1/5

posted Nov-20-2004

This is my 2nd, and last, purchase from this company. Purchased some high performance memory, that should of been very fast & very overclockable. The memory would not boot in my computer. The memory would not boot in anyone's computer. After many emails to customer service, with no response, I tried everything I could to get it to run on any machine. After setting the timings much slower than advertized I was able to get it to boot in my machine. It was advertized to run at CL2, I could get it to boot at CL3 & run stable. I ran some tests & found that This was GEIL CL3 memory that they had just overclocked to CL2. At CL3 it was stable. Tried to overclock my system 5%, the computer would not boot. Setting the timing to CL2.5, the computer would boot sometimes, but was very unstable. Other times it would give me an overclocking failure message & tell me to reset the settings in the BIOS. The tests I ran said that this was GEIL CL3 memory. SPD reported that it was set to run at CL2, but it won't. It won't even run close. I wanted to return the memory, but I can't get any response from them, at all. This memory was built to run on my motherboard chipset, Intel 865PE, but it will not run close to advertized speeds. Spend a little more & go with some HyperX or some OCZ memory. I know that they are fast & stable. Very unhappy with this memory & this company.

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