crudallistix

My first pair of 5300's went **** up a while back. Well, one stick did.

RMA'd fine and now got another set. 4x1gb 2.2v 5-5-5-15 @ 953 so far :P

If you take the heatspreaders off, wont that invalidate the warranty?
 
Gethzemane said:
almost certainly will have been down to your motherboard going pop. The lower the better tbh, try at 2.0v and work your way up in .05 step until you find a stable set up. For example mine are rock solid at 2.05 and that's on a overclocked set-up, but some have found even lower volts to work fine.



Probably because they have a huge sell through via various resellers and only a small percentage of returns?, its just you get to hear about some of those returns on boards such as this. It's worth remembering the majority of ocuk's customers probably never post on this forum or even know of its exsistence add to that most happy customers never coming looking for answers.....(the bigger picture as they say)
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Just for balance's sake, I've been running 2 x 1GB sticks of Tracer 8500 for 9 months now at speeds of up to 1200Mhz with no problems. Have just updated to 4 x 1GB after purchasing an extra 2gb from the MM, and they are running fine at 1000Mhz.
 
My system came with x2 1Gb sticks of ballistix and bought x2 more and stuck them in yesterday, no BSOD's and work fine. Single sided i assume as well, bought from crucial.

Just gotta get some coin together now to go x64 Vista as im losing 700mb of ram atm on x86 vista. All in all PC runs like a dream on this memory. (*touches my noggin)
 
people saying abotu the g.skill stuff, but i am yet to see someone with the 2x2GB PC6400 g.skill stuff. anyone got one? stable? do they like high Voltages or low? good OCers?
 
I bought a 2nd set of pc6400 ballistix so that I wouldnt have any down time for RMA. RMA'ed first set and have them unused next to my monitor. The 2nd set which I used, I have just upped the voltage by 0.05v vdimm since project reality was crashing too much. They are at 2.1v according to speedfan. I think there is a degradation of the memory hence having to up the volts to remain stable whereas it first looked stable.

I ran first set at 1150Mhz 555 15 iirc. This time I am running stock 800Mhz DDR with 444 12 timings. However stock needed >2v right off the bat.
 
Oddly enough I had dual sided (the good stuff apparently) PC5300 Ballistix (2x1GB and 2x512mb sticks), and had to send in 4 RMAs in the space of 9 months. Over the course of the RMAs the 512mb sticks were replaced with single sided sticks. They have been rock solid ever since (stock speed, 3-3-3-10 at 2v) while one of the dual sided 1gb sticks went pop again last week. The single sided ones also run noticably cooler in my rig for some reason...
 
Is ballistix advertised wrong? I'm running at the advertised 2.2v and i cant keep windows running more than 5 mins with all 4gb installed. I'm not even trying to reach the 1066mhz it's meant to do; i would settle for 800mhz if it was stable.

Asus P5ne-32 sli, Q6600, 4xballsitix ddr2 8500.
 
I'm sad to say it and have watched a lot of these ballistix are crap theads and wondered what the hell people are talking about but my 2x2gb tracer reds have gone mad. Bsods started tonight and i soon tried them at stock settings (they have never been run above stock voltages set manually). Put in my trusty 10th anniversary and bobs your uncle no problems. i will rma tomorrow i am dissapointed to say the least :(
 
smilertoo said:
Is ballistix advertised wrong? I'm running at the advertised 2.2v and i cant keep windows running more than 5 mins with all 4gb installed. I'm not even trying to reach the 1066mhz it's meant to do; i would settle for 800mhz if it was stable.

Asus P5ne-32 sli, Q6600, 4xballsitix ddr2 8500.
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do either or both pairs work fine when installed alone? i.e just one set of matched pairs? 1Gbx2 rather than 1Gbx4?
 
Looks like my newly bought Tracer 8500's are duff, can't get them to last more than 1% before errors in any memtest program :(
Seems that their QA is not quite 100%

Oh well, sent off an RMA request to OcUK.
 
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