February 28, 2011 at 01:00"Good memory". Review of GoodRAM Play DDR3-1600
Staying in sincere confidence that all computer components are manufactured in China and Taiwan is typical for those who are used to buying ready-made configurations in electronics hypermarkets. For those who are oriented on the market, it is known that both the USA and Europe have their own manufacturers, such as Kingston, Mushkin, Buffalo. RAM GoodRAM is made in Poland. This is essentially the only major brand based in Eastern Europe and the more interesting it is to see how good the products of this company are.
The kit is designed to operate in three-channel mode in systems based on Intel Socket 1366. The nominal frequency has been increased to 1600 MHz. The memory is aimed at the market of enthusiasts and gamers.
The kit comes in a plastic blister with a transparent cover. Through it, you can consider memory modules, but why consider them through plastic? Also on the box there is a sticker with the characteristics of the memory and the logo of the company.
Planks are made on blue textolite. The thin aluminum radiators are painted black and carry the Play logo. Workmanship at a height, neatly painted radiators, high-quality soldering of elements are pleasing to the eye.
I didn’t take off the cooling system, since the risk was too high to tear off the memory chip along with the heat sink, but according to information received from the manufacturer, micron production chips marked D9 were used in the production. Presumably D9KPT.
In order to evaluate the capabilities of RAM, the following stand was assembled:
A feature of the modules is the lack of an XMP profile, which means that all settings for operating at a frequency of 1600 MHz are provided to the user. On the manufacturer’s website GoodRAM there is a datasheet for this memory, in it, as working, timings 8-11-11-29 are indicated with a supply voltage of 1.5V.
For tests, I will use 4 modes.
Verification of the maximum possible frequency was carried out at voltages from 1.6 to 1.85 V in increments of 0.05V.
As you can see, the memory reacts quite vigorously to increased voltage, relaxation of the timings, so that it beneficially affects the frequency, but performance is lost.
The recommended price of such a kit is only 87 USD, which, against the background of the general price level, is very inexpensive.
The modules are well overclocked, can work with fairly low timings at frequencies up to 1800 MHz with a supply voltage of 1.75V.
Buying GoodRAM Play will be a justifiable and “smart choice.”
The kit is designed to operate in three-channel mode in systems based on Intel Socket 1366. The nominal frequency has been increased to 1600 MHz. The memory is aimed at the market of enthusiasts and gamers.
The kit comes in a plastic blister with a transparent cover. Through it, you can consider memory modules, but why consider them through plastic? Also on the box there is a sticker with the characteristics of the memory and the logo of the company.
Planks are made on blue textolite. The thin aluminum radiators are painted black and carry the Play logo. Workmanship at a height, neatly painted radiators, high-quality soldering of elements are pleasing to the eye.
I didn’t take off the cooling system, since the risk was too high to tear off the memory chip along with the heat sink, but according to information received from the manufacturer, micron production chips marked D9 were used in the production. Presumably D9KPT.
In order to evaluate the capabilities of RAM, the following stand was assembled:
- Processor - Intel Core i7 970 (3.2 GHz, 12 Mb cache)
- Motherboard - EVGA Classified E760, Intel X58 chipset
- RAM - GoodRAM Play DDR3-1600 3 * 2048Gb
- Video card - Point Of View GeForce GTX480 Ultra Charged TFC
- Power Supply - Enermax Revolution 85+ 1020W
- Hard Drive - ADATA SSD S599 100Gb
A feature of the modules is the lack of an XMP profile, which means that all settings for operating at a frequency of 1600 MHz are provided to the user. On the manufacturer’s website GoodRAM there is a datasheet for this memory, in it, as working, timings 8-11-11-29 are indicated with a supply voltage of 1.5V.
For tests, I will use 4 modes.
- 8-11-11-27
- 8-8-8-24
- 9-9-9-27
- 10-11-10-30
Verification of the maximum possible frequency was carried out at voltages from 1.6 to 1.85 V in increments of 0.05V.
As you can see, the memory reacts quite vigorously to increased voltage, relaxation of the timings, so that it beneficially affects the frequency, but performance is lost.
The recommended price of such a kit is only 87 USD, which, against the background of the general price level, is very inexpensive.
The modules are well overclocked, can work with fairly low timings at frequencies up to 1800 MHz with a supply voltage of 1.75V.
Buying GoodRAM Play will be a justifiable and “smart choice.”
