My system restarts no warning

[PCBONEZ]

Re: My system restarts no warning

Corsair used to be the best stuff you could get.
I agree they've lost that title. - I think about DDR2.
If you stay away from their high-end product lines usually it at least usually works.
Their high-end lines only work sometimes. Very picky. Hit-miss.
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Kingston Value-Ram has worked in everything I've tried it in - even servers.
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[Mostly for server RAM]
If buying used: Samsung that is branded 'for HP' has worked in everything I've tried it in and sometimes it's really inexpensive because the 'for HP' scares a lot of buyers off.
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I've seen a lot of gripes about Samsung for regular PC's but I've never ever had a problem with Samsung RAM myself so I dunno where those complaints are coming from.
Maybe they are all using bitchy Asus boards... LOL.
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[c_hegge]

Re: My system restarts no warning

^
And DDR3 is worse again. not even the lower end stuff works. We always get BSODs in new systems when we use corsair. Kingston works fine.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: My system restarts no warning

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And DDR3 is worse again. not even the lower end stuff works. We always get BSODs in new systems when we use corsair. Kingston works fine.

That's what I meant. - From DDR2 on.

Not sure about Corsair DDR [meaning DDR1].
I haven't seen enough of that to say.

Corsair PC133 was kick-ass though.
Back then Kingston was the iffy one.
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[severach]

Re: My system restarts no warning

I prefer RAM without heat sinks. Heat sinks tell me they are overclocking to push chips to the next speed level and overclocking RAM is excessively uncool. I'll wait 6 months until the chips have improved to where they don't need cooling any more.

I'd buy if they'd heat sink RAM chips that already run cool but that never happens.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: My system restarts no warning

I think the heat-sinks on RAM are just bells and whistles myself.
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They add a few cents worth of sheet metal and raise the price $5 or $10.
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[IIRC]
DDR is like 14 watts/stick and heatsinks were rare.
DDR2 is like 7 watts/stick and heatsinks are common.
- Yet the surface area is the same....
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Just don't make sense, does it...
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[PCBONEZ]

Re: My system restarts no warning

I had some RAM with those thick finned aluminum heatsinks and those actually made matters worse.
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As installed there was almost no clearance between the heatsinks so all those things did was block the air flow between the modules.
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[shovenose]

Re: My system restarts no warning

Corsair XMS DDR sucked. It had cool LEDs but I have never seen a working module of it...

[joshnz]

Re: My system restarts no warning

KVR1333D3N9K2/8G
Will this be ok is only 61.50 for 8 gigs

[PCBONEZ]

Re: My system restarts no warning

Dunno what your board takes but this is what that RAM is.
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KVR = Kingston Value RAM
1333 = 1333 MHz
D3 = DDR3
N = Unbuffered
9 = CL9
K2 = Kit w/2 Modules
8G = 8G for the Kit
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[joshnz]

Re: My system restarts no warning

I know this.
It is compatible with my pc (speed and voltage) and unbuffered.
No Kingston is on the QVL for 1333 .
I have attached the QVL PDF.

[Uranium-235]

Re: My system restarts no warning

I've had 3 corsair ddr sticks

2x512 XMS with silver-colored jackets. put in A8N-E. works beautifully still
1x512 /w the cool leds. still works fine.

I actually have two sticks of similar to these (except 2x1gb)

http://ncix.ca/products/?sku=24035

with the fan included. Got them for free, don't ask! Still don't know if they work. Like 4-3-4 shit. I should pop out the old P5N and test them sometime, maybe sell them here if they do. but they're so cool I'm almost afraid to

[c_hegge]

Re: My system restarts no warning

I know this.
It is compatible with my pc (speed and voltage) and unbuffered.
No Kingston is on the QVL for 1333 .
I have attached the QVL PDF.

Forget those RAM compatibility lists. All DDR3 RAM will work with all DDR3 motherboards (well, 99.99% of the time it does).

[joshnz]

Re: My system restarts no warning

Forget those RAM compatibility lists.

Same thing i was thinking.

on a side note the issue is just not in windows i'm on linux right now and has reset twice.

So It will be ok to go Kingston value ram?

[Mad_Professor]

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IMO Corsair RAM is unreliable crap.

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+1

Corsair used to be the best stuff you could get.
I agree they've lost that title. - I think about DDR2.
If you stay away from their high-end product lines usually it at least usually works.
Their high-end lines only work sometimes. Very picky. Hit-miss.
.
Kingston Value-Ram has worked in everything I've tried it in - even servers.
.
[Mostly for server RAM]
If buying used: Samsung that is branded 'for HP' has worked in everything I've tried it in and sometimes it's really inexpensive because the 'for HP' scares a lot of buyers off.
.
I've seen a lot of gripes about Samsung for regular PC's but I've never ever had a problem with Samsung RAM myself so I dunno where those complaints are coming from.
Maybe they are all using bitchy Asus boards... LOL.
.

^
And DDR3 is worse again. not even the lower end stuff works. We always get BSODs in new systems when we use corsair. Kingston works fine.

That is so weird, that corsair got negative rep from here. I've bought corsair for every rig I've built including clients which is alot. Value, XMS, XMS2, XMS3, you name it I've used it. I've only had to RMA twice in my life.

Corsair XMS DDR sucked. It had cool LEDs but I have never seen a working module of it...

I even had those too. 2GB of PC3200 with LED's they were awesome then 5 years down the line one stick died. Called up corsair but they didn't manufacture them anymore, so I had to take some regular XMS in exchange.

But about 2 years ago I bought another 2GB DDR2-800 with LEDS and they are still working. But I had to RMA the first batch I got. They worked for 20 minutes after I installed them then the LEDs on one stick died and even the stick no longer registered. Not surprised because I called up newegg and bitch them out for sending these sticks in a simple envelope that had a foot print on it. Considering I work for UPS, I know it was a loose small in a feeder and it fell on the floor when someone was loading or unloading and step on it.

I've had 3 corsair ddr sticks

2x512 XMS with silver-colored jackets. put in A8N-E. works beautifully still
1x512 /w the cool leds. still works fine.

I actually have two sticks of similar to these (except 2x1gb)

http://ncix.ca/products/?sku=24035

with the fan included. Got them for free, don't ask! Still don't know if they work. Like 4-3-4 shit. I should pop out the old P5N and test them sometime, maybe sell them here if they do. but they're so cool I'm almost afraid to

Glad to see it working for someone.

Forget those RAM compatibility lists. All DDR3 RAM will work with all DDR3 motherboards (well, 99.99% of the time it does).

That's why you go to the memory manufacturer and use their memory finder/compatibility finder tool then when it doesn't work just call and bitch them out. LOL!

I still find it weird that I've had use these sticks exclusively and had good experiences with them.

[joshnz]

Re: My system restarts no warning

So green light for Kingston value ram?

[joshnz]

Re: My system restarts no warning

I'm using the Kingston ram I mentioned above 3 hours OK for now will run some tests later and see if any problems.

[shovenose]

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@mad_professor: I always buy cheap ram and have NEVER had a stick fail on me, and never had to rma any of it

[severach]

Re: My system restarts no warning

Some RAM passes all tests yet still crashes the machine. I recently diagnosed a DDR3 Dell that had to sit idle 2-3 days to crash. That means I get one test per weekend and it took a week or so to determine the test methodology. It took 4 weeks to swap back and forth between 2 modules but I got it.

I can't always run tests exhaustively so I prefer RAM that has a no hassle no receipt warranty. Most of the time that's Kingston.

DDR3 seems to have made worse the problem where two perfectly good sticks refuse to work together.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: My system restarts no warning

DDR3 seems to have made worse the problem where two perfectly good sticks refuse to work together.

When two sticks work fine individually but won't work together it's usually a RAM voltage regulation problem on the mobo.
Sometimes that's bad caps. Sometimes it's bad VR design.
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Some of the socket 478 boards had a bad VR design such that if you went to 4 sticks the RAM started screwing up.
It turned out Intel made a mistake when they published the design requirements for the RAM VR.
Anyone that built boards to the minimum required by the spec ended up with a dodgy board that wouldn't work reliably with 4 sticks.
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[joshnz]

Re: My system restarts no warning

Update,
System still stable.