Question Anyone having trouble with G.Skill now?

[Shamrock]

I bought some 3800 ram from G.skill, had one defective. Replaced that with 3600mhz CL14
F4-3600C14D-16GTZNB TridentZ Neo. I paid $174 for this ram!

However, I received

F4-3200C14-8GTRG (with 16GTZNB stickers on packaging with serial numbers).

This new ram even has the 3600Mhz stickers and serial numbers as 3600mhz.
Asus' D.O.C.P. recognizes it as 3200 C14. Even Thaiphoon Burner and HWinfo says I have F4-3200C14-8GTRG TridentZ Royal Gold 14-14-14-34-48 / 1.35 V

2nd time this month I have to RMA G.Skill ram.

 

[razel]

Do the obvious. Return it.

 

[Kenmitch]

That sucks! Did you RMA with G.Skill or the vendor?

 

[Shamrock]

I still haven't received my refund for the first kit that was defective.

I have to RMA with Newegg

G.Skill's quality control is just gone.

 

[Kenmitch]

Hopefully Newegg will get you straightened out soon.

Was the stick in your 1st purchase DOA or did it just spit out errors? During my push for higher clocks I've found out that just 1 incorrect timing can produce errors or keep my rig from booting up at all.

I bought the Flare-X 3200 CL14 kit just before Zen2's launch and have had zero issues with it. I did run into 1-2 uEFI versions that didn't play nicely with b-die for some reason or another. Both the MB's I played around on had USB flashback so it was easy to revert back. It was kind of ironic as the notes stated enhanced memory compatibility.

Only reason I'm bringing the above up is because sometimes it's just the way the MB configures the ram. My son's Asus MB has a hidden memory bootup voltage in one of the sub-menus that needed to be set to the correct voltage also. By default it wasn't changing when memory voltage was changed.


I run my kit at 3600 CL14 @1.45v's 24/7 without any issues. I've played around all the way up to 4400MHz @1.5v's with my kit, but using a 3700x it's pointless thanks to the 1:2 memory divider. If I had built my rig using one of the bad uEFI versions I probably would have blamed the ram and rma'd it. It's possible I would have gotten a inferior set in return.

Anyways....Good luck on your adventure!

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[Shamrock]

First kit was DOA. Wouldn't even post.

I also have the FlareX kit (in my 2700x machine), and will have to use that RAM, until I get this RMA back.