Patriot Memory?

[gate1975mlm]

http://www.monarchcomputer.com...988&Category_Code=NA_2
Does Patriot make good memory? Anyone here use there stuff?

 

[BrentUnitedMem]

To our amazement, we were really bowled over by the Corsair DIMMs and both pairs of Patriot modules from PDP. We can confirm that PDP currently offers the speediest DDR2 DIMMs by far. Not only did the 1 GB Patriot DIMMs work at DDR2-533 at sensationally fast CL3-2-2-4 timings, they also managed to do a decent job at maintaining that operating tempo even at high clock speeds. At DDR2-710 we still recorded timings of CL4-3-3-12. Despite their advanced age of more than six months, Corsair's XMS2 PRO memory modules are also able to run at absolutely ideal timings at DDR2-533 - even though there are few motherboards that feature these settings

source: http://www20.tomshardware.com/...4/ddr2_modules-11.html

 

[ts3433]

They make good memory, and that's probably some of the best latencies you'll find in a 1GB stick (for whatever reason you can't go 2x512MB). Their 2-2-2-5 XBL modules are also really good overclockers, and are great paired with a P4 that you plan to overclock (on the A64 and often AXP, you don't need anything more than value RAM).

Brent: Your article's mostly irrelevant; that talks about DDR2 (for what that's worth; nobody's interested right now).

 

[bex0rs]

I have two of the 1GB PC3200 2-3-2-5 low latency kits (2 * 512MB each). Ran reliably at stock timings and voltage. They apparently do not overclock well but I have not tried.

PDP's tech support is great. I needed to get the SPD in all four sticks reprogrammed to 2.5-3-3-8 so that I could use them at DDR400 in my Dell Poweredge 400SC. The rep I was in contact with was knowledgable and accomodating. I only had to pay for shipping one way. Turnaround was just over a week to get the memory reprogrammed per my spec. Lifetime warranty is also included.

The price wasn't bad either - $154 per dual channel 1 GB low latency kit.

 

[ts3433]

Yeah, the 2-3-2-5 ones don't overclock quite as well because they aren't TCCD chips (rated for 2-2-2-5 at PC3200).

 

[gate1975mlm]

You guys think 2GB is too much?

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: gate1975mlm
You guys think 2GB is too much?

That would depend on what you're doing. If you're gaming it's pretty much overkill right now.

 

[VedantR]

check out www.zipzoomfly.com

They offer 700MHZ DDR2 Patriot memory... Its pricy but for $484, you can get 1GB of the fastest memory around. Ofcourse, if I was such a geek, i'd just wait until PC 6000 DDR2 comes out which is clocked at 800MHZ.