Problem with Ballistix?

[lupi]

Anyone else experiencing a higher than nornal failure rate of these? With my evga 680i board I had one module fail on memtest earlier this year after my comp started acting funny and that replacement set is now giving me C1 no detection errors. I can pluck some generic ddr2-667s from my other and run it fine at any settings.

On the good side they are out of PC2 8000 and sending 8500's to replace.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: lupi
Anyone else experiencing a higher than nornal failure rate of these? With my evga 680i board I had one module fail on memtest earlier this year after my comp started acting funny and that replacement set is now giving me C1 no detection errors. I can pluck some generic ddr2-667s from my other and run it fine at any settings.

On the good side they are out of PC2 8000 and sending 8500's to replace.

Nforce 650i/680i boards have poor voltage regulation. Memory that is asking for 2.1v+ dies on these boards because of voltage spikes shortening the life of them.

Xtremesystems has a huge amount of info on this.