Quote Originally Posted by Tulatin
Hmm. personal thought is seeing the recent increase in death of these modules as a combination of things.

As you've all said, the quick death rate is a combination of PCB, Chip and memory design, coupled with inexeienced users pushing hardware past their abilities. Of course UnTesTed modules are going to burn out at 3.6V when they're being pushed to a full load all the time with zippo airflow over them. While it may be true that on some boards (DFI at the moment seems to be encountering this issue) the spikes may be the reason for the season, i'm starting to think it's more module issues and user issues. After all - just how many have burned out BH5/CH5 or TCCD? I'm pretty sure the people here who actually have that stuff, that clocks damn high protect it like family, children and attached organs. Airflow over said modules and their voltage regulators is a must. Perhaps there should be a little sticker on all UTT memory: ACTIVE COOLING REQUIRED WHEN OVERCLOCKING!

Just my two cents though...
That's what I thought about the whole disaster ... It's not possible that the
board is the only reason that kill the memory when there is other board and
DDR booster kill the memory as well ... I did not say that all the death is not
related to the motherboard , but from the reported case ... We can see
clearly that these UTT chip made module is much more easy to be burned
compare to the old BH chip ... If the root cause is that those chip that may
fail quickly did not found by chip company , that explain what we see now
perfectly because those BH5 chip that may fail quickly has already been
sorting out before they put onto the module ... So the old BH5 module that
we could buy will mostly base on the low failure rate chip ... That's in the
3.5V will not kill the memory situation ... If the new UTT chip is not able to
handle 3.5V in it's design or fabrication process , we know what will appened
in the next ...