IMO too risky. if mine die again i'll just RMA and sell them on fleabay or elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by talldude
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IMO too risky. if mine die again i'll just RMA and sell them on fleabay or elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by talldude
Well, I think I may be dying yet again.
Seems it's either time to get some stock Crucial "value" RAM or some other company's performance RAM.
I'm thinking about trying out gskill. They have DDR 500 and 550 rate Samsung TCCD based DIMM's (or whatever the replacement is for TCCD).
I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do. I really want to do the higher memory bus speed, but then again, perhaps I should goto low latency DDR400 RAM...
For what it's worth, this pretty much confirms for me that Crucial should stick to what it knows best. Standard, ultra-compatible RAM that doesn't fail.
@ James, so you left them at 2.6V and they are still dying on you?
If that's so, that sucks. I just got my replacement set in yesterday, haven't installed them yet but I was planning on going the lower volt route myself this time. (Not that 2.78V was excessive with the first set, but they did crap out with that voltage)
Yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikead_99
2.6v 250MHz 3-3-3-7.
The timings were tighter than recommended. Maybe that's what killed them.
ebay them before you open them. that's what i'm going to do if mine go out again.
so far (knock on wood) my second set is running uber stable at 250 3-3-3-8 2.7v but they didn't like it when i pushed them into the low 260's. i didn't give it much effort and went back to 250 where i'm comfortable.
That's what happened with mine. They were rock solid. (The computer was literally running since I put them in, no down time.) Then yesterday, while I was surfing the Internet, boom. Blue screen. Tried to reboot, nothing. Put in my emergency 512MB stick, it booted right up.
For what it's worth, my 512MB stick is Crucial as well. It's just the tried and true crucial "value" line. :)
I read yesterday at XS that Crucial is about to stop selling ballistix 1GB sticks altogether. Anyone confirm? This is bad news.
Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I just wanted to confirm the last poster's question about Ballistix PC4000 1GB sticks no longer being offered by Crucial.
Oh, and another stick from my latest set has died. This time no over-volting, and no over-clocking. Bye-bye Crucial, hello OCZ!
ok, i had to post again in this thread, unfortunately.....
my second set just shat on me. these came directly from crucial via rma. i just got off the phone with them and they DO have some in stock, and they're supposedly a new revision which hasn't had any issues/returns yet. we'll see. i'm sending these back today or tomorrow. i know i've stated that i'll ebay the new set and buy another brand, but i'm tempted to give the new revision a try. these ran great for almost 6 months, then all of sudden i got system crashes w/ media player & it wouldn't even attempt to run memtest.
on a side note; even though the 2gb ballistix kits aren't listed on crucial's site, they do have them. also, they have 2gb tracers kits, although they're not listed on the site either. the tech guy was willing to give me the part number for the 2gb tracers if i was interested (i wasn't)
My 2 Gig Ballistix kit also died recently with both sticks producing too many errors to count!!!
The batch No. for both sticks = CL1115S.CF
Went with one of the G-Skill DDR500 2Gig kits, smooth running again :)
well, overclocking resulting in severe heat will cause gate-oxide decomposition in semiconductors which have a low dielectric constant in relation to how much heat is being applied. mild overlocking should be fine, but the heat is what really kills things.Quote:
Originally Posted by rabidmoose171
electron migration is caused when the flow of electrons is greater than what the circuit can handle. it's like you tip your cup back to drink something and then all the ice falls on your face and your drink goes everywhere.
when you overlock, it's a risk. it's become such common practice now, that a lot of people just expect it to work forever if they run some burn-in tests from 24hours to a week with no lockups. it's a really terrible faith to have. water-cooling is much better than air, but it is still far from perfect.
running pc4000 at 250mhz isn't overclocking it. that's what it should run at. i was even undervolting it a little. all i'm asking for is 1T timings that will keep a steady 10x250 setup going.