The memory is transported in independently preserved air tight antistatic bags which protect them throughout shipping until they installed in a system.

Firstly one thing you should identity is unique packaging of sticks. Geil ships Ultra X modules preserved in separately sealed anti-static bags, in a single blue acrylic container set around foam to decrease impact in shipping, or to probably look cool. Any way, it gives some safety and makes them be noticeable in a crowd packaging memory sticks.

When you take out modules from their package and anti-static bag, you will observe more quality. The sticks have tin covered with platinum copper heat spreaders which have a mirror end. Geil utilizes a unique mounting method to apply heat spreaders to memory modules, making them permanently attached to modules. This departs heat spreaders without mounting clips, building these easy and clean looking modules.

Geil also puts a temperature sticker that permits users to check temperature of their memory modules and also put Geil holomark logo to display rated speed of memory modules, latency, and model number, all to avoid counterfeiting, or users selling them off as high rated sticks.The temperature is placed on left of memory modules and displays operating temperature of memory. Hologram logo has speed and latencies written over it to avoid counterfeiting.

The guts of the Geil Ultra X

In heat spreaders really describes the performance features of Ultra X, PCB and Memory IC. The Ultra X utilizes a 6 layer Ultra Low Noises Shielded PCB with Gold 30u” Plating. This technology decreases amount of electrical noise that is there in all high-speed ICs. This results in quicker and steadier memory.

Geil has been creating Ultra X with two various IC’s, some modules have Samsung TCCD memory modules while others have Winbond BH5 UTT, these actually decide over clocking headroom and latencies of sticks.

UTT BH5 memory modules are able of running lowest latencies likely, while TCCD can run significantly more relaxed timing at faster clock speeds. Both modules have points where they stand out, but at the end performance is hardly noticeable in real world.