What chipset killed your DDR2 Ballistix?

[ether.real]

So, I have another dead kit of Ballistix. Talking to the Crucial reps, they said that they have narrowed it down to P35 chipsets that are killing the RAM. So, lets see if the enthusiast community agrees. If you have had Ballistix die on you, please vote.

I would also like to add....not only has my board killed 3 sets, both of my brothers' boards have killed memory, and both of them were P35 as well.

[road-runner]

X38 with my 8500s...

[cadaveca]

3 sets dead on 975x, 2 on p35, 1 on X38. 1 on RD600 too, but i think each was damaged by 975x DIMM3.

[aicjofs]

975x did 2 sets in for me

[gymenii]

My now defunct gigabyte p35-ds3r killed 3 sets crucial pc6400 (2 dbl sided, 1 sgl sided) + 1 set older g.skill pc6400. No love lost here.

[Deux]

580X killed a pair of 512 mb tracers for me. 1.8v for their entire life too.

[WrigleyVillain]

I haven't lost mine (yet?). I don't like this thread. :p:

[[XC] Hicks121]

965 for me crunchn em 24/7. 2 sets of crucial & 1 set of G skill.

[Omastar]

Lost one set thanks to 975X, haven't lost any with P35.

[johnysb]

650i

[ZOMGVTEK]

Thats a nasty chipset there if its killing all this mem, that should not happen.

If you run 2.4+V into the chips, i would assume it would fail sooner or later... but on lower volts, what the...?

[zsamz_]

My now defunct gigabyte p35-ds3r killed 3 sets crucial pc6400 (2 dbl sided, 1 sgl sided) + 1 set older g.skill pc6400. No love lost here.

lol my p35c-ds3r killed 3 sets of mushkin xp2 pc2-8500 2.24v max
6 months now on dfi x-38 same psu no dead d9:)
can you guess if i hate gigabut

[yankee]

There's a lot more than a chipset that can kill memory. To believe otherwise is foolish.

We'll see in the long run, but I bench my babies @ 2.3v or more, and for 24/7 they are quite happy @ stock speed 2.0v. All on P35. :D

I just cant wrap my head around the concept of one component 'killing' another. I'm imagining something like this > :lsfight:

One would think that such incompatibility would be widespread and well publicized.

[Omastar]

There's a lot more than a chipset that can kill memory. To believe otherwise is foolish.

We'll see in the long run, but I bench my babies @ 2.3v or more, and for 24/7 they are quite happy @ stock speed 2.0v. All on P35. :D

I just cant wrap my head around the concept of one component 'killing' another. I'm imagining something like this > :lsfight:

One would think that such incompatibility would be widespread and well publicized.

I always figured it was specific motherboards that killed memory, not the chipsets themselves, by way of automatic vDDR overvolting (see most Asus boards).

[ether.real]

One would think that such incompatibility would be widespread and well publicized.


Having spent some time working in QA for a large semiconductor company, I can tell you that is not true. I have seen some cases where a certain defect may only manifest itself .01% of the time but be enough to cause a stop-ship.

[yankee]

Having spent some time working in QA for a large semiconductor company, I can tell you that is not true. I have seen some cases where a certain defect may only manifest itself .01% of the time but be enough to cause a stop-ship.

Good point, there is a threshold for these things.

But then again, there were not a small number of these kits that were sold. Of the unique posters in the ballistix 8500 thread, how many failed kits would you say there are, as a percentage? Of those failed kits, how many had run 2.4+ volts through them?

I guess my point here is that hardware doesn't kill hardware, people kill hardware.

Not that I have anything against that :D

[ether.real]

Good point, there is a threshold for these things.

But then again, there were not a small number of these kits that were sold. Of the unique posters in the ballistix 8500 thread, how many failed kits would you say there are, as a percentage? Of those failed kits, how many had run 2.4+ volts through them?

I guess my point here is that hardware doesn't kill hardware, people kill hardware.

Not that I have anything against that :D

None of my kits have ever exceeded the rated 2.2V. I know I am not the only one.

[STEvil]

Chipsets dont kill ram.

VREG's kill ram.

and bad ram kills ram too.

[zsamz_]

Chipsets dont kill ram.

VREG's kill ram.

and bad ram kills ram too.

totaly agree with you

[Schmetterling]

Not crucial sticks which got killed here, but two sets of Team Group memory (D9GMH chips) both running at stock speeds and undervolted. They ran on my old P5K Deluxe board. (P35 chipset)

[Pntgrd]

2 sets of 8500 Tracers here, did in by a P35 chipset ;).

[Eldonko]

2 kits on p35, 1 on 965

[Cupcake]

Actually I have owned three pairs of ballistix each got at least 30 hours of 2.55v for benching and none of them died

I used 965. P35, X38,680i and 780i

[71 (Bryan)]

I haven't lost mine (yet?). I don't like this thread. :p:

ur not alone

[stangracin2]

2 weeks of 2.2V on my 6400 kit and BSOD's and after countless reformats i finally decided it was time to test the memory and it was the ballistix

on my M2N-SLI deluxe

my patriot is still running strong at 1200 MHZ

[chispy]

My last dead Gigabyte P35-DS3R killed 1 set of ballistics 8500 , 1 set of Team eXtreme DDR2-1200 D9GKX and one set of Mushkin 8500 also D9GMH , then my dead Asus P35K Deluxe wi-fi ap killed a set of G.Skill HZ 6400. Bad luck or bad chipset???

Im glad they all got RMA :)

[RealTelstar]

othr + p965.

out of the blue after one year at stock speed, stock voltage.

[Zucker2k]

You do realize that there are too many variables at play here to pin anything on a chipset right? Oh let's see:

* bad/shoddy sticks
* psu (volt spikes
* shoddy vrs on mobo
* running tight TRDs for prolonged period
* over-voltage
* overclocking
* etc./add your own here

[Kobalt]

This poll is pointless. P35 motherboards are the most popular since they are the best value (IMO), so obviously the majority of people who have had ballistix die will have P35 chipsets. It's not going to prove anything.

[stangracin2]

this thead should really be did your ballistix P/N 97432 or 97532 die

[Krohling]

I had one stick of OCZ Platinum DDR2-1066 to go bad, lots of memtest errors.
But the problem was not motherboard or vdimm.
It simply had to go bad. That happens...
The chipset does not necessarily kills RAM.

Don't see this thread so useful as it can mislead users to wrong conclusions.

[MikeB12]

2 sticks #97432 died on a GA-P35-DS3L after 4 weeks... no oc.. running 750mhz@ 1.8-1.9v/auto timings.. fah pc.

they sent me 2 sticks of 97532 as replacements, just came in this week.

to tell you the truth, I already replaced them with gskill's, and will never buy crucial ram again...
caused me a week of headaches in April... file io errors in smp client... and 3 os installs before I finally gave up and replaced the ram...
I'm done with crucial, bad taste after that episode, then they just send me 97532's as replacements.. screw'em, they're dead to me...

[zsamz_]

bad memory voltage regulators on intel boards kill ram in my opinion not chipset
i lost 3 sets of mushkin xp2-8500 on gigabyte board 2.24v and 1 set of ocz platinum 6400 promos chips
7 months now on dfi not 1 dead or degraded stick was doin 1200+ 24/7 for 6 months