John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/20/2013 12:57 PM, m.roth@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.