Screw Cheap RAM: WARM DEAL Kingmax PC150 128mb $105

[Hilander]

Seems like a great deal. Orderd some now. Will try it to replace my PC100 ram on my Abit BH6 running a Coppermine 800/133. If anyone wants to know how it goes just ask.

 

[joecool222111]

bump ^

 

[abracadabra1]

this is really some great ram.
not like the mushkin, but great nonetheless.

 

[scienter]

greetings

i went ahead and picked up 2 sticks sunday. came today.

was wondering what this memory shows up as in sandra for anyone else who might have bought some..

its reads as following for me: 128MB 16x(8Mx8) SDRAM PC133U-333-542 (CL3 upto 133MHz) (CL2 upto 100MHz)

i was expecting it to show up as "prettier" stuff. sandra memory bandwidth scores did jump up about 15 points (to about 158 for both) though. am running a FIC va503a @100 bus.

so what im wondering is if anyone else got any thing different from the module identification? or did i get these readings because im running such a bum motherboard?

 

[ss284]

sccietner, where the modules 6ns?
have you tried increasing the mem clock?


Steve

 

[AU Tiger]

I read on some other board that the Sandra identification reads the information from the chips and that those settings are for Auto memory setup in BIOS. It keeps motherboards from possibly running the memory out of spec if the BIOS is set to detect memory settings. If only I could find that link...

 

[LIVAN]

I got the same stuff and it reads the same. Fact is I am running 144mhz Cas 2 and I couldn't with the Mushkin Vitelic before.

 

[RoadRuner]

I'm not sure which processors you guys are using? or what your doing with your ram.

but my duron runs my mushkin rev 1.5 ($130 shipped) at sisoft sandra (me)
462/590 running at 143mghz.

The bottom line to rate these chips, is to run them stable, and compare the results.

Yes those numbers are correct. Duron 600 clocked to 110fsb x 8.5

wicked fast.

 

[ss284]

hey livan where did you get the ram from>?
6ns stuffs? rated at cas 3 ?

Steve

 

[Nightwatch]

Is this a good price?
KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY 16Mx64 133MHz CL3

 

[LIVAN]

I got them from MWAVE steve. Witht he Link provided at the beginning of the thread.

 

[LIVAN]

I am not sure if that is teh same stuff Nightwatch. The stuff I got from Mwave does 144mhz Cas 2 with no problems. But it says Cas3 in Sandra. I don't really care becasue this thing is rock stable and I am sure will do 150+ Cas2 if I only got a better processor.

 

[AU Tiger]

Currently running two sticks at 133 CAS2 with no problems. I replaced my stick of Crucial PC133 CL2 with two of the Kingston and didn't change a setting in bios. (The Crucial is going in a newer system) Unfortunately this is a Slot1 processor in the Tyan S1854 board so 133Mhz is the highest I can run the memory.

 

[FiDo14DiDo]

DAmn...this place is like 2 miles away from home. Gotta pay taxes and "Will call" fee. Comes out close to $120. Might as well pay a bit more for the Crucial deal on Buy.com (taxes again). Damn California taxes suck!!! :|

 

[dc]

same here, tax and will call fee (5 bucks last time i shopped there).

dc

 

[scienter]

Thanks for the replies guys.

Im now more confident that this stuff will do what im hoping for: 133mhz@cas2.
i would test it out myself but my current computer wont do near 133.
it is the 6ns stuff so im thinking it should be fine.

im still amazed that the memory bandwidth seemed to increase without even having to increase the frequency!

 

[dscline]

I bought one stick, and it does 143 (about as high as my G400 likes me to go with a 2/3 AGP bus) at 2-2-2. I have since slowed my system down to 133 (hopefully temporarily), and now that I have a second stick it still does fine at 2-2-2. Unless the second stick is worse than the first, I feel pretty confident that I can bump it back up to 143 (for 1Ghz on the P3 700), because when I had only one stick in (on a BE6-II) at 143 I had it in the second slot to test it with, which generally doesn't do as well as the first slot.

Nightwatch, you're confusing KinMAX with KingSTON. Two different companies.

 

[WhiteStuph]

Well, I went and bought this stick of RAM today.. we'll see how it is when it gets here & how well it does w/ my old mushkin RAM

 

[PwAg]

Sounds good to me!