Advantages: Cheap for what it is Disadvantages: not backwards compatable with DDRI
GEIL stands for Golden Empire Industries Limited. They use Samsung RAM that they repackage and test for you. There are only three companies in the whole world that make RAM and lots that repackage it. GEIL is one of them.
You can get this type of RAM in 533Mhz form all the way up to 1000MHz form, and it seems excellent. I'm currently using two of these 1Gb sets and have found that they are both responsive and cool. They do not overheat like some ... ...Specifications : CAS 3-3-3-8
64x8 DDR2 FBGA Chips 240pin, Non-ECC, Un-buffered DDR2 SDRAM DIMM
Aluminum Heat-spreader
6 Layers Ultra Low Noises Shielded PCB Overview
The specifications show a good fast module and its good that the devices comes with noise shielding. However it must be said that this is the lowest speed of DDR2 available and as such is not the best performing. But for the money its a good price and it doesn't produce much heat ...
Jon_Farrimond 05.06.2006
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Advantages: heat spreaders keep ram cool, dual channel, nice performance. Disadvantages: some users may find 667mhz lacking performance.
...is cheap but also packs enough performace for exactly what i want it to do, so i am happy with my 2gb of geil ddr2 667mhz ram. Anyone looking for larger performance for high performance games, or power hungry vista may need to look at something a bit faster. ...
lukus92 17.07.2009
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