Ballistix PC8500

[stephen23]

Man, You ain't kiddin. I have had two sets of 8500 8FE"x"'s in the last two months and called tech support. They said they are sending me a new batch. We'll see when they get here. Funny thing "Brad" at Tech support told me when I asked about which D9's they were having problems with and he said that "they are not all D9's." WHAT?! I thought they were all Micron D9's i said. No they are all Micron but not D9's. Guys, what's Brad talking about? Does Micron make other model IC's?

not only the performance but also the stabilty makes me......................!
if I purchase ballistix next time, I will ask them to send me 16FDX!

[Gen]

hmm wonder how long mine will hold out at 2v lol. such crappy ic's on their high performance ram.. looking preemptively like a bad revision and worth steering clear of if you want over 2.1v (1100+) 24/7.

had my good old gmh at 2.15v 600mhz 54410 for a year before this.

[stephen23]

hmm wonder how long mine will hold out at 2v lol. such crappy ic's on their high performance ram.. looking preemptively like a bad revision and worth steering clear of if you want over 2.1v (1100+) 24/7.

had my good old gmh at 2.15v 600mhz 54410 for a year before this.

here is my good old pair!

[SWFLTrader]

I have gone thru 6 sets of this ram so far with no luck, all single sided PC8500. I am now testing sets 7 & 8 and for a couple of hours I thought I had found something that worked both sets seem to have the same bin# on all 4 sticks CL1118N.NX I left the timings on auto as that is the only way it will set the timings correctly on my board.

wouldnt run at 800mhz without memtest errors, switched to 1066 and ran fine with memtest for 4 hrs, then ran P95 small fft for 2+hrs as soon as it got to 40K test got the BSOD now have errors at 1066 in memtest. same pattern of degradation as the other 6 sets. I have tried voltages from 1.9 to 2.25 it doesnt make a difference, tried changing FSB & NB voltage, but, at some point you have to say enough is enough. I have 2 more sets arriving tomorrow which will probably be single sided and if those dont test out, then I am switching to G.Skill, Crucial has been good for a while, but these latest single sided dimms are junk and shouldnt have been released, I know DDR2 prices have dropped like a rock and the suppliers are trying to move inventory but this is rediculous

[By0T0xN]

wouldnt run at 800mhz without memtest errors, switched to 1066 and ran fine with memtest for 4 hrs, then ran P95 small fft for 2+hrs as soon as it got to 40K test got the BSOD now have errors at 1066 in memtest. same pattern of degradation as the other 6 sets. I have tried voltages from 1.9 to 2.25 it doesnt make a difference, tried changing FSB & NB voltage, but, at some point you have to say enough is enough.

That's exactly what happened to me. At what point is Crucial going to do the right thing? I hate being stuck in this rma loop of theirs. If this new set doesn't work I might just sit on them for a while till they fix this issue they are having. I'll go ahead and buy a new set of something else. Anyone got a good recomendation for a set of 8500 or 9600's

[zsamz_]

damn shame makes me wanna put my mushkins back in n save the ballistix for a rainy day

[stephen23]

That's exactly what happened to me. At what point is Crucial going to do the right thing? I hate being stuck in this rma loop of theirs. If this new set doesn't work I might just sit on them for a while till they fix this issue they are having. I'll go ahead and buy a new set of something else. Anyone got a good recomendation for a set of 8500 or 9600's

do a live chat with crucial online to obtain the RMA# by saying that the single side module is not compatible with your double side one and ask them to return a pair of double side to you specificly! then you can get out of that loop..............!

[By0T0xN]

do a live chat with crucial online to obtain the RMA# by saying that the single side module is not compatible with your double side one and ask them to return a pair of double side to you specificly! then you can get out of that loop..............!

yep, basically that's what I did when I talked to Brad on the phone at Tech Support. I told him that the last two sets which were the 8FE"x"'s both failed within 2-4 days of use @ stock settings. He said they were going to send me different batch. I hope that means back to the double sided set. Though I had one of those 16FDX sets go bad on me first which started this whole process. Maybe this new set will work. At this point I'm seriously thinking about a different brand. The G.Skill 2x2GB 8000's look good. And Cheap. Any other recommendations?

[By0T0xN]

Somewhat good news. I recieved an email from Crucial with my order number concerning the new parts they shipp 3 day UPS yesterday. I checked on the part and they are confirmed BL12864AA1065.16FD5. Those are the double sided ic's aren't they? Wonder which D9's they are? Is there a way to tell without pulling the heatsinks off? Wouldn't that void warranty? At least they aren't the 8FE"x"'s. Sorry for the questions.