DH Review: Geil Gaming Series PC2-6400 Quad 4 GB

Zardon · Nov 6, 2007, 04:43 PM

Read The Review Here
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Well we all knew it would start happening sooner rather than later with the release of Vista. Matched 4GB Quad Kits. Grace takes a GEIL kit for a test drive today.

This makes GEIL one of the first manufacturers to sell kits which can populate all of your motherboard’s DIMM banks and raise the total RAM capacity to 8GB. We have such a kit for review today, the GB6400C5QC.

T3hn0 · Nov 6, 2007, 06:08 PM

nice review. but the price is now "only" 160€ od alternate.de

Zardon · Nov 6, 2007, 06:13 PM

must have been updated very recently ill alter the price thanks.

Judas · Nov 6, 2007, 06:30 PM

I was eyeing a set of quad.... kits.. .but i wasn't likeing the idea..

i'm sticking with the recently newly purchased

PC2 6400 2x2gb 5-6-6-18 OCZ kit.

OCZ2VU8004GK

PangingJr · Nov 7, 2007, 02:25 AM

nice product reviews.

2x2GB DDR2 Non-ECC kits are available widely now. if i can recall, 3-4 months ago they were much more expensive and not many available to choose from.
G.Skill has a new kit of DDR2-1000 and also reasonable price.

in 2006 DDR2 with ultra-low latencies are best for using in a gaming system, and these memory kits were very expensive (still expensive now, but some of the kits are hard to find now).
but now it has to be 4 GB kits that is more popular for gaming system builders.

niceguyrichy · Nov 7, 2007, 08:19 AM

great review Grace (when are you and I gonna get it together, really?)

how noticable an upgrade would this be to a 3.4G P4 running 1G DDR2 atm?
is it gonna be significant? it's mostly a gaming comp.

Grace · Nov 7, 2007, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niceguyrichy

great review Grace (when are you and I gonna get it together, really?)

how noticable an upgrade would this be to a 3.4G P4 running 1G DDR2 atm?
is it gonna be significant? it's mostly a gaming comp.

Sorry, I only have eyes for Zardon.

RAM improves the overall responsiveness of the system considerably. You can expect the loading/shutting down times to improve, as well as in-game responsiveness.

However, assuming that you have 2X512MB sticks now, you could get 2x1GB sticks of similar specifications and get to 3GB; this is quite a good upgrade, far more cost efficient and will help you raise money for another upgrade (see: cheap Core 2 Duo and P35 motherboard)

niceguyrichy · Nov 8, 2007, 01:30 PM

cool, ta for the advice Grace

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grace

Sorry, I only have eyes for Zardon.

I'm now officially heartbroken

Nov 6, 2007, 04:43 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	DH Review: Geil Gaming Series PC2-6400 Quad 4 GB Read The Review Here ____________________________ Well we all knew it would start happening sooner rather than later with the release of Vista. Matched 4GB Quad Kits. Grace takes a GEIL kit for a test drive today. This makes GEIL one of the first manufacturers to sell kits which can populate all of your motherboard’s DIMM banks and raise the total RAM capacity to 8GB. We have such a kit for review today, the GB6400C5QC.

Nov 7, 2007, 02:25 AM	#5
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 71	nice product reviews. 2x2GB DDR2 Non-ECC kits are available widely now. if i can recall, 3-4 months ago they were much more expensive and not many available to choose from. G.Skill has a new kit of DDR2-1000 and also reasonable price. in 2006 DDR2 with ultra-low latencies are best for using in a gaming system, and these memory kits were very expensive (still expensive now, but some of the kits are hard to find now). but now it has to be 4 GB kits that is more popular for gaming system builders. Last edited by PangingJr; Nov 7, 2007 at 02:50 AM.

Nov 6, 2007, 06:08 PM	#2
T3hn0 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Slovenia Posts: 65 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	nice review. but the price is now "only" 160€ od alternate.de

Nov 6, 2007, 06:13 PM	Thread Starter #3
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	must have been updated very recently ill alter the price thanks.