I assume the heatsink design is patented? Otherwise it would be nice to see this filter down to other brands. Yes it's fast, but £400+ for memory is silly money...
It seems the real world performance to price ratio makes this an enthusiasts purchase, unless I win the lottery I don't think I will be getting some for my next rig!
Amazing timings none the less.
Originally Posted by atanum141 I can hear Highlander reaching for his wallet as we speak........
Why..? Have a kit here that cost 1/2 the amount and can get damn close to those timings with the same voltage... ;)
Look like decent modules, think the speader is overkill... DIMM's here don't get hugely hot with 2.45v running through them thats with a normal spreader and only a slight breeze from a fan over the graphics card.
<edit> although the lack of case might contribute somewhat, a little airflow from the heatsink should make the extra fannage un-necessary though) </edit>
BTW guys, you have a set of 6400 C3 right? Bung 2.4 (or more) volts through that and you should be able to run 3,3,3,x timings way into the 400's quite happily. Might even get to x,2,2,x at 400mhz :)
Originally Posted by Highland3r Why..? Have a kit here that cost 1/2 the amount and can get damn close to those timings with the same voltage... ;)
Look like decent modules, think the speader is overkill... DIMM's here don't get hugely hot with 2.45v running through them thats with a normal spreader and only a slight breeze from a fan over the graphics card.
I don't know what memory you are using, but most enthusiast ram even slightly overclocked feels very hot to the touch...
Originally Posted by rupbert I don't know what memory you are using, but most enthusiast ram even slightly overclocked feels very hot to the touch...
GSkill HZ (most likely uses the same IC's as the corsair - probably in a higher binned form)
Have DDR1 and DDR2 kits of HZ, DDR1 kit is running at ~ 260 atm in mobo next to me, no airflow save that off the CPU cooler and its midly warm.
<edit> Just checked, 40 deg </edit>
<further edit> Compared to the Ballistix kit I tested the other day, these things run really cool. The ballistix were MUCH warmer and needed extra airflow to keep temps to an acceptable level. </further edit>
Never used GSkill to be fair, but certainly my Corsair XMS and Crucial Ballisitix are certainly not midly warm, although I have only one 120mm case fan...
Originally Posted by Highland3r BTW guys, you have a set of 6400 C3 right? Bung 2.4 (or more) volts through that and you should be able to run 3,3,3,x timings way into the 400's quite happily. Might even get to x,2,2,x at 400mhz :)
We've got the C3, I've got 3-3-3-9-1T out of it with 2.3V on AM2 and 3-3-3-9 with 2.2V on 975X/P965 at PC2-6400 in *most* motherboards.
I thought Bit-tech was better than this. This artical is utter bolocks.. heatspreaders make at most 5mhz differance to the max memory overclock. You could have at least prized the heatspreaders off the memory and tested that but instead you chose to follow the crowd and belive that memory heatspreaders are a good idea. Pathetic.
Originally Posted by Kipman725 I thought Bit-tech was better than this. This artical is utter bolocks.. heatspreaders make at most 5mhz differance to the max memory overclock. You could have at least prized the heatspreaders off the memory and tested that but instead you chose to follow the crowd and belive that memory heatspreaders are a good idea. Pathetic.
The last time we pulled heatspreaders off memory, we actually prized the DRAMs off... Also, they're not heatspreaders, they're heatsinks - you would have realised that if you'd read the article.
Do you have high-speed DDR2 memory running at higher than 2.4V in a case? It gets pretty hot - I've burned myself on some 6400C3 modules that had run at 2.3V under heavy load for over 24 hours.
Anyway, thanks for your comments - I'll take them on board.
£400+ is a complete waste of money for some chips, talk about jingo rip off marketing for something you will put in the bin in under 3 years. Who cares about a slight performance improvement of like a few mhz, or having to sit at your computer for a whole extra three seconds.
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But they could be used as a hair comb.
On a more serious note, shame about the H__U_G_E price tag (compo prize:P) and I wouldn't mind that fan cap personally.
As far as I can see, the price premium over say a £150 set just isn't worth it for most people, as there is hardly any performance difference.
Anymore details/thoughts on the fans would be nice, possibly using magnets to keep it so quiet?
Amazing timings none the less.
Great idea, it would prop. do the job well as an ueber geek comb.
Never seen one, link?
I think you mean crossflow fans?
Yeah that's what confused me.
updated
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3953/axialfangb0.jpg
crossflow:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8311/60mmmedag6.jpg
the bottom one i think would be better for this aplication, but it makes more noise.
http://www.answers.com/topic/axial-fan
Airflow moves along the rotating shaft.
Why..? Have a kit here that cost 1/2 the amount and can get damn close to those timings with the same voltage... ;)
Look like decent modules, think the speader is overkill... DIMM's here don't get hugely hot with 2.45v running through them thats with a normal spreader and only a slight breeze from a fan over the graphics card.
<edit> although the lack of case might contribute somewhat, a little airflow from the heatsink should make the extra fannage un-necessary though) </edit>
BTW guys, you have a set of 6400 C3 right? Bung 2.4 (or more) volts through that and you should be able to run 3,3,3,x timings way into the 400's quite happily. Might even get to x,2,2,x at 400mhz :)
I don't know what memory you are using, but most enthusiast ram even slightly overclocked feels very hot to the touch...
GSkill HZ (most likely uses the same IC's as the corsair - probably in a higher binned form)
Have DDR1 and DDR2 kits of HZ, DDR1 kit is running at ~ 260 atm in mobo next to me, no airflow save that off the CPU cooler and its midly warm.
<edit> Just checked, 40 deg </edit>
<further edit> Compared to the Ballistix kit I tested the other day, these things run really cool. The ballistix were MUCH warmer and needed extra airflow to keep temps to an acceptable level. </further edit>
Do you have high-speed DDR2 memory running at higher than 2.4V in a case? It gets pretty hot - I've burned myself on some 6400C3 modules that had run at 2.3V under heavy load for over 24 hours.
Anyway, thanks for your comments - I'll take them on board.