Best Newegg Description Ever.

[CurseTheSky]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820148252

"DDR3 Ballistix Tracer w/ red blinky lights"

Rofl.

 

[n7]

epic win :laugh:

I'm screenshotting that.

 

[Rubycon]

Been around forever. Crappy overpriced RAM. :|

I burned up lots of the DDR2 variety -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9jnBv75tk&

They say the DDR3 variety is fixed. Too bad they're extremely over priced. Got 12GB Corsair Dom's doing 8-8-8-24-1T at 1650 (206 bclk*21) flawless.

If I want kinky lights I'll get a lavalamp!

 

[n7]

So much anger :heart:

It's completely different technology not to mention different ICs in their DDR3 as opposed to their DDR2

Though i can somewhat understand...there was much Micron DDR2 D9GMH failing.
Really though, it's due to them rating them for higher voltage than they should have been...

It could happen with DDR3 too...in fact so far, it seems some of the most excellent Elpida Hyper suffers from similar issues.
Anything much over default = premature failure down the road.

 

[Rubycon]

Though not really related to actual failure...

One has to wonder about signal abnormalities and spurious "pollution" caused by those tracers. In the box there's so much noise that it's hard to determine outside of using hundreds of thousands of dollars of analysis equipment. One thing's for sure: they'll never make FBDIMMS with 'em!

My DD3 runs much cooler in comparison - 68C vs. 39C. :Q

 

[n7]

If not due to failure, why the hate on your Ballistix?

Other than their rather high rate of epic failure, they were generally considered very good.

In fact, before it became apparent they had issues, they were hugely recommended & popular due to cheapness & overclockability...

 

[Rubycon]

I don't believe the LEDs contributed to the high failure rates...

Perhaps good when they worked but not practical. One should never have to periodically run a memory test when their system experiences a crash to find tens of thousands of errors per minute! Over and over, set after set. Might as well run 75GXPs in RAID0 backing up to Maxtor drives on VIA usb controllers! :laugh:

 

[CurseTheSky]

Eh. I've had epic fails with all brands. I bought a set of Corsair DDR2 Dominators (the DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 ones, much cheaper than the "extreme" Dominator sets) because they had very good reviews (many said handpicked Micron D9s). What I got were the newer revision (v2.1) with ProMos chips. They didn't overclock for crap.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: CurseTheSky
Eh. I've had epic fails with all brands. I bought a set of Corsair DDR2 Dominators (the DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 ones, much cheaper than the "extreme" Dominator sets) because they had very good reviews (many said handpicked Micron D9s). What I got were the newer revision (v2.1) with ProMos chips. They didn't overclock for crap.

This is why you don't buy Corsair.

No, seriously.

They switch ICs without changing the SKU.

Many companies do the same thing...OCZ & G.Skill being two of the other more notable ones.

There are brands who do not do this...i prefer them

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: n7

This is why you don't buy Corsair.

No, seriously.

They switch ICs without changing the SKU.

Many companies do the same thing...OCZ & G.Skill being two of the other more notable ones.

There are brands who do not do this...i prefer them

Do they run at stock speed though?

The Crucials were never o/c, run lower than default (already a ridiculous 2.2V!) and STILL failed.

Speaking of GSKill I've had even the cheapies run way beyond stock speed for years. I figured it was worth the gamble to try their SSDs even though I could not get the firmware because they don't have a support page. You have to sign up on a forum which I'm blocked from so I had to wait for someone else to do it for me! They did not get the OK to log on for four days. Otherwise a good product so far.

 

[n7]

How shall i say...

I'm very unbiased to the point of buying even after bad experiences in some cases, yet still i prefer certain brands for various reasons.

I'd consider Corsair & OCZ very good when it comes to support. G.Skill slightly less so.
I've bought products from all of them...& recommended them many times as well.

With regards purely to RAM overclocking though, a company that has a practice of changing ICs without changing SKUs simply doesn't rate high on my positives scale...
That doesn't mean i wouldn't buy them, as i have.
I guess i'm just saying i frown on that sorta practice.

Now if one keeps up with what they are doing for kits, etc, it's not really an issue actually.

But if not, you get situations like CurseTheSky got.

And yeah, it seems that the Crucial DDR2 kits were truely craptacular for reliability.

Oddly enough, worse than their "competitors' " kits, which i always found rather strange.

I've gone horribly off topic here, but on the note of your lovely Falcons, they seem to be fantastic drives.
Reliability down the road, well, that remains to be seen for all of us with SSDs really...

 

[capeconsultant]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
I don't believe the LEDs contributed to the high failure rates...

Perhaps good when they worked but not practical. One should never have to periodically run a memory test when their system experiences a crash to find tens of thousands of errors per minute! Over and over, set after set. Might as well run 75GXPs in RAID0 backing up to Maxtor drives on VIA usb controllers! :laugh:

Now THAT is FUNNY!

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: CurseTheSky
"DDR3 Ballistix Tracer w/ red blinky lights"

Originally posted by: Rubycon
If I want kinky lights I'll get a lavalamp!

When did blinky become kinky??

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Denithor
When did blinky become kinky??

Photosensitive epilepsy, use your imagination.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Denithor

When did blinky become kinky??

When you work these long hours there's no difference. :Q

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

zomg, im sold, im going out and buying them right now :roll:

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: Denithor

When did blinky become kinky??

When you work these long hours there's no difference. :Q

Oh, you poor thing. Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays. Hope you got over it!

 

[pjkenned]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Might as well run 75GXPs in RAID0 backing up to Maxtor drives on VIA usb controllers! :laugh:

That garnered a smile.