[CentOS] OT: memory brands?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/20/2013 12:57 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> I'm looking at something called "Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3-1333
>> (PC3-10600)
>> CL9 Dual Channel". Was this the type that you had problems with, John?
>
> I had these problems with DDR2 stuff in the core2 generation of
> processors, with the 3 and 4 series chipsets (P45, H3x, etc).   I don't
> recall the specific Ballistix, but it was supposedly faster (higher
> clock rate and lower CAS timing) than the 'standard' ram for those
> chips.   It failed erratically, after a year+ of stable running at the
> standard speeds, but in two different cases (different systems, boards,
> and memory) it would  pass a 24 hour memtest even when running at
> 'overclock' rates (I test at conservative overclock speeds as well as
> normal, then run at stock speeds, presuming this gives me good margins).
>
Ok.... I've got a Core I-3, and the least expensive of the Ballistix is
rated as "certified" by Gigabyte, the manufacturer of the board I bought,
for this board. So, hopefully, this will work....

Thanks muchly for the info.