GEIL EVO TWO PC3 19200
QUAD CHANNEL RAM
RRP: $145 | Website: http://www.geil.com.
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Intel Core i7 2600K
ASUS MAXIMUS IV Extreme
Plextor M3 256GB SSD
ANTEC HCP 1200 PSU
Windows 7 64-Bit
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t’s always interesting
how INTEL platforms
always manage to set the
new benchmark for the
“standard” memory amount
in people’s desktops. This is
also true for overclockers as
well because all of a sudden
16GB sets are all the rage
at least for performance
sets. As cheap as DRAM has
become though, 2400MHz
16GB sets are mostly selling
north of the $200 mark
and despite this being a
reasonable price it’s still
a lot of money to sink into
RAM in addition to all other
costs associated with the
X79 platform.
Good thing then we have
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sets like the GEIL EVO TWO
8GB 2400MHz kit. 8GB of
memory is still more than
most people will require
at present especially
for overclocking. 8GB of
memory, a PC3-19200 rating
and a $145 price tag, you
have a really cost effective
set for enthusiasts. For this
kind of money, the GEIL
EVO TWO is surprisingly
impressive. We had an
issue with the XMP profile
which would automatically
set timings that would not
POST on our particular
system, which would hang
the system at “31” on the
POST LED. After some
fiddling we realized that
the secondary settings
applied via X.M.P were too
aggressive. Oddly enough,
manual tuning of these,
using the recommended
settings allowed the system
to boot. The offending
settings were DRAM RAS
Value Award
# to RAS Delay and DRAM
READ to PRE Time. The XMP
profile configured both of
these settings to a value of
4, however the ideal settings
was 5 and 6 which fixed the
issue. After that it was pretty
easy going all the way to the
most comfortable limit of
our CPU IMC
The default timings of
11-11-11-30-2N are nothing
to write home about and
are quite loose to be
honest, however we quickly
realized that 10-11-10-281T was doable with a slight
adjustment in VDIMM. Setting
1.66V stabilized the system
and as result we got some
pretty good performance out
of the set. Sadly however this
was as low as we could go
because anything tighter than
this rendered the system
unable to POST.
Dropping the Memory
multiplier and selecting
1866MHz divider allowed