ram DEATH thread for UTT/TCCX

[13oost]

im tired of seeing thread after thread after thread every day about UTT dieing and even some of them about them ressurecting...

just want to start a list of what ram "died" on what board, with what company, module, chip, voltages, frequency, and cooling.

also post if they ressurect and the conditions, time peroid, etc that they came back to life

its lookling like most of the deaths is UTT-CH, but i just want a list compiled to represent the deaths...

just post up a post and ill try to keep the thread updated.

im also putting up a poll for these

PLEASE do not post ram that you know you killed or that you are sure it was your fault for killing like excessive voltage (IE:3.8/9ish and up)

what im looking for is random sudden deaths with out any clue why it truely died


RAM DEATH

UTT-CH
4--TwinMOS SpeedPremium 3200
2-died at 3.2v and eventually recovers, max voltage limited to 3.2vdimm or refuse to boot
2*-had a sudden death


2--OCZ Value Series "VX" suddenly died at 3.3vdimm

1--OCZ VX3200 died at 3.6vdimm - resurected after bios flash

1--Mushkin Redline XP4000 died at 3.4vdimm

fareastgq had UTT-CH to die at 4v... hmm wonder why even BH-5 is specked to only 3.6v and CH is on a smaller process... not counting these becasuse of excessive voltage

please post all info possible, especially cooling.... and possible when they died (like in windows, during benching, during memtest, gaming, etc...)

[13oost]

could you please post specifics?

[uwackme]

My two sticks of Twinmos SP3200 UTT-CH are "dead" in that they cant handle more than 3.2Vdimm or....beeeeep. Though tey do wake up and @ 3.2Vdimm they run flawlessly for weeks warm/cold boot etc all spiffy. They even run 240Mhz full blast in the NF4 board @ 3.2V though they are hanging out in a NF2 board lately.

[13oost]

thx, if it is memory related cause of death, compiling information is the best way to try and sort something out...

[Sephious]

I had a pair of UTT-CH OCZ Value VX die on me for no reason. One of the sticks just stopped working. I ran them at 3.3v.

[SET]

1 Stick Twinmos TMSP (UTT-Ch5) Died for me.

[fareastgq]

I voted ch-5 UTT , but I have to clarify that I pumped 4 volts into it, heh.

[HiJon89]

I voted ch-5 UTT , but I have to clarify that I pumped 4 volts into it, heh.

"PLEASE do not post ram that you know you killed or that you are sure it was your fault for killing like excessive voltage (IE:3.8/9ish and up)"

[jiff]

VX3200 one stick died on DFI 3 with 3.6 volts
Mushkin Redline XP4000 one stick died on DFI 4 with 3.4 volts
cooled with stacker xflow full blast and 90mm fan ontop of Ram, cool to touch even under full load.

[chinkgai]

dont forget to post how u cooled your ram guys, as i bet its a significant factor

[13oost]

major factor ^.^ gona start the list in a sec

list started and updated


please read and post properly and provide as much information as possible

especially cooling, circumstance, and possibly motherboard (doubt its really motherboard related though)

[13oost]

heh, yea its 6am and still not in bed... this thought just come to me

seeing as ALOT of the CH-5 that is dieing as well as other sticks is in the DFI NF4 boards... there is alot of theories and such...

alot of deaths occur on the 5v jumper or the jumper "trick"

im currently having problems with my "stand-in" psu while i do the vsense mod to my new Sparkle (Fortorn) 460w psu so i can get 3.3-3.5vdimm on my NF3 board

i was testing with my DMM on the dimm slots and saw that the actual voltage was .07v higher than what bios was reporting... i know that monitering sofware, even the bios is off by some margin

could using the 4v (5v feed) or the jumper "trick" make this margin of error in the bios enough to make the board feed the ram an excess of voltage and effectivly fry the sticks thats truely dead, im not refering to the "dead" from cold boot sticks, but the ones thats literally frying w/ just 3.4-3.6vdimm and under active cooling...

just a thought.... may be half baked, but its an idea and i havent heard some one aproach it this way, and ive only see 1 person actually post where they took a DMM and monitered the actual voltage (he was showing warm boot, cold boot, idle, load, etc voltages of the DFI NF4 boards to show the "cold boot" theory he had came up with.

[wtz54321]

Please take a look at my thread about the ram death problem ... I am 99.9% sure that the main problem is UTT , not what kind of UTT ...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d=1#post919112

[vapb400]

1 stick of SP UTT CH-5 died on me, my BH-5 SP has been chugging along.

[13oost]

vapb, what circumstances? refer to post 1 to what im looking for

@wtz i havent seen many UTT-BH die.... imho its mainly b/c of its larger process which allows it to tolerate way more abuse than the UTT-CH, but that is just my opinion

[jiff]

Well the stick that I swear was dead as a dead thing could be, has come back from the dead with a bios flash. I have flashed to 618.2 bam it works just as before same voltage same clock.
Looks like I may of been wrong blaming UTT chips

[wtz54321]

Well the stick that I swear was dead as a dead thing could be, has come back from the dead with a bios flash. I have flashed to 618.2 bam it works just as before same voltage same clock.
Looks like I may of been wrong blaming UTT chips

The new bios will program the DDR voltage as the article said ... But that means your DRAM will need to boot at high voltage in 200mhz setting(from what the article said , the board will only boot at 200mhz fsb after ac off) ... This is not a good sympton if your dram is working good when you just got it , but fail to work after a certain time period ...

[wtz54321]

There are 9 UTT-BH dead case now ... I really don't think what kind of UTT is the root cause of the problem ... The problem is that no matter what kind of UTT chip the module used , the first 1000 hours of failure rate is fairly high ... Overclocking and Overvoltage only accelerate the time of it's failure ...

[13oost]

yea, true... i have a crap memory controler on my Newcastle so anything over 2.9vdimm on my OCZ Value Series (Winbond) BH-5 will make it keel over and dump errors all over the place... so i keep active cooling on it and stuff, so no real worries of my memory dieing yet.... have u noticed that the OCZ Value Series (winbond) isnt on OCZ's site any more

[[cTx]Philosophy]

I had a 512 of 1a4t speed premium bh-5 die on me in my nf3 250ut
and one aa4t ch-5 die on me in my infinity both at 3.3
ch was 245 3.3 2-2-2-11 on hellfire 3eg rev 3 bios
bh was 254 3.3 1.5-2-2-5 on 5-04 tic moded 4.0vdim
Read the resurection post but it didnt work for either of my dimms
I rmad a gig of bh-5 and am waiting on ocz gold to return
as for the ch-5 I still have it and it wont even run at 200/180 multi in bios 2.5-3-3-8
Gonna try to send ch back to twinmos themselves since the egg sends out only bh-5 anymore and that isnt comp. with infinity nf2

[Ugly n Grey]

Where's the "none" button ?

[Korpse]

mutliple sticks of Twinmos UTT (Regualr,Speed Premium,44D,50D,Mtec) cooled with a 80mm fan voltages varying for 3.2-3.6v

fricking hate twinmos UTT when it dies, fricking love it when it does 264mhz 2x512mb 1.5-2-2-5

[[cTx]Philosophy]

I agree when its workin it flies but then when its done it dies