Ya know, as much as I like Crucial products I have read so many posts on these forums about people having problems with their memory I have to wonder what is going on?
Going back a few years Crucial/Micron were known for their solid reliable products, they didn't make the fastest memory but if you had Crucial under the hood you had one less thing to worry about, like there was no way in hell you would hear of faulty Crucial sticks.
Then Crucial launched their first performance memory Branded *Ballistix* available as either PC3200/DDR400/200MHz 2-2-2-8 or PC4000/DDR500/250MHz 3-3-3-12, we all went mad for it, at least I did, first £190 for a blisteringly fast 1GB (2x512MB) set of PC3200 followed by another £190 purchase for a 1GB (2x512MB) PC4000 kit.
It was during this Ballistix mania the first reports of failing memory cropped up, took about 9 months for my first kit to go bad (PC4000) which was quickly RMA'ed with the replacement sticks still running to this day.
I wonder who the heck at Crucial is responsible for letting this rather large batch of suspect chips slip into production? I mean I thought the chips (I.Cs?) went through a rigorous testing process before being shipped?
Some have suggested it may be motherboard manufacturers that are to blame for tuning their boards to over-volt the vDimm i.e set 2.2v in BIOS and the sticks receive 2.3v but then there are those people who have manually undervolted the RAM and still had problems.
I don't know but I would be interested to hear peoples views on the subject, I am still buying Crucial RAM and still getting good results but it appears to not be as bullet proof investment as it once was . . . unless the bulk of the forum posters are all OCZ/Corsair war-mongerers in disguise lol!
Come to think of it has there been any big news reports on any reputable websites covering the Crucial problems?
