Did your UTT die slowly?

[boostdfd3s]

hey every1,
My redline is dead... Nothing out of the ordinary anymore. She ran 260x10 at 3.4vdimm 24/7 prime stable. For about the first month i had it, i could reboot and unplug/startup at will without any problems. One day XP needed a reboot, so i did and for the first time i got the "cold boot" symptoms. Thought it was weird and just reset it and she fired up. But after that, it would take two restarts to get it to boot, then five, then seven, and then last night, i got a BSOD in XP and the ram is totally unbootable now. At first i just suspected "cold boot" problems with the board, but now im pretty sure my ram just slowly died out on me.

Has anyone else experienced a slow death with their UTT?
-Zach

[blackjok3r]

The lesson here is dont get UTT... Its crap.

[ben805]

Oskar Wu had already explained and gave his thought regarding the 'cold boot' issue on these UTT, do a search on dfi-street forum and you'll get more detail about his explaination and analogy. basically when the ram develop and starting to have these 'cold boot' symptom, it's the first sign of ram failure, if they keep operating at the same vdimm and speed.....sooner or later they will died, they'll snap quicker if you attempt to push even harder and try to squeeze the last mhz while they were running on its last garlic fried chicken legs.

My advice? if you want them to last then don't rum them 24/7 at >255, and use as little vdimm as you possibly could, eventhough Mushkin rated these Redline up to 3.5v....I still wouldn't suggest anybody to run these UTT at the maximum recommended vdimm for extended period of time, as you'd already experience it yourself, they could died even at 3.4v, my first pair went kapoof at 3.5v on day 2 during burn-in. I suppose occationally benching them at 260~270 for short period of time should be fine, but do it quick....get your score and be done with it LOL afterall...these UTT are no BH5, but with a little bit more tweaking I'm sure they'll run just fine at 250~255 with 3.2~3.3v and active cooling.

These UTT reminds me of drag racing at the 1/4mi track, just because a bone stock camaro can run well into low 12's on 250 shot of nitrous doesn't mean you want to juice the sucker while you drive it back and forth to work everyday, eventually you'll blow the head gasket, bend the pushrods, melt the pistons, or crack the engine block...something gotta give!

[Sephious]

My UTT-CH just up and died. It wasn't a slow process. I didn't even have the stuff for a month, and one stick just went *poof*.