Digital storm certified ram

Does anyone know if it is just generic kind of ram? Or is it just random retail brands?

no i think they choose from whatever is in stock/the cheapest at the time, so the purpose of calling it dso ram is basically saying "you dont get to choose the brand" ram, much like the dvd/cd burners

I guess so. I mean the ram is most likely going to be good anyway but if u wanna spend 150 on a brand name thats ur choice. It is DS certified so if it isn't good u can change it anyway cos u have a warranty.
I think keep the DS certified and save that 150 for something better. But thats just my opinion

Oh thanks guys xD luckily I read this before i placed my order

Originally posted by GosuHyunwoo Does anyone know if it is just generic kind of ram? Or is it just random retail brands?

So did you decide what to do??

I am glad DS offers Corsair in new Flavors now.  The GT offering has some really sweet timing 7-7-7-20 and the color of the modules with the black and red look so nice paired with a evga classified board!  OH BILLY!   If you like looking through your computers side window at eye pleasing goodness with a high end name brand then you pay a few bucks extra, big deal.  If you dont care about looks or name, then get DS brand.

Originally posted by CBK Bodilly They just put the ds certified label on a not so certified type of ram

Where the hell did you get that idea?

What Ram does DS use right now for their Ram?  What is the average Latency ratings please?  The reason i like the new Corsair GT offering is the low low 7-7-7-20 timing

Ya SSD's are pretty important so you should consider spending alot on that

Wow but at least they replaced it!

There is no RAM that runs that ridiculous timings so, they should have ran your RAM at rated specs, but I have seen a few systems with those CAS 11 timings before, and it is not the RAM's fault, it is the person setting up the BIOS's fault.

Originally posted by jtwillia DS did NOT replace the memory.  I ordered the Mushkin kit online and paid for it myself.   Jeff

Edited by Alex - 04 Jun 2010 at 5:32pm

Jtwillia, as Justin already mentioned there is no RAM with that bad of timings, they were just set that way in the BIOS mistakenly by either DS or yourself. Specifically, those are the timings that a motherboard will often set when told to detect/set RAM speeds automatically.

For example, my DS computer arrived with the usual RAM timings of 9-9-9-24. Recently I decided to work on a Performance Profile to save in the BIOS should I ever need the extra horsepower for any particularly hard to run games or applications (the results of which are listed in my signature). First step I took was to just fish through the BIOS to familiarize myself with it and to write down on a piece of paper all the DS overclock settings for a reference. I didn't change any settings, I only selected them to see what the different selectable options where and whatnot, while I wrote down all the settings. So then I boot back into Windows and now CPU-Z reports my RAM timings as 11-11-11-29, whoops!

I wasn't even changing any settings but while fishing around in the options I tripped the BIOS auto detect setting for the RAM which resulted in the default slack timings, probably because it couldn't communicate with and find out what timings the RAM was supposed to run at. Anyway, it took all of 10 seconds to go back into the BIOS and manually set the timings back to 9-9-9-24.

I'm sorry to hear you purchased that Mushkin RAM. Granted the timings are a little better but considering you will have almost no performance gain from it, and you already have 6GB of perfectly fine 9-9-9-24 RAM, that is a horribly tragic waste of $265. For the same price you could of gotten an 80GB Intel SSD for OS/apps from DS, and if you don't already have an SSD I absolutely guarantee you would have vastly faster performance with it than the lower timing RAM.

Perhaps you have the option of getting a refund from Mushkin?

Originally posted by SemperFuzz Looks like Corsair GT 7-7-7-20 for me then.  Thanks

is that for 1600Mhz RAM?

Buggy forums i did not doulble post sorry

Edited by SemperFuzz - 05 Jun 2010 at 11:35pm