Hi,

So I have a few plan to OC some DDR3 platform and thus I aimed to acquire corresponding hardware, with a few exceptions everything has been going more or less smooth got myself a bunch of mobos that should do the job for every DDR3 socket out there (gotta admit I was fully expecting having to pay scalper price for that P5E3 Premium but no got a P5E64 WS Evo for 30 bucks instead so that's good, just gonna most likely have to learn how to delid an X48 chipset before I get around to using it seriously), as well as a bunch of CPU to play around with obviously (Still missing an L3014 from the wishlist but I think I can get one for a reasonableish price).

And then came the time to shop for RAM, being a noob I didn't know much so I went for I went off random recs, at first it was Samsung 2GB D-Die, found a bunch of that for not too much money, but then I found out about Samsung 1GB G-die, was harder and not as cheap but still found a bunch, then got told that Gdie is not where it's at but PSC 1GB is where it's at, was pretty cheap to find a lot of that so I got myself a bunch, but then I came to the realization that Phenom II and LGA775 don't do high memory speeds and you want 2000ish with real tight timings so obviously went looking for what was best for that, that being Elpida Hyper, thus start the problem, those damn things are unobtainium (or I'm being a bit silly and somehow can't find something that's right under my nose), over the course of a few months only could find sticks that probably weren't Hyper or single loose sticks for outrageous amounts of money (I might really want Elpida Hyper, doesn't mean I'm willing to spend 200 bucks on a single stick, missed an ebay auction that would've had what I wanted but it went way over what I could afford anyways), though to myself "well what's the next best thing then", D9GT Microns seemed to be the answer, but that's even worse to find as I seemingly couldn't find a single stick on anything (and I'm looking everywhere I could think off including foreign secondhand marketplaces).

So that leaves me with little choice than to ask for advice, where do you get Elpida Hyper at a somewhat tolerable price, I don't need the godbin, I just want 2 or 3 sticks that do 1000Mhz 7-6-5 at a voltage that won't fry the sticks in a single bench session and that won't make my bank account cry tears of blood

tl;dr: Want Elpida Hyper, can't find, what do?

P.S.

I do have the opportunity to grab those sticks

But I recall reading 0690 in the S/N while it will always appear on Elpida Hyper sticks, it only is for bins only it can really do (so 1866C7/2000C8 etc),and if it's a worse bin it's BDBG (iirc might be wrong, doesn't matter not Hyper is the thing) which isn't the case here, so Hyper or not Hyper?

Edited June 6Jun 6 by TransparentBlue
small correction

What country?

Generally, Elpida Hyper is high demand and many buy it to have backups (as Elpida continue failing even these days). Corsair 2000c8 (cmg6gx3m3a2000c8 rev 2.1) and kingston (khx2000c8d3t1k3) are most common Elpida kits.

D9GTR should be available in xms3 1600 kits (1gb, 1.9v+ rated rev. 3.1).

4 hours ago, TransparentBlue said:

Hi,

So I have a few plan to OC some DDR3 platform and thus I aimed to acquire corresponding hardware, with a few exceptions everything has been going more or less smooth got myself a bunch of mobos that should do the job for every DDR3 socket out there (gotta admit I was fully expecting having to pay scalper price for that P5E3 Premium but no got a P5E64 WS Evo for 30 bucks instead so that's good, just gonna most likely have to learn how to delid an X48 chipset before I get around to using it seriously), as well as a bunch of CPU to play around with obviously (Still missing an L3014 from the wishlist but I think I can get one for a reasonableish price).

And then came the time to shop for RAM, being a noob I didn't know much so I went for I went off random recs, at first it was Samsung 2GB D-Die, found a bunch of that for not too much money, but then I found out about Samsung 1GB G-die, was harder and not as cheap but still found a bunch, then got told that Gdie is not where it's at but PSC 1GB is where it's at, was pretty cheap to find a lot of that so I got myself a bunch, but then I came to the realization that Phenom II and LGA775 don't do high memory speeds and you want 2000ish with real tight timings so obviously went looking for what was best for that, that being Elpida Hyper, thus start the problem, those damn things are unobtainium (or I'm being a bit silly and somehow can't find something that's right under my nose), over the course of a few months only could find sticks that probably weren't Hyper or single loose sticks for outrageous amounts of money (I might really want Elpida Hyper, doesn't mean I'm willing to spend 200 bucks on a single stick, missed an ebay auction that would've had what I wanted but it went way over what I could afford anyways), though to myself "well what's the next best thing then", D9GT Microns seemed to be the answer, but that's even worse to find as I seemingly couldn't find a single stick on anything (and I'm looking everywhere I could think off including foreign secondhand marketplaces).

So that leaves me with little choice than to ask for advice, where do you get Elpida Hyper at a somewhat tolerable price, I don't need the godbin, I just want 2 or 3 sticks that do 1000Mhz 7-6-5 at a voltage that won't fry the sticks in a single bench session and that won't make my bank account cry tears of blood

tl;dr: Want Elpida Hyper, can't find, what do?

P.S.

I do have the opportunity to grab those sticks

But I recall reading 0690 in the S/N while it will always appear on Elpida Hyper sticks, it only is for bins only it can really do (so 1866C7/2000C8 etc),and if it's a worse bin it's BDBG (iirc might be wrong, doesn't matter not Hyper is the thing) which isn't the case here, so Hyper or not Hyper?

You can never be 100% sure with g.skill.
The decoding does not tell you exactly which chips were used.

The 06 prefix just points to Elpida manufacturer

The next 2 digits , in theory could lead to a uncertain point out ... being

30 Hyper
40 BBSE
90 BDBG

But ... it was not consistent back then.
There were exceptions.

At some point , we were just choosing low latency ram kits to be sure they were hypers.

Also put the timeline into the mix (When each chip was produced).
You are looking for early production dates (2008 , 2009) to be more sure.

A 2011 production date (like the one in the photo) must have been the Elpida leftover chips before Micron acquired them (so most probably BDBG)

Also from personal experience .... g.skill + hyper + black pcb = no way.

read DMs. Maybe I can help

5 hours ago, TerraRaptor said:

What country?

I'm in France, but I went out of my way to look internationally (that's what proxy shopping sites are for and I've already made good use of them tracking down a couple things)

5 hours ago, TerraRaptor said:

cmg6gx3m3a2000c8

Well I did find a couple 7.1A kits and one unknown one (I'm not gonna pay the 180 asked to find out and the seller has answered when asked)

5 hours ago, TerraRaptor said:

D9GTR should be available in xms3 1600 kits (1gb, 1.9v+ rated rev. 3.1).

Would that only be the grey heatspreader XMS3 with a purple and yellow sticker or are the blue and black ones also potentially carrying that? Because I've looked at a lot of the former, found pretty much every other rev (besides 4.1)

3 hours ago, TASOS said:

A 2011 production date (like the one in the photo) must have been the Elpida leftover chips before Micron acquired them (so most probably BDBG)

Also from personal experience .... g.skill + hyper + black pcb = no way.

Figured as much, thanks for confirming my suspicions

4 hours ago, TransparentBlue said:

Well I did find a couple 7.1A kits and one unknown one (I'm not gonna pay the 180 asked to find out and the seller has answered when asked)

7.1 are PSC

You are looking for Version 2.1 for Hypers

I think I might have a hit

8 hours ago, TransparentBlue said:

I think I might have a hit

The odds are against you.

I think this is MNH-E hyper, subject to have a death rate of almost 100%

7 minutes ago, TerraRaptor said:

I think this is MNH-E hyper ....

Only if they are CL7

The modules in the photo , have a G8 code.

edit

Sticks with CL8 can be Hypers or BASE (you could never be sure back then , because manufacturers were changing chips according to availability).

Edited June 9Jun 9 by TASOS

1 hour ago, TASOS said:

Sticks with CL8 can be Hypers or BASE

Both options (MNH-E or BASE) are not worth the money paid.

Well, worst case I get cool looking heatsinks and I think the PCBs are also good if I ever do wanna make my own sticks from scratch, the price was not too bad

I had 1866 adata's and they were hyper (mnh-e), but were probably the worst hypers I've ever had. It's better than nothing, I guess, but don't set your expectations too high.

Found images in my old sell thread (P/N ending in DP2, instead of TP2)

On 6/9/2026 at 10:04 AM, TerraRaptor said:

I think this is MNH-E hyper, subject to have a death rate of almost 100%

I have to back you up on this , 😃

On 6/9/2026 at 6:15 PM, TransparentBlue said:

Well, worst case I get cool looking heatsinks and I think the PCBs are also good if I ever do wanna make my own sticks from scratch, the price was not too bad

On 6/9/2026 at 11:18 AM, TerraRaptor said:

Both options (MNH-E or BASE) are not worth the money paid.

Pricing , will always be subjective.
The same item can be cheap for one person and expensive for an other.

From my point of view (when i saw that add) .... the ammount asked + shipment from Japan + custom duties to France ... seemed over-priced.

Anyway , it's none of our business.

On 6/9/2026 at 6:30 PM, I.nfraR.ed said:

I had 1866 adata's and they were hyper (mnh-e), but were probably the worst hypers I've ever had. It's better than nothing, I guess, but don't set your expectations too high.

Found images in my old sell thread (P/N ending in DP2, instead of TP2)

Just for the history , (to leave our mark in this thread)

For the Adata Plus series

DP2 points to dual channel kit

TP2 points to triple channel kit

1 hour ago, TASOS said:

941 MNH lol

Well the good news is, it's not dead

Not sure it's even Hyper though.

The bad news is even if it's hyper it's not stable at XMP (1866 8-8-8 1.65v) and even pushing RAM voltage a bit doesn't change much

EDIT:

Well it is hyper, not quite sure what the heck was happening over at A-DATA but all those are from the same stick

Edited June 22Jun 22 by TransparentBlue
Confirmation of hypothesis

sometimes you get partial faulty chips. i have one stick of mnh posting fine and even at 1050mhz 6-7-5 but wont boot into windows because exactly 1 ic is on its way out

Final verdict is

1920 7-7-7-21 @ 2.2v for stick 1

1866 7-7-7-21 @ 2.2v for stick 2

1 hour ago, TransparentBlue said:

Final verdict is

1920 7-7-7-21 @ 2.2v for stick 1

1866 7-7-7-21 @ 2.2v for stick 2

You are very brave .... feeding MNH with 2.20 volt

As for the different date chips on the pcb ... that's no news 😄