Crucial Ballistix 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz

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They worked for a when. Wasted LOTS of time figuring out the sticks had been going out. Replaced TWO instances currently below warranty. Techies stated to set voltage at two., I did and here they are ruining my day once more. 3rd time isn't the charm. Providing up on Crucial.

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-Got at a wonderful cost back in Sept, ่.99 CAD and also ran extremely nicely with GIGABYTE GA-EP45C-UD3R.-Known as Important and they are sending me replacements, very very good service. Gave card quantity, they send me new ram, then I just send my faulty ram back later so I'm nonetheless up and running. -Worked really properly up till the final month now I'm acquiring "data loss or corruption, mysterious intermittent errors and the dreaded BSOD!" When I bought, I saw that other people had this issue as nicely but didn't care for this value it must have been fine. -I would get once more for ้ but not for the listed 贒 as of this time. I guess read the evaluations and the percentage of RMA stories may give you an notion of your odds of sending back the ram for a replacement or just terrible luck for me.

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Low-cost memory value-smart (got Black Friday 2008 for only ฼ for the pair, 50% off). Holds its value, still goes for at least 75% of its price tag on e Bay even following two years! Has heat sinks. BSODs if voltage left at default 1.8V on most motherboards; that is, it need to be manually set to larger ƒ.0V or higher) in BIOS which non-geeks have no clue how to do. This memory is as they say, for enthusiasts, not the typical buyer who will no doubt return it at the initial sign of problems. Obtain this memory only if you know how to adjust memory voltage. Have study other reviews saying how this memory sucks following operating memtest. I admit, at default values it does suck, but right after bumping voltage, red lines in memtest went away. Weird thing was that identical motherboard functioning at default 1.8V with windows xp pro sp3 never ever gave me any troubles, then when I upgraded tp win7, had BSODs every single other day for no cause. Bumped the voltage to two.0V, BSODs gone now. I have owned this memory for two years and following figuring out the voltage situation, it runs solid. Nonetheless, I have to agree with the rest of the crew in that you do not have to do all this with other brands of memory (eg., Kingston, G.Talent) which you can just pop in and go.

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worked great for awhile conked out a brief time immediately after obtaining a second set, can only run four of my 8 gigs.

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Lightens your wallet It doesnt hold up as other individuals have posted Have implemented it a couple of instances in the final year. Not too long ago I started obtaining memory dumps, errors, crashes and so forth. Failed memtest. Got some new memory of a numerous brand from newegg, and almost everything runs flawless, so that narrows it down to the memory causing the problem. Dont waste your money on this, look at Gskill or something numerous

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It's rapidly when it's functioning. Seems to fail significantly more sometimes than it should certainly. I'm on my second set. A single stick in the 1st set failed soon after 6 or eight months. This set has lasted longer than the initially, but last week I began seeing random errors showing up in the log file and applications would randomly crash. I believed it was some KDE base technique files that I'd made changes to, but immediately after operating memtest86 tonight I've confirmed that at least one particular stick in this second set is indeed displaying errors.All round it's great memory if you don't have an problem with sending it in for replacement each so oftentimes. I maintain a couple backup sticks of less expensive (read: reduced high quality/slower speed/lower price tag) DDR2 memory around so I can nevertheless use my method while the Ballistix sticks are in transit. But to me it's not enough of a hassle to give it a lower rating. I nevertheless like it.

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Worked right out of the box, no motherboard problems with it. 1 stick failed causing BSOD's immediately after a couple of months. Second stick is now undertaking the very same factor. For stock memory in a regular environment with no overclocking or big demand, appears like weak and cheap memory. Will be making use of a greater good quality this time. Carried out with Vital.

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NewEgg service and Vital service is incredibly good. My 1st set died following 6 months.The identical replacement set they sent me died immediately after 4 months. The usual BSOD's and odd behavior ensued.Each sets failed numerous memory diagnostics. I hope Vital replaces it with typical DDR2 800 as an alternative of the Ballistix this time.I also have a Pc with their regular DDR2 800 and it's rock solid.

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Good price, looks great. Couldn't get to run at the advertised 4-4-4-12 timings I had 2x1Gb set of this exact RAM for around two years running at the four-four-4-12 timings with zero concerns. So withstanding the bad testimonials right here, I went for these. Long story short, I had issues. No matter whether upping voltage or leaving set to auto, I could certainly not get each sticks to work with the advertised four-four-four-12 timings. (one stick would although, so I thought I had a negative stick) I stuck with my trial and error and discovered in a forum on the net someone had believed they read that five-5-5-18 was a lot more of the base settings for these and the advertised four-four-four-12 was maybe a bit significantly. So I went with 5-5-five-18 with voltage set to auto and lone behold my program booted right up. Ran a brief Mem32 test (half hour) with no troubles, and have gamed with them. Not saying mine are good to go now, but given that I upped the timings it has seemed to operate nicely...so for all of that, these get no much more than 3 stars from me

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It operates(Most of the time) Following possessing memory in use about 3 months, started out getting several BSODs, exceptions, all types of errors. Luckily, I checked memory initial, and it failed miserably. Making use of MeM Test. I put 4 x 1Gig pieces of low-cost Generic Micron memory in it, worked fine. Setup a RMA, it t was taken care of, not quickly, however not too slow. When, I got the NEW memory back, I didn't get close to to swapping it for about 6 months all with each other, I'm lazy, and the generic Micron, was working, you know the ole saying, "If it ain't broke, don't repair it!" So, NOW, the new Vital is in there, and operating, BUT, the OLD stuff, didn't break, till I pushed it to exactly where it SAYS it's supposed to run, four-4-4-12, 2.0Vdc. So NOW I left it exactly where it defaulted to, 6-6-6-18, 1.eight Vdc. And, it has been operating. BUT, IF I have to be LEERY about pushing it up to it's ADVERTISED speccs, WHAT Great IS IT? At 63 Yrs, of age I do NOT do games, It operates tracks, positions a Circularly polarized Satellite/moonbounce antenna, C below. I Want DEPENDABILITY! When, I say TRACKS, I mean, it tracks the position of the moon, and several satellites, to a degree you could not imagine, accuracy wise. OH, and position of my Antennas, multiple motors per antenna, etc. AND, it MOVES the antenna, in A lot more than 1 plane, to preserve it pointed dead center at moon, or whatever satellite I chose. IN BACKROUND As well. two x Quad Core Xeons, (socket J). NOT Negative, for an entry level sort of server, sort of workstation. An HP xw series, they contact them "Workstations". Irrelevant of the two Xeons. AND, Dual HD5870's. ALL 15,000 rpm parallel U320 SCSI drives. THIS MEMORY IS NOT WORTH THE Cost! Get inexpensive ole generic Micron/Samsung, and so forth. Never Rust, In no way Bust, By no means make a Fuss!

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Um, nicely they do what they are supposed to until the Computer gets a blue screen of death, displaying page fault errors (normally RAM or Mboard concerns with the RAM). I purchased a different Mboard thinking that was the challenge only to get a BSOD inside a week. The BSOD would be really random anywhere from during bootup, browsing the net, playing a game, at times it would go a week without a BSOD othertimes it would happen inside five minutes. I thought Ballistix was supposed to be Essential's a lot more efficiency oriented label but overall performance is irrelevant if it's not stable. Clearly Ballistix doesn't below go superior tighter High quality Manage than their worth labels.

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Amazing when it works Errors, Errors, Errors. I had this RAM working Under their specs Ƒ.8V and 5-five-5-18 timing) and a stick went poor. Tried working with the recommended specs ƒV, four-four-four-12 timing), still negative. Got it replaced, utilised advised specs, 3 months later THE REPLACED STICK GOES Negative.It's a shame that RAM costs have doubled given that I got this, but I assume I'm going to go ahead and purchase new RAM. DON'T Buy THIS. Men and women providing it good critiques are folks who haven't had it lengthy adequate for it to fail on them. I just wish I'd have gone with better RAM rather of becoming affordable when rates were so low.

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Quickly when working. Initial pair died at 1 year, so RMA'd.Second pair died 6 months right after, so RMA'd.Nonetheless waiting for my replacement third pair.Essential physically received the dead second pair 2 weeks ago, yet they are nonetheless "processing" my order. Argh! Hope third times a charm... :-(

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none memory dies speedily. Bought this ram about 1 yr ago. Worked effectively at the starting then comp began with random blue screens. Did memtest86 and discovered ram had failed. I rma'ed the 8gb ram back to cruical and got yet another eight gb that failed inside a couple months. Very frustrating experience with important. Will Under no circumstances Get Crucial RAM Once more. TERRIBLE RAM AND Numerous RMA's AND CONTINUES TO FAIL. WOULD NOT Suggest CRUICAL TO Any individual. STICK TO GSKILL OR MUSHKIN.

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Really like it, fast, looks cool, performs fine, overclocks effectively, no issues whatsoever. Ummm... I didn't get it sooner.

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Worked excellent for siz months Final 6 months, mem errors. Down clocked timings and that aid for a although but still BSOD memory problems.

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five-5-5-15 @ 1066 on stock voltage, I didn't try far more but I can garantee it will be even much better and faster with greater voltage. None Seriously, for the price tag it is the ideal memory I could get 4-four-four-12 @ 800 1.8v5-5-5-15 @ 1066 1.8vI am going to attempt pushing a small bit more on the 5-5-5-15 by escalating my FSB on my Phenom II X4 940

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Heat sink, looks great. Died immediately after six month. My Ubuntu began getting seg faults, did a memory test and identified 1 of the sticks went bad. This is the initially memory stick died on me in 16 years. NO OC, no non-normal voltage, it just failed for no purpose. (I did have the memory/system running 7ቴ for the final six months.) having heat sink does not mean it is much better.

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this is the greatest ram I have ever owned. the performance is astounding and the shipping came quick. i got two of these ƘGigs) for my desktop i not too long ago built, and my processor is holding the ram back a tiny the ram is nonetheless amazing. i will update my processor when i get the income but the ram by no means overheat have had any problems. my motherboard is an asus 770 that was recently discontinued from neweggs. non, wish it was a small less costly, but don't we all. just get it, its less costly then DDR3 and performs just as well

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I have purchased a lot of various sticks of RAM in my day, and I ought to say that this RAM has pleased me the most with it's efficiency. I have by no means had an concern with it at all, and the heatsinks operate just fine! The only situation I've had is an error with my mobo. Since the mobo can only handle 533mhz, it's been downclocking it. Which implies every now and then when I shut off the laptop or computer, i'll get a memory parity error. Other than that, they don't make my breakfast in the morning! Incredible RAM for the price tag! A definitey need to obtain for gamers with a budget

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- Good timings and price tag (a year ago)- Crucial name- Heat spreaders - Stick registered negative memory sectors just before a year was up, but up till then, knowledgeable numerous BSODs. Replaced this memory and haven't had a issue due to the fact.- RMA course of action is painfully slooooooooowwww. - I've bought Critical in the past and have been quite please. I know there's usually a possibility of getting defected memory, but it's only the 3rd or 4th time I've bought Essential and 1Ǚ or 1ǚ percent chance it's poor isn't good odds.

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Crucial will send new memory without having any hassel. Incredibly poor excellent. I purchased eight 2GB sticks. I put 8GB into two new laptop or computer builds and I am incredibly dissapointed with the poor high quality of this RAM. I built the machines for a modest company so it is essential that they be trustworthy. Like others, I started to get BSOD messages immediately after a couple of months. Downclocking the memory helped but ultimately the memory fails. I've had 2 of the eight sticks that I bought go poor. Cruicial assistance RMA'd them with no concern. I asked the help person I spoke with what percentage of this distinct item quantity has been RMA'd and she stated it's was low thinking about the quantity of products sold. Thinking of that I have skilled a 25% failure rate so far I have lost confidence in Important memory. The only way to restore it will be to see an improve in positive critiques going forward from other individuals who have purchsed their RAM.

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Excellent Cost Ran good for 6 months and BSOD every three-four days from then on. Definetely require to do a RMA.

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Worked great for 5 months till they broke Worked great for 5 months then they broke... I'm a gamer and from time to time will leave my computer system on for 4-12hours but that shouldn't be any causes for this RAM to break down. I'm beginning to read alot of other people today that bought this exact same model of RAM have the very same difficulties as I did. I got blue screen which led to the laptop or computer freezing or restarting on its own and also got verification errors while trying to install some games from cds and just other programs I generally use on my Computer. I took my computer system to a well recognized store to fix and they said that each my 2gig RAM chips had been poor. This variety of model of RAM is made for gaming also so this kind of stuff shouldn't be happening. My old laptop or computer I only had two 1gig RAM installed from a various brand and worked fine and never broke down even though I applied that computer like crazy at the time for gaming for three years straight. Hope manufacture will refund individuals their funds or atleast replace the RAM with RAM that essentially won't break down once again

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Operates as advertised for about four months, then, it DIES! I bought this 9 months ago. I JUST got my 3rd Set back. TWO sets of this garbage has died. GET THIS, IDIOTIC lady on phone, mentioned it was my fault, as I ran it as it booted, at 5-5-5-18. In other words, I by no means bothered to O'clock it to it's CAS four-4-4-12, that It Stated it was capable of. WHAT NERVE! Lady that stated it was MY fault for NOT overclocking it, stated, "IF you want, we will give you four gig of our regular DDR2 800 this time if you want, it will most likely be more stable for you". COME A single Vital, IF your going to let your flunkys on the sales line give tech assistance, MAKE Specific THEY KNOW Anything. WHEN she said it would have been much more stable overclocked, she SHOWED me one thing, Important going down the tubes! Look at the testimonials on their two x 1Gig Ballistix, 1 STAR on the average. ALL, possessing had the Exact same situation as I've had. Multiple RMA's. Lifetime warranties are Fantastic. BUT, getting to use them all the time, is NOT a Plus!