Is a lot of memory failing at the moment?

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I realise that this will attract the people who have failures more than others but hey....

recently one of my mates has sent a total of 3 dimms back from a 2dimm kit due to failure and ive read a lot about failures from the forum, is now a bad time to buy ram because of this?

And does anyone have ideas of why this is happening soo much more recently?

Or is it just me talking garbage?
 
Ram fails.... has been happening since time began ;).

I've not really heard anything about more failures recently, so can't see it being a bad time in that respect. Although it is hard for an end user to gauge, retailers and manufacturers will be the ones with that data. I expect most won't want to share it with the general public anyways.
 
The only ram ive had fail was crucial and corsair, only buy ocz theese days. When you buy crucial, particularly ballistix kits, you know your gonna have to rma, (service is very good, theyre used to it). Only use ocz now, particularly their reaper kits.
 
corsair has failed me couple time and so has ocz too but i do like the rma so i stick with them, because i got nothing to lose, now if there was not warranty i would be upset, we all should be happy they have lifetime warranty
 
The only memory that had agood failer rate was Crucail DDR2 about a year or so back. Using Patriot 6GB DDR3 tri-channel kit can't fault it, not heard of any failure's in this forum, plus it's well used by OCUK in their bundle's so it's got to be good.:)
 
My 4 month old G-Skills recently died. Replaced with Geil black dragons which were doa. Fitting another set this morning so fingers crossed! lol

Edit: second set of black dragons failed. The only memory tahts been rock solid is some vdata. may get a second stick of this now. 3 matched pair sets have now failed! Lol
 
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I just had my first stick fail in 5 years, was a crucial ballistix tracer, BUT RMA only took 4 Business days...and was updated via email, at all points.
 
I use corsair in all my builds and in all the builds I do for family and friends. Number of failed sticks is 0 out of more than 50.
 
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Ram fails.... has been happening since time began ;).

I've not really heard anything about more failures recently, so can't see it being a bad time in that respect. Although it is hard for an end user to gauge, retailers and manufacturers will be the ones with that data. I expect most won't want to share it with the general public anyways.
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ram rarely ever used to fail if anything its something that started happening a lot since ddr2
 
Ram has always been one of the most likely parts to fail, but yes there are of course more failures as manufacturers push the boundries of whats possible, but that is to be expected.
 
yeah had massive trouble with some ddr3 triple ripsaw memory from OC back the arse end of last year, so did a few other, i guess just a bad batch, shame really liked the look of the blue ripsaw sticks
 
Probably. Ram doesn't like heat, and it's bloody hot at the moment.

I've bought a fair few (six? eight? something below ten anyway) sets of ocz ram. I've had a couple fail, rma speed and competence was astonishing so I'll buy from them again. Doubt I'll even look at another brand, customer loyalty based on brilliant rma experience seems reasonable to me.

Ram seems to be inherently fragile, sadly.
 
yeah, there have been a lot of threads about failed ram, especially OCZ gear - which is a shame, they were the main reason I didn't buy a kit for my new rig. My GSkills seem OK atm though *crosses fingers*
 
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