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bh-5 retailers?

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dashakes

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hey everyone,
i've searched everywhere for an online store who has any pc3200/3500 memory with bh-5 chips and that would ship to canada. does anyone have any suggestions?? they're the only pieces missing to my system, so the faster i get this stuff, the fast i can use my new comp :)
thanks for the help!
 
You might be really out of luck. The only RAM these days guaranteed to have BH5 chips are the Mushkin Level IIs, and I've only seen them on Newegg, and thanks to zero supply of BH5 left, you might have to find older Corsair modules or HyperX PC3000 modules.

Of course, you could always get BH6 RAM if you can find that.
 
do the bh-6 chips overclock anywhere as well as the bh-5 ones? because i can find the bh-6 ones no problem
 
No, BH6 aren't as good as BH5 (otherwise no one would be asking for Bh5 anymore) in terms of overclockability, but they're better than CH5.
 
hmm, that gives me a tough decision.. i'm planning on hitting somewhere near 260fsb, should i just go for lower cas pc4000/4200 sticks?
 
Originally posted by dashakes
hmm, that gives me a tough decision.. i'm planning on hitting somewhere near 260fsb, should i just go for lower cas pc4000/4200 sticks?
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No.

You'll just have to run with a divider. I doubt you'd be seeing 260FSB with BH-5 ither even with 3.2v. BH-5 is only 5ns 200Mhz chips even though it will overclock like hell with lots of voltage. BH6 is 6ns 166Mhz chips. Just set the divider to 5:4 or 3:2 depending on how high your going and what speed RAM your using. You definitely dont want to go for overly expensive RAM with loose timings that can't give you any more performance then PC3200.

probably, most benchmarks i've seen show that p4c's prefer high memory frequency
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Thats just a common myth. They dont prefer it any more then AMD processors prefer it. They can just handle more bandwidth better then AMD processors so people draw up the logic that more bandwidth gives better performance. Then they look at benchmarks and say its true but they forget that its primarily the raise in the FSB clock speed that adding to the points, not the bandwidth. You should be able to see that from the fact your performance goes up very little in most benchmarks from having dual channel enabled. Dual Channel alone doubles the memory bandwidth from DDR400 3.2GB/s to 6.4GB/s. Why try and take it higher when hardly anything benefits from more then 3.2GB/s. Games use very little bandwidth and perform according to timings. Thats pretty much the sole reason why the A64's are better at gaming. Its an on-die memory controller so latency is way down.

When your switch your divider try and make sure your RAM stays running at around 200Mhz. You dont want to slow it down too much or your system wont have enough bandwidth then.

For 260FSB i recommend buying PC3500 from Mushkin, Kingston, or Corsair and setting the divider to 5:4 and your memory will be running at around 208MHz which will be ideal :).
 
Are all of the HyperX 3000 modules bh5 chips? All I'm really wanting to do is run the ram at 200mhz with as low as latency as possible without ANY stability problems. This will be part of my amd64 project.
 
i wonder... why the hell did they stop making bh5's anyway.

apparently they are the best chips made to date.. whats the point in going backwards and producing something that is basically crap in comparison?
 
The cost to make Bh5 chips was prohibitively higher than the costs to make CH5 or other chips, and the demand for BH5 probably wasn't high enough (since it is the most costly RAM).
 
The demand is obviously high. I think I read an article back in late December that stated they might start manufacturing the bh5's again because the demand had grown so high.
 
Originally posted by logo29a
The demand is obviously high. I think I read an article back in late December that stated they might start manufacturing the bh5's again because the demand had grown so high.
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we need them in mass quantities!!!
:)
 
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