Elpida Hyper Graveyard

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Lol, I'd never have thought of putting a fan over my memory if you'd not have said so!
C'mon man what do you take us for?

There might be 1 or 2 people without some form of cooling over the modules, but I'd hedge bets most are cooling the modules actively.

well hes got a point, a few people who reported dead sticks were people with few posts who might not be experienced... but while this might affect the situation, it doesnt explain the problem for sure... especially the dozen or more DOAs people reported...

1.66Volts in bios, it's 1.74Volts REAL...

raja, can you confirm this? might be a good idea for evga to rename the voltage table in bios to adjust to the offset, can you tell sham?

You would be surprised how many run their mobo/ram combo's without a extra fan... and the IOH really dumps a lot of heat if not actively cooled.

Maybe ask which dimm in which slot gave in ? The one of my Kingston kit was the one nearest the IOH. Even though there was an Antec Spotcool directed at the IOH. Ram voltage never was above 1.63 (bios setting of the Gene II), about 1.65 reality... I was just testing 1900mhz and was still working my way up to 2000mhz... RMA here we go... the Corsairs and OCZ's keep on working fab on this board so it MUST be a bad dimm... if I kill another one on in the same slot then it's the mobo...

mhhhh not necessarily... im not sure but isnt the first stick holding the lowest address space? so its getting stressed more than the other sticks, just like core0 always gets stressed more and the top vga in an sli or xfire setup gets stressed more... i doubt its a board fault... like raja pointed out, other mem works perfectly fine... you do have a good point there, heat might def play a part in that many elpida hypers going belly up, but i doubt thats the main problem.

Just got off the phone with a Kingston tech rep, and he said they are replacing the "elpida" ics with another brand. I asked what brand he said he wasn't sure but since the large failure rate that decided to change them out.

He gave me a choice to wait or get a full refund for my ram. As if i wait they are out of my kits and he wasn't sure what date the new ones would be in. So you can take it from there.

thats very interesting... please keep us up to date on how the replacement memory does!

So Kingston would likely switch to 50nm Samsung? Are there any modules with 50nm Samsung already out?

samsung? oh thats the new super mem rumors have been going around about? or is it just an upgrade of the current samsung stuff and it does about the same as elpida hyper?

Seems the middle number on the ram sticks, indicate what ic's are on the pcb's from what i gathered talking to the tech. I will call him back tomorrow and chat again. As if they are going to be some better ic's and not randomly die, i'm game then but if not i will take a refund.

might be good stuff... the previous samsung chips were the king of the hill until elpida hyper arrived, if this is really new samsung stuff it has a high chance of being at least as good as elpida hyper..

I ran my remaining 2 sticks of DOM GT's and they both failed in 1 week at reduced settings.

so its definately a problem of some chip batches! thanks, thats very good info there