Ballistix rant!

After my GeiL uLL PC6400 broke down, two sticks at once(!!) I picked up Crucial Ballistix PC6400 4x1GB 4-4-4-12 sticks from an ebay guy in the US. Very cheap, sealed brand new and they work like a dream till now. No problems with them at all and they overclock easy. After reading this I get a bit worried lol :P So a lot of people are still RMA'ing these? :(
 
I've had 2GB of pc5300 running at stock speed at 2.1v for nearly a year now with no problems (I did run them at 2.2v for a month or two). The sticks were completely unstable at 1.8v and at 2.2v were quite toasty.
 
psychas said:
dint have anything with my balistix oced to 1066 at 4-4-4-12 fine or 1200 @ 5-5-5-15 of course i have this on top of it :
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mine bench up to 1275 with 1.4v :D best sticks of ram i've ever had the pleasure of owning, shame to here so many folks having problems with the newer sticks.
 
I'm gettin worried about mine now :o I dont overclock (so they're probably overkill anyway), so should I be ok with it? I have the Tracer 2gb kit.
 
V|per said:
Think some people have just been very unlucky with their ballistix.

Had 4x1GB running at 1200mhz 5-5-5-15 @ 2.2v for months and months without error, and 2GB of that would do 1400mhz 5-5-5-15 @ 2.25v...
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Oh yeah, these were the pc5300 flavour too ;)
 
same for me i've got 3 sets of 5300, one is the crucial anniversaries.

all overclocked with good airflow and no dramas with any of them, all 3 must be running 14mths+ 24/7
 
mr_x_plosion said:
How long does the RMA take? I posted mine to crucial yesterday, down to 2Gb now.
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Usually within 5 days of them receiving them. Often a lot sooner, but it depends on how busy they are and whether they have the memory in stock.

It's common for them to receive them on say a Monday, post them to you on the Tuesday, and you receive them on the Wednesday or Thursday.
 
Cheers Cob.

They will probably be back early part of next week then.

I have noticed the difference dropping back to 2Gb
 
Yep makeS me sick to think Overclockers sellS this duff rubbish, I also have brought 2X2gb 8500c5 of the tracer which has caused no end of problems, my GA 965P DS3 hated it, came to only running one stick so i brought a Asus pk5 premium and still gettting problems running 3 sticks as 4 causing crashes called overclocker.. put your nb votagre up , i have and still crashes, rubbish stuff should be recalled **** knows how it got those reviews in the first place, ocuk needs to sort it out make sure they dont buy bannana s in the future or at lest stick a massive warning on the rubbish "MASSIVE COMPATIBILITY ISSUES"
 
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Mine worked fine in a 965 DS3 and P35 DS3, only problem I had is 2Gb of it failing, didnt know there were that many compatability issues.
 
I have had 4 x 1Gb of 8500 ballistix tracer for about 6 months and have had no problems.

Dropped the voltage to 2.1V in bios as the mobo over volts by ~0.08V.

Although in my old comp i had 2 x 512mb of ddr3200 ballistix and one of those dimm's was as good as dead out of the box. But as already previously mentioned, Crucials RMA service is very good and i had a new dimm by the end of the week. These then ran flawlessly for 3+ years.....

I was under the impression that crucial were one of the only memory manufacturers who actually make there own memory, where as other companies like corsair, OCZ etc by there dimms in and then tweak them? Correct me if im wrong on this :)
If this is the case it would seem a little strange that they have such a high failure rate....
 
Crucial are owned by Micron, and therefore use Micron chips (D9's in the case of the Ballistix). But a fair few other companies use/used the same Micron chip too (Corsair, G.Skill, CellShock to name but a few).
 
Cob said:
Crucial are owned by Micron, and therefore use Micron chips (D9's in the case of the Ballistix). But a fair few other companies use/used the same Micron chip too (Corsair, G.Skill, CellShock to name but a few).
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In being owned by Micron surely Crucial would get to cherry pick their memory modules?
And if not, what are they doing to to make so many dimm's self destruct!? (although i've never really had a problem, so im just going on what other people have said)
 
Most people buying D9 based memory have had the sense to go to the source and buy Ballistix, so it's expected that the majority of problems have been Crucial related. But the other brands using D9 have been reported as failing too.
 
Seems to be a common problem. I've just put a 2x2GB kit of Crucial Ballistic Tracers in the post back to sunny Scotland. They also lasted a month before I started getting lots of memory errors and then hard drive corruption which finally killed my XP install.

In the event of the replacements turning out to be duff, what's a good choice to pair with a Gigabyte X38-DS4?
 
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