"larry moe 'n curly" wrote:
> Jon Danniken wrote:
>
> > I don't know if I got a bad batch, or if it is indicative
> > of all Kingston HyperX, but I'm not planning to find out. These are
going
> > back to where they came from, and a different brand showing up in their
> > place.
>
> My batting average for Kingston ValueRAM is 8 bad PC3200 modules out of
> 11 or 12 and maybe 30% bad PC2100 modules. The number of errors seemed
> to correlate with the markings on the chips

Damn, that's some bad sticks there!

Further experimentation on mine (still the HyperX PC3200) reveals that
either single stick will run just fine at 1T command rate, but putting them
both in (dual channel) gives errors with 2T command rate (errors in Memtest
Test #8, to be precise). .

Hmmmmmmmm.

Jon