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Hyper X question

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I have a twin pack of 1G dual channel HyperX 3200 2-3-2-6, and on the system in my sig I can only run it at 2-3-3-6 with 2.75V... Is this okay. I need to have the voltage at 2.75 or it won't boot at these timings. The online guide says 2.65 is the default voltage +/- .2V and seeing as I'm inside this boundary I hope it's alright; however, it bugs me that I can't get the RAM to run at 2-3-2 at 2.6 as the web-site suggests...

What's going on???

Is 2.75 safe?
 
I have had similar problems with this same type of memory (PC 3200 HyperX). I am not satisfied with the performance and am seriously considering RMA'ing it.

I paid far too much for this crappy RAM.
 
CH-5 chips are crap and they are very tempermental. They dont run well in several of the Intel motherboards, especially the Abit ones. They dont overclock or run as tight of timings nearly as well as BH-5 chips. I'm very sad that Winbond decided to stop manufactering these chips back in September so were stuck with this CH-5 and Hynix junk until something new arises. Mushkin has a pretty good supply of BH-5 chips left but their lvl 2 RAM is starting to go up in price quite a bit because so many people are buying it and its cutting down on what they have left. Its around $300 now for 1GB of PC3500.
 
Originally posted by burningrave101
CH-5 chips are crap and they are very tempermental. They dont run well in several of the Intel motherboards, especially the Abit ones. They dont overclock or run as tight of timings nearly as well as BH-5 chips. I'm very sad that Winbond decided to stop manufactering these chips back in September so were stuck with this CH-5 and Hynix junk until something new arises. Mushkin has a pretty good supply of BH-5 chips left but their lvl 2 RAM is starting to go up in price quite a bit because so many people are buying it and its cutting down on what they have left. Its around $300 now for 1GB of PC3500.
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I know, but I figured they should still work with the advertsied timings.

By the way, I live in Canada so a Gig of Muskin PC3500 is $630.00, and I'm sure as hell not spending that on RAM.
 
I buoght my HyperX 3200 a while back, but my SPD shows as 2-5-2-2. It takes over 2.7v to stay stable. I've relaxed mine to 2.5-7-3-3 so that I can get my FSB to ~270, but I think I can get tighter. I'm happy with mine, but I don't know if it should really be set at 2-5-2-2 by SPD. I've heard the heat spreaders can have negative effects, you might try pulling them off.

e_t
 
Some mobos might read the SPDs wrong on some memory modules and either report the lowest ratings possible (2-2-2-5 in most cases), or the highest timings possible.

I run a pair of Mushkin Level IIs, and in the default SPD setting, timings were 2.5-2-2-6, which I expected to run fine. Turns out my RAS-to-CAS delay was wrong and caused my comp to error out on windows installs; I changed the timings to 2-3-2-6 and it runs perfectly fine, though I probably should've boosted the voltage to get the RAM to run at the rated 2-2-2-6.
 
Originally posted by edit_text
I buoght my HyperX 3200 a while back, but my SPD shows as 2-5-2-2. It takes over 2.7v to stay stable. I've relaxed mine to 2.5-7-3-3 so that I can get my FSB to ~270, but I think I can get tighter. I'm happy with mine, but I don't know if it should really be set at 2-5-2-2 by SPD. I've heard the heat spreaders can have negative effects, you might try pulling them off.

e_t
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Because you bought yours a while back you probably have BH-5 RAM which will run 2-2-2-5 easily. I wouldn't be scared to give it more voltage. Set yourself a 3:2 divider and push that thing up to around 300FSB if you can :).

Mushkin lvl 2 will run 2-2-2-5 in most motherboards. Sometimes you have to give it more voltage to keep it stable. BH-5 loves 3.2v ;) .
 
My PC3200 HyperX runs fine at 2-2-2-11 @ 220 FSB, but then again I got BH-5 chips and have the voltage at 2.8. YMMV, but i'll still always like HyperX
 
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