B Grade ram worth the risk?

MeatLoaf

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Can't see any reason why not. It'll come with some warranty still. Not the type of ram that's likely been returned due to lack of overclocking capability either.

Perhaps run memtest on it when you get it for peace of mind.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Just wondering what would make it b grade? Maybe not a great overclocker but i only plan to run it at 3200 anyhow.
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Unfortunately we'll never know, but if it works fine at spec for the 90 days you get, I'd feel reasonably confident it'll last. Personally I'd rather not for £20, but for a purely gaming system I'd care less.

You could make an offer and see if they'll come down a bit.
 
Tetras said:
Unfortunately we'll never know, but if it works fine at spec for the 90 days you get, I'd feel reasonably confident it'll last. Personally I'd rather not for £20, but for a purely gaming system I'd care less.

You could make an offer and see if they'll come down a bit.
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Definitely look at the Latest News B Grade thread and consider putting an offer.
 
It's what your willing to accept. I build all my computers wearing anti-static strap and won't even touch gold contracts due to grease / dirt getting on them. It only takes one cell to become damaged and that will cause random errors, someone could have even overvolted it trying to overclock. B grade you have no idea how the memory was handled and what was done with it, for £20 it's not worth the risk.
 
Funnily enough, I've just recently bought two B-Grade kits from OC - the first was a 2x8GB Team Group kit for a friend's build which passed an overnight MemTestPro run so I'm confident it'll work just fine.

The second was a 2x8GB Corsair kit for my own PC and that one shows errors in MemTestPro - since Corsair offers a limited lifetime warranty I've just written to OC to see if they can RMA it to Corsair for me - hopefully I'll hear from them after all the jubilee shenanigans :)
 
Aegis said:
The second was a 2x8GB Corsair kit for my own PC and that one shows errors in MemTestPro
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One of the issues is that chips can be 'wounded' so you could have a integrated circuit that passes the test, but can still give random errors.

The 3 things I will never buy second hand / returned are memory, CPU's and motherboards. If you have intermittent crashes you are always wondering has something been damaged.
 
JasonM said:
The 3 things I will never buy second hand / returned are memory, CPU's and motherboards. If you have intermittent crashes you are always wondering has something been damaged.
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I understand why people might be wary, but there's a wealth of great diagnostic tools available for free to PC builders and I've built several complete PC systems using mostly B-Grade or 2nd-hand parts that have worked perfectly and reliably.

The only thing I insist on being new is the storage (and preferably, the PSU).
 
Aegis said:
I understand why people might be wary, but there's a wealth of great diagnostic tools available for free to PC builders and I've built several complete PC systems using mostly B-Grade or 2nd-hand parts that have worked perfectly and reliably.

The only thing I insist on being new is the storage (and preferably, the PSU).
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They don't always pick things up.

Many years ago OCUK had a weekend special on i7 3770K OEM CPU's, there was maybe 300 they were selling.

I purchased one and that processor was never correct, it would run for hours then computer crash. But it passed the full Intel CPU test, I can only conclude someone had used that CPU and maybe overvolted it, and there was some very subtle damage done to it.
 
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