Samsung DDR333 -> K4H56 good K4H28 bad

Twitchie · 04-15-2002, 07:44 PM

I bought a stick of 333MHz (256MB) and ended up with the lower density K4H280838C-TCB3 (still rated @333) chips...this stick wouldn't overclock much at all...and would barely do 333 at cl2 (2-2-2-5-1 on asus p4s333@166mem bus)...

I bought it because of this review:

German ddr333 comparison

but only asked if the chips were samsung, not knowing there were 2 different chips...

Anyway, the place I got it from was nice enough to have a stick of 512 w/ the K4H560838C-TCB3 chips as seen in the review...and sure enough, memtest is currently running for me at 187.5 (150fsb 4:5 cpu:mem ratio @ 2.9V)...running at 2.7V gave errors, but I still have a thermaltake cooling kit to put on this stick...

Just a heads up for those seeking 200MHz FSB and beyond...

Brad · 04-16-2002, 03:20 AM

thats interesting, especially as samsung rambust is the same thing, single sided sucks, double sided rocks.

04-15-2002, 07:44 PM	#1
Twitchie Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 21	Samsung DDR333 -> K4H56 good K4H28 bad I bought a stick of 333MHz (256MB) and ended up with the lower density K4H280838C-TCB3 (still rated @333) chips...this stick wouldn't overclock much at all...and would barely do 333 at cl2 (2-2-2-5-1 on asus p4s333@166mem bus)... I bought it because of this review: German ddr333 comparison but only asked if the chips were samsung, not knowing there were 2 different chips... Anyway, the place I got it from was nice enough to have a stick of 512 w/ the K4H560838C-TCB3 chips as seen in the review...and sure enough, memtest is currently running for me at 187.5 (150fsb 4:5 cpu:mem ratio @ 2.9V)...running at 2.7V gave errors, but I still have a thermaltake cooling kit to put on this stick... Just a heads up for those seeking 200MHz FSB and beyond...

04-16-2002, 03:20 AM	#2
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	thats interesting, especially as samsung rambust is the same thing, single sided sucks, double sided rocks. __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

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