GeIL PC4000 Platinum Series DDR Memory Review

Under the tin-plated copper heat spreaders we find that Geil use 3.5ns DRAM (GL3LC32G88TG-35, sorry no tech doc can be found) TSOP-II DRAM. The heat spreaders seemed to work pretty well as the memory got quite hot in our Intel test system when we were overclocking. With our AMD test system we plugged the GeIL PC4000 memory into the DIMM slots and encountered problems right from the get go. It seems like the GeIL PC4000 Platinum Series memory did not like the aggressive settings we were using (2-2-2-5) and would lock up while booting WindowsXP - even if only running at PC3200 DDR memory speeds. Giving the memory more juice did not seem to help as we up'ed the voltage to 2.9V to try and stabilize the system. Lowering the timings to 2-3-3-6 solved all the problems so for this review we ran the memory at 2-3-3-6 instead of our usual 2-2-2-5.