Rod Speed wrote:
>> larry moe 'n curly <larrymoencurly@my-deja.com> wrote

>> 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

>> One BIOS was in an Asrock/Asus KT400
>> mobo, the other in an ECS nForce3 mobo.

> I just dont believe that Kingston is shipping ram with anything
> like that percentage BAD at the top. Bad in the sense that you
> get that percentage in every system.

Not in every system. I counted a module as bad if it failed in at
least one of those systems when it was run at its SPD settings.

> That is just plain silly, it must have a problem with just some chipsets, like I said.

Then why didn't any of my Corsair or PNY modules fail in any of the
systems, even when overclocked, and why did the Kingstons with the
Fxxxxxx chips work much better than other Kingstons with the same SPD
information?