Post by casanova on Aug 22, 2018 0:59:51 GMT -5
I got 2 ddr2 2x1gb kits, both patriot's Viper fin series.
Believe or not, this kits are NEW, never oppened. I bought them on mercado livre(ebay from latin américa) from a guy from São Paulo. I decided to ask the seller about the kits history because they were unopened NEW kits, and he told me they were from a store that went bankrupt 8 years ago, and the kits were never sold. I paid something like ~38 bucks shipped for both kits.
One of the kits is PC2-8500 rated at 5-5-5-15 2.3v and the other one is PC2-9200 5-5-5-12 2.3v.
All 4 ram modules uses Micron D9 chips, so i decided to bin and pick the 2 bests.
How i did this:
CPU: e8400
Mobo: Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p
Generic custom water cooling
cpu multi: 7x
Mem strap: 400mhz 3.33D (3:5 cpuz)
Stability test: Superpi 32M
Picked up one of the 1150mhz module and set it to its rated timings: 5-5-5-12 but dropped the voltage to 2.2v.
Subtimings on auto.
Started it by just raising fsb until system could not boot into windows anymore (BSOD).
Adjusted the timings to 5-6-6-15 keeping 2.2v.
Raised again fsb until BSOD, dropped 5mhz fsb, get into windows and tried to run sp32m.
If could not pass ("NOT EXACTLY IN ROUND" message), decrease 5mhz fsb and run it again until 100% clear sp32m run.
I did this procedure with all modules.
This are the results i got for now, will do a 2mhz more accurate bin step like Aleslammer did in his ddr2 binning thread.
This was the first time i binned ram, so any advices are welcome
Believe or not, this kits are NEW, never oppened. I bought them on mercado livre(ebay from latin américa) from a guy from São Paulo. I decided to ask the seller about the kits history because they were unopened NEW kits, and he told me they were from a store that went bankrupt 8 years ago, and the kits were never sold. I paid something like ~38 bucks shipped for both kits.
One of the kits is PC2-8500 rated at 5-5-5-15 2.3v and the other one is PC2-9200 5-5-5-12 2.3v.
All 4 ram modules uses Micron D9 chips, so i decided to bin and pick the 2 bests.
How i did this:
CPU: e8400
Mobo: Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p
Generic custom water cooling
cpu multi: 7x
Mem strap: 400mhz 3.33D (3:5 cpuz)
Stability test: Superpi 32M
Picked up one of the 1150mhz module and set it to its rated timings: 5-5-5-12 but dropped the voltage to 2.2v.
Subtimings on auto.
Started it by just raising fsb until system could not boot into windows anymore (BSOD).
Adjusted the timings to 5-6-6-15 keeping 2.2v.
Raised again fsb until BSOD, dropped 5mhz fsb, get into windows and tried to run sp32m.
If could not pass ("NOT EXACTLY IN ROUND" message), decrease 5mhz fsb and run it again until 100% clear sp32m run.
I did this procedure with all modules.
This are the results i got for now, will do a 2mhz more accurate bin step like Aleslammer did in his ddr2 binning thread.
This was the first time i binned ram, so any advices are welcome
