Keep needing to RMA memory

[w00t]

I've been getting a little annoyed by one of my memory sticks drying again. one has died before and I've had to RMA them I usually cross-ship where I pay for the memory upfront than they send me memory than when I receive it i send my memory back. which works pretty well but I am sick of it dying this is the second time. I have to pay upfront $413.17 which isn't even what I bought the stuff for but that is there MSRP which they refund back but still.

I want to know the real cause of my memory dying lately I've been thinking heat I've never overvolted it but I think it may just be running to hot and killing the memory and it's always one dying never both.

if heat is the answer I am thinking about getting a pair of Thermalright HR-07's which would void the warranty but if they stopped dying I'd be happy. the problem is with how many times the memory has died so far I don't have much trust in voiding the warranty by installing some HR-07's

I looked into some more aftermarket ram coolers seems like most of them are pair of 60mm fans blowing down on the ram sticks which I am not fond of. I try to keep a quiet PC and I can't do so with small fans at high rpms ( annoying ringing sound ).

well I've just blabbed for probably to long causing lazzy people not to read it

in the end what should I do?

 

[GenHoth]

Test it, if you think heat is killing it find out the temp that they are running at. Also consider a bad PSU or motherboard, then you can give us some more information!

 

[w00t]

How am I supposed to check memory temps and even than I don't exactly know if heat is causing the memory to die.

edit: I know from before touching the memory it was pretty hot

 

[GenHoth]

Most computer components run hot by human standards. If you have a spare computer put the memory in there to see if its truly dead. If you actually are killing multiple sticks of ram, look into a bad motherboard/PSU. Get a temperature sensor to measure the temp of your case in general or RAM in particular. It is always possible that you just had two die in a row.