Sorry about few days delay here, but what you can do about it. Nothing really… So i bough used PSU & Cellshock Black Edition C7-12800 4×1gb sticks. Okay, well first ill introduce my pc:

Phenom II x2 550BE , True Black, Radeon HD3850 512mb, Asus M4A78T-E.

Let’s start with PSU, bought it for 52 euros, not bad deal because it was Thermaltake ToughPower 750 watt. Few notes thought, it missed few modular cables… not big deal for me. So i started to put back together my pc, after while i booted it up first time… well tryed. No go, no matter what. So i plugged hdd’s of first and tryed again. WoW! It was alive, but the reality hitted on my face pretty quickly. Erm what? so what to do without hdd’s? Nothing. Putted back again everything, no go… ugh… then i unplugged 6 pin pci-e cable from radeon.. and wow it was alive again. You know what happens next.. Doh. So i was like in situation where i have to choose between them, ermm no. Contacted seller, got my money back. He tested it too, he’s pc was working allright. Umm what? Strange problem then, but let’s head to Cellshocks.

Opened up first kit, booted fine with 1333mhz and CL7. Good working… Thought i did not try memtest or superpi at all. Tryed 1600mhz and no go just bluescreens.

After 2 hours of trying different slot’s latencys and all the setting i quess, i had to give up! Opened other set, unplugged first ones and attached second  ones to mobo, it fired up to at 1333mhz. Nice, moved up to 1600mhz and cl7. Working ! oh yes finally some good stuff ahead. I did not expect it after first kit. Moved up to 1800mhz, again working. So i was finally getting decent clocks on memory and with cl7 @ 1.9v rated, which is stock voltage for these sticks. Tested some superpi 1m &8m and passed!

Well im happy, at least something is working and hitting good numbers on screen, gotta test these tomorrow more.  But after these backdraws i got something good and feeling happy right now.

Now some updates to G.SKILLS which i have been testing lately. My mind have changed few times when it comes to these.

120+ euros, pretty decent clocks on AM3 platform. I migh say; best bang for buck, but with few exceptions. These are very good for intel, for AMD you might not be lucky at all with these sticks, when it comes to your mobo&cpu. With C3 cpu’s your mems might go little further, maybe. Cheaper CPU’s might have weak memcontroller and that’s why getting near to AMD memspeed limit, might be impossible which is not your mems fault.

PS: Next i will post about Cellshock C7-12800 black editions, BeQuit psu and x2 4870. Bought these as used. Also i might make and order for Corsair Domitar GTX2 memorys,  200 dollars each… Ouch.  But hey, 6-6-6 latencys and 1800mhz for AMD AM3 platform… not bad! As those need only 1.65v for it. Ooh i will se some wet dreams about them. Below G.SKill update. Before weekend, if i have time enough to run some superpi 32m test

But here’s my latest SuperPi 32m run with 1.6v & 7-8-7 timings. Yeah had to loose timings bit as my cpu barely can hold +1800mhz.

Check it out. Not bad afterall and keep in mind, only 1.6v which is good for 24/7 use. These might go little further, but as i dont wanna go over rated voltages. Otherwise i could get easily more out of these.

Well i dunno where to start, eh?

Uhmm yes, i got few days ago new memorys for my AMD AM3 platform… choice were easy, just pick up cheap and fast memory.

I ended up on G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-2000 F3-16000CL9D-4GBRH kit, price tag of 125 euros. I though now i can start oc*ing my setup, but oh boy how wrong i was. As the kit fly’s on intel chipsets, it wont fly on AMD chipset. Im barely getting some decent numbers: CL7 and 1600mhz and stock voltage. Well that isn’t bad if many would say, but… you have to start 1333mhz divider and raise htt to 240 and after that lower htt multiplier and nb multiplier to get it running 24/7 stable. Did i mention about 1600mhz divider? it wont boot with it, duh!

Cas Latency 6 is also no go for these on AM3 platform. Well these stick’s can stay for while for future use. I Do believe these have Elpida BBSE chips, but im not sure about it. Duh, it’s 01:00 AM here, have to go to sleep, tomorrow i will post some more what i did buy today

I’m Out

Jerry

But here’s a screenshot with dirty quick run.

I’m not very big on chit chat so lets get right to the testing after seeing a shot of the ram.

System Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE

Asus M4A79 Deluxe

G.Skill F2-9600CL5D-4GPI (1200 5-5-5-15 2.1v)

PC P&C 1200w Turbocool

Thermalright Ultra-eXtreme 120

Testing

First up, I tossed the timings and voltage to spec, left everything else auto and ran some Prime 95 blend to stress the ram with the IMC.

Next I tested scaling with voltage

800 4-4-4 1.8v                          900 4-4-4 1.8v                     960 4-4-4 1.9v

980 4-4-4 2.0v                   1032 5-4-4 2.1v                          1066 5-5-5 1.8v

1100 5-5-5  1.8v              1150 5-5-5 1.9v

1200 5-5-5 2.0v              1226 5-5-5 2.0v

Conclusion

This has got to be one of the easiest and most versatile sets of ram I have oced with on AM2+.  The fact that it exceeds some of the 2×1g  “overclocker” sets I have used makes it that much sweeter. I personally am not a fan of  high voltage, and a relatively low-voltage set of memory doing speeds that require far more voltage with other sets of memory is a very welcome change indeed.  All in all, this set gets a big thumbs up and appears to compliment the AM2+ platform quite well. It’s nice to see with the majority of the manufacturers making the jump to DDR3 that G.Skill did not forget about the enthusiasts that still use DDRII. My only complaint would have to be the tall heatspreaders causing interference with the inner slots and high performance heatsinks such as the popular TRUE 120 and Xigamtek 1284 on AMD platforms where the heatsink can not be oriented in a different direction.  For users of heatsinks like these, you will most likely be forced to remove the heatspreaders on the memory if you wish to use them in your boards ‘primary’ memory slots.

On a final note, I would like to add that the Asus board I tested this on has some teething issues with ram clocking at the moment with the 955 CPU.  I’m quite sure that this is bios related and may have hindered the full potential of this set of ram.  Unfortunately, I did not have a different board to test with at present time due to me getting a little frisky in the overclocking department with my other AM2+ board.

Many thanks to G.Skill for the review sample.  If you’re looking for the best 4GB kit of DDRII available on the market today, look no further than the 4GB PC2-9600 PI’s, which can be found here at Newegg.

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