Elpida Hyper Graveyard

[saaya]

My Gskill was dead on arrival but my Blade and GT kits died after 2 months 24/24 Saaya.

what vdimm?
did you stress test them a lot with memtest or play games for a long time?

if yes, then its bad news that they failed after 2 months... so that means even sticks that seem good for months can fail randomly... mhhh

I cannot remember the details of each incident but ONE stick is either half-dead (POST ok at bclock 133MHz only) or dead on Classified mobo @1.78 - 1.87Vdimm within a couple days.

2 kits of Corsair GT C7 3x2G (half dead): 1st set right after the first LN2 benching & 2nd set arrived half-dead

1 kit of OCZ Blade 3x2G (dead): Right after the first LN2 benching

2 kits of SanMax CL9 3x2G (half dead): during air testing for both kits

wow... sorry for all your losses fredyama-sensei!
damn thats a lot of sticks... and whats up with all those DOAs?
it seems that over the past year the amount of memory DOAs has skyrocketed... could it be that shops just put refurbished kits back on the shelves? makes sense, its probably a lot of hassle to test all kits or rma them to the manufacturer and wait for them to come back, plus it costs shipping and takes time... but geez, its almost like you have to buy two kits now to be 100% sure you got a working set of 3 sticks from what im hearing here...

so when benching with high vdimm it seems the sticks fail very fast and almost instantly, but even at low vdimm they degrade or fail after some time... sounds like serious chip issues at elpida...

really good thread i have a kit on elpida non-hypers die on me no idea if those count

are those the same chips and just binned diferently?
if yes, then it seems you have the same issue...
im actually a bit out of the loop about the latest chips...

Bootsy, wow, 12gb at near 2k cas7, thats sweet!
so after how much time did the stick go belly up? around 1-2 months?
did you torture it a lot with memtest or benching or gaming?

tripgood, you got 2 classifieds and a dfi and a br? daymmmm man!

saaya owns so many graveyards, you must like this business

On the topic, is there any Elpida hyper that has survived more than 2 weeks and is still running fine daily?

heheh, actually this is only the third, and well, nobody else seems to start any graveyard topics... personally i think this is the most important information we need to exchange about hardware, when and how does it die... to me thats more important than how high some parts clock... cause whats the point if it dies a week after setting a new record?

im really surprised and actually a bit worried over how this thread exploded in half a day to two pages with some people losing several sticks... i didnt know things were that bad... plus all the doa stuff... though i suspect the doa is people having a dead stick and just sending it back to newegg instead of rmaing it, and newegg puts it back on the shelf instead of rmaing it...

anyhow, i think tomorrow i will collect the lifetime of the sticks, i hope that theres a certain time that, once the sticks surivive past that, you can be pretty sure they are fine, at least most likely...

thanks for all the feedback everybody!