Memory RMA ....What do you do ???

chaparral · 15 Oct 2008 at 19:25

When your memory fails and you need to RMA it

1) Do you buy another set of memory to use while waiting for the RMA replacement memory to be returned..

2) Or do you just go without your PC till the RMA replacement memory returns...

ConTRo13R · 15 Oct 2008 at 19:30

Im sure most people have many spares hanging around, i certainly have

Rroff · 15 Oct 2008 at 19:43

I have a set of corsair value select stuff that I keep incase of RMAing was like £10.99 for 1gig at the time - not bad stuff for OCing either its rated CAS5 but does CAS4 on stock voltage fine and will do over 800MHz at CAS5. Yes I had to try OCing some backup value RAM even

Infact I'd rate is far higher than their XMS stuff which imo is the Gordon Brown of RAM dull, boring and faulty :S if it (the value select stuff) had slightly tighter timings and a nice heat spreader I'd prolly run it instead of most performance RAM.

Plus I always have more than one PC so if one is out of action I wouldn't be without a PC.

chaparral · 15 Oct 2008 at 19:57

ConTRo13R said:
Im sure most people have many spares hanging around, i certainly have

I most have about a million PC spares hanging around...........But no DDR2

Have about 3gb of DDR1 laying around

ConTRo13R · 15 Oct 2008 at 20:31

chaparral said:
I most have about a million PC spares hanging around...........But no DDR2 Have about 3gb of DDR1 laying around

Always the bleeding way that isn't it lol it only take a couple weeks, question is...can you survive lol

WJA96 · 15 Oct 2008 at 21:02

If I ever drop below 3 working PCs I get withdrawal symptoms

setter · 15 Oct 2008 at 21:23

I always have a 2x1gb set of cheapo pc5300 on standby incase the good stuff go's kaput

, Thankfully ive never had the need to use it.