How reliable is UTT?

SNM

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I'm shopping around, looking at RAM for my next machine. I like the UTT, given how cheap it is, but I'm beginning to get bad feelings:
1)A lot of the threads about overclocking @ high voltage end with several people saying their sticks crapped out after 3 months. Granted, the voltage is high, but isn't this stuff rated to 3.6 by Winbond?
2)At least one guy reports a small but persistent number of errors in Memtest at all voltage levels with TwinMOS Speed Premium.
3)Somebody, in a now-gone review at Newegg, said their OCZ "Value VX" had 1000s of errors at stock settings.

Anybody know if this is something to worry about?

Oh, and BTW, I actually still haven't decided whether I'm gonna try and push it to 250 fsb or not...Zebo doesn't show much of a real-world benefit in his tests; I expect I'll go for low-latencies though. ;)
 

Zebo

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I would just get some value ram, crucial 8T or the other crucial one NE sells. All my sticks (about 30) ran 2-3-2 1T and all would OC over 220Mhz 3-3-3. Now I know that's not great, but it works and it's cheap and it's better than corsiar and the other value sticks. (it's the same modules they front on ballistix just not speed binned)

If looking into overclcokers ram then Utt is best but there are too many problems IMO. 1) you have to have a mobo pushing 3.2+ volts, only DFI can do this 2) you have to cool them 3) unless you buy from expensive OCZ VX or expensive Mushkin redline, then thier not warrantied!!

Makes TCCD a good choice for most peoples...