buffalo pc3700 w/winbond

[Jason711]

they have this stuff at newegg.... the ppl in the reviews say its bh-5. what do you guys think?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-150-566&depa=1

[thebliX]

those coments are over 6 months old.

[Jason711]

those coments are over 6 months old.

ah... i didnt even pay attention to that!... i wonder what exactly they are then?

[diredesire]

Ch-5? ;p

[Jason711]

Ch-5? ;p

would that be a bad price for ch-5?

[roncomatic]

I bought some of that about 4 months ago hoping for BH-5's. At the time they listed 2 types of Buffalo PC3700; one type with Micron chips, the other with Winbond. I ordered the Winbond sticks, but I got the Micron sticks instead.

So I wouldn't count on them being BH-5 or Ch-5 but maybe something completely different. I haven't really pushed the sticks I got (2 x 512Mb) since I'm running them only at 400Mhz. I had upgraded from 2 x 256Mb sticks of Corsair XMS3500 (BH-5) and my timings went from 2-2-2-5 to 2.5-3-3-8.

[Jason711]

I bought some of that about 4 months ago hoping for BH-5's. At the time they listed 2 types of Buffalo PC3700; one type with Micron chips, the other with Winbond. I ordered the Winbond sticks, but I got the Micron sticks instead.

So I wouldn't count on them being BH-5 or Ch-5 but maybe something completely different. I haven't really pushed the sticks I got (2 x 512Mb) since I'm running them only at 400Mhz. I had upgraded from 2 x 256Mb sticks of Corsair XMS3500 (BH-5) and my timings went from 2-2-2-5 to 2.5-3-3-8.

you didnt send the micron chips back?

the timings on my ram are horrible... 2.5-4-4-8, they wont hardly do a hair over 200mhz.


i really want something with the ability to get well over 200mhz and with lower timings.. and not break the bank at the same time.

[Jason711]

well its not winbond. apparently they are micron 5B-C chips... supposedly the same that are on OCZ's EB ram. so its still some pretty good stuff. the guy testing it out has 2x512's running at 246mhz with 11-2-2-2.5 timings.. not bad at all.

look at this thread here.... http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=339010

[roncomatic]

you didnt send the micron chips back?

the timings on my ram are horrible... 2.5-4-4-8, they wont hardly do a hair over 200mhz.


i really want something with the ability to get well over 200mhz and with lower timings.. and not break the bank at the same time.

No, I didn't send it back. I'll truely test this memory when I upgrade to a 875p or 865. It's running on a P4PE with a 1.6Ghz Northy at 2.4Ghz. I really needed the Gig since I do a lot of image manipulation and the ram was priced extremely well before RAM prices skyrocketed. Within the month, RAM prices went way up so I decided to keep them.

And I heard reports that some crucial ram was doing 250Mhz at 1:1. So there are some Micron chips doing extremely well.

[nst6563]

well its not winbond. apparently they are micron 5B-C chips...

I have 2 sticks of Micron with the 5B-C chips on them. They suck ass IMO. Although, I guess I had my hopes WAY too high, as I was expecting to at least clock them to 200Mhz w/o problems (They're PC2700 crapsticks - 2.5-4-4-7). They won't even do 170Mhz @ 3-4-4-7 @ 3.2v. Gave them back with pleasure. The bandwidth sucked on them too btw.

I'll stick with my Geil that I picked up for $150 that does 284fsb 2.5-4-4-6 @ 3.0v.

[maxxo]

they're out of stock now.

[Jason711]

nevermind