 at 2700.

What was the FSB/memory ratio? Was it 1:1 or 1:1.25?

 

[m1ke101]

so anyone know if crucial will rma this directly?

 

[Stout]

This is fron SANDRA... Cas2 right?

Logical/Chipset Memory Banks
Bank 0 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.0-2-2CL 2CMD
Bank 1 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.0-2-2CL 2CMD
Bank 2 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.0-2-2CL 2CMD
Bank 3 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.0-2-2CL 2CMD
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 148MHz (296MHz data rate)
Max. Memory Bandwidth : 2368MB/s (estimated)

Running 2 512 sticks of this "cheapo" Crucial...

Stout

 

[pillage2001]

I did 153Mhz on 222 5 1T without any problems. Seems like some of you have got bad RAM.

 

[htyei]

I believe the ram has only nforce2 problems.
I tried the 2x512 ram that gives errors at stock cas 2.5 spd speed on my abit nf7-s

on an epox kt266 board.
I overclocked the motherboard and set the ram to 333 2-2-5 cas2 four bank interleave 1t and it runs fine on memtest and windows xp.

 

[TechieJ]

To clarify a previous post by someone, 2x512mb sticks of the cnetpc Crucial memory works perfectly fine in a Dell 4550. Sandra is reporting the memory as:
Bank 0 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.5-2-2CL 2
Bank 1 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.5-2-2CL 2
Bank 2 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.5-2-2CL 2
Bank 3 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM 2.5-2-2CL 2
Memory Bus Speed: 2x 166MHz
Max Memory Bandwidth : 2656MB/s (estimated)

For the people that have overclocked successfully with the memory, can you post your results and the number on the right sticker of the the 512MB stick you used? It seems as though there are only 2 numbers for the memory, either 200306 or 200308

 

[may]

I have this ram and a kingston valueram 512mb ddr333 in my dell 4550. Works great!

 

[JmsAndrsn]

I got 2 sticks of the Crucial 512mb/PC2700 stuff from cNetPC. I've only tried one stick so far but it's running at 200 Mhz/DDR400 on my P4B533 with 2.5/3/3/7 timings and 2.6v. This is running the CPU at 150 FSB and using the 3:4 memory divider.