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The engine performance chips.they give you 50 more horse power and they can give you more miles per gallon.Do they work?

They work up to a point. you aren't going to turn a Yugo into a NASCAR racing machine. 50 hp increase is a little high. It's more like 3 hp increase per cylinder. An increase in HP comes at a price – fuel economy. There's only so much energy (BTUs) in a gallon of gasoline. you can surely bet the car manufacturers are tying to get the most out of a gallon of gas under the federal mandate. you can vary the fuel/air mixture (around 14 lbs air to 1 lb gasoline) to get more power or better economy. Unless the OEM chip is really bad, a new chip isn't going to be too noticeable. All of the positive review are from companies that sell or manufacture the chips. And everyone will tell you their is best.

Some of the increased performance may be an illusion.

There are a lot of "Chips" out there and it depends on what it's specifically designed to do that will decide your results. Your ECU is factory set to make your car run as optimally as possible while keeping to emission standards, VERY generalized driving conditions and so on. "Chipping" your ECU is doing nothing more than installing a new group of settings and run perimeters to make it tell your engine to use different amounts of fuel and air to run.

Now I bought an internal chip for my 95' Prelude and installed it, and didn't notice ANY difference. I didn't even bother to Dyno it and considered it a waste of $100. Then I bought another internal chip for it and it ended up adding about 20hp more power to the wheels, but ended up drinking my gas. I left it in despite the fact but I wish I hadn't bothered. There are many more cost effective ways to add power, that are easier to change out later.

However I also eventually bought a Power Programmer from Hypertech for my 99' F250 SD and I absolutely love it. Just installing a "Chip" into your stock ECU does work, but your locked into those new settings, whatever they are until you change to another chip. If your looking to just get a whole bunch of power, or just better mileage and not vary from those settings, then you can go with a chip. But if you want to be able to tailor your settings to how your going to be driving, then I would go with a Programmer instead of just Chipping your ECU.

I like how I could push a button and have more power for towing, then when I dropped the trailer, I could push another button and get great mileage for the trip back. it was more expensive than just buying a chip, but it was WELL worth it to be able to have my truck drive how I wanted it to, when I wanted it to. on my particular model of truck I was able to get another 60 to 70 HP out of the engine and an equally impressive rise in TQ when I set it for power. because it worked with my other power modifications I had already made to the engine better than the stock ECU settings could. so in turn I got a giant spike in stats when I ran the programmer.

Now there are a lot of different programmers with many different settings and formats. It's up to you to decide which will work best for what you need. However there are only 2 major differences in all of them. There are "Power Programmers" and "Real-Time Programmers". they all work and give you considerable results depending on the settings you chose. However the "Real-Time" programmers are more expensive but let you change your settings while you drive, without shutting the vehicle off to do the programming.

The typical programmer requires you to shut off the vehicle and spend about 10mins sitting there while the programmer loads the new settings group to your ECU. But the time it takes to sit there and do that is well worth the money you'll save by not getting a "Real-Time" programmer. With that said, it's also nice to not have to shut off the vehicle to get some more power when you need it.

Hope this helped you out.

Some do and some do not. I had a 1990 Chevrolet SS454 1/2 ton pick-up. I bought a Stage 3 chip for it, different Thermostat and a couple other things that were needed for the change. I went and measured a 1/4 mile stretch, timed it with a stop watch for 3 runs with it as it came from the factory. I took a day to change it over, and then took it out and ran it 3 times with the new chip and things. it was 2 seconds slower, and my fuel mileage dropped 2.3 miles per gallon after driving for two weeks and averaging it. When you are only getting 12.7 mpg to begin with, loosing 2.3 mpg and having a slower vehicle is not worth it. Changed everything back and threw out the Stage 3 Chip.

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I fitted one on my Range Rover TDV8 Vogue… The power gains are very noticable and so is the better fuel economy…

Hope this helps!

of course they don't work. they are like Dr Good's snake oil cure-all medicine. Notice that they are not available from any respectable auto parts retailers.

yes i had one on my dodge ram with the hemi and got around 22 miles to a gal with cold air and cat back exhaust i was up to about 450hp

yes they give you more power I don't know about more gas mileage

dont buy the jaw dropper brand from ebay they suck bad waste of money

no they dont work at all ripoff

If u use the aftermarket parts for maintenance, are they worth it? Please state the model n year of your car too.

Thanx.

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Table of Contents: Page Index G.Skill Sniper 1866 MHz DDR3 Memory Kit Closer Look: G.Skill Sniper 1866Mhz G.Skill F3-14900CL9D Specifications RAM Testing and Results Synthetic Benchmarks Application Benchmark Final Thoughts and Conclusion Page 1 of 7

RAM is one of the basic building blocks of a computer system, and although the technology has changed over the years the same basic idea of quick temporary storage has been RAM’s main purpose since its inception. Gamers have always wanted the fastest speeds possible but unfortunately, that meant that many of the fastest kits were very expensive. Since the introduction of DDR3 prices have plummeted and speeds have skyrocketed and a good set of 2 x 4GB RAM can be had for under $150. G.Skill understands this and has SKU’s designed for every price range. G.Skill’s most recent addition is its Sniper series of which we will be looking at the 1866Mhz F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR kit which is well priced $104.99 providing users above average speeds with relatively tight 9-10-9-28 timings. Benchmark Reviews will determine if this RAM is worth its price or if users are better off getting slower, less expensive SKU’s.

Years ago using the fastest possible memory was the only way to get the full potential out of a processor. this is because in the days before Sandy Bridge getting the highest clock possible was achieved using a combination of changing the clock multiplier and increasing the FSB or base clock. Because changing these also increased the base speed of the memory using the fastest memory possible was only the only way to push a processor to its upper limits. But things have changed since the Sandy Bridge platform debuted, the only effective way to overclock is to increase the clock multiplier of the K SKU’s meaning that memory speed is less important for overclocking and therefore companies are concentrating on dropping prices and timings to compete with each other. As prices have dropped, users have started demanding more RAM for their systems. With that in mind G.Skill introduced the Sniper series with speeds ranging from 1333Mhz to 1866Mhz and designed specifically for Sandy Bridge users by utilizing speeds that are divisible by 266.6Mhz.

Benchmark Reviews wants to provide the most accurate information on the performance of components to its readers and therefore has a very specific way in which tests are run on components. for RAM, each set is run first run through Memtest86+ at its advertised speed to insure that that there are no errors. once passed a combination of synthetic and application based benchmarks will be run a total of three times each. once the results have been acquired the worst score of each test will be thrown out and the final two will be averaged resulting in the final score that will be presented to our readers.

Manufacturer: G.Skill Product Name: Sniper Model Number: F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR Price As Tested: $104.99 at Newegg

Full Disclosure: the product sample used in this article has been provided by G.Skill.