No Display - Part 2

GMAN wrote:
In article B7BCj.75739$yE1.9270@attbi_s21, "Travis King" wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ...
Travis King wrote:

Went out today and bought some dual-channel RAM at a store rated at 1.8V.
Put it in, and it worked! It's actually lower end RAM than the G-Skill,
but at this point, I wanted it to just work. It's 667MHz instead of
800MHz.
Of course it worked.
That is what standards are all about. :-)))
Sometimes... Maybe...
Um, OK, I admit it, its a crapshoot...

Paul


lol I am going to return the G-Skill to newegg and just use this cheap RAM
and be done with it. I guess there are times that cheaper isn't better.
(That doesn't happen too often though.)


But why run the MB at the speed its not meant to be run at.

Granny isn't going to notice that her RAM--CPU bus is running at 166Mhz
instead of 200Mhz unless she runs Cpu-Z and then runs Sandra to validate
her findings.

"Travis King" wrote in message
news:B7BCj.75739$yE1.9270@attbi_s21...
| "Paul" wrote in message
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| Travis King wrote:
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|
| Went out today and bought some dual-channel RAM at a store rated
at 1.8V.
| Put it in, and it worked! It's actually lower end RAM than the
G-Skill,
| but at this point, I wanted it to just work. It's 667MHz instead
of
| 800MHz.
|
| Of course it worked.
| That is what standards are all about. :-)))
| Sometimes... Maybe...
| Um, OK, I admit it, its a crapshoot...
|
| Paul
|
|
|
| lol I am going to return the G-Skill to newegg and just use this
cheap RAM
| and be done with it. I guess there are times that cheaper isn't
better.
| (That doesn't happen too often though.)
|
|

Even reputable brand ram can be bad or fail after extended use. I
recently RMA'd (under warranty, failed after about 2 years of use,
lifetime guarantees are great) a stick to a reputable vendor, and the
replacement stick failed memtest86. Had to RMA the replacement stick,
finally got a "good stick" of ram on the second go around. This is
why running memtest86 on new ram is always a worthwhile step when
building/upgrading a system.
--
Best regards,
Kyle