Rod Speed wrote:

> It would only be bad ram if you got that 8 out of 11 or 12 result
> in all systems that specify that particular ram is what it can
> handle and I dont believe Kingston ships ram like that.

I thought the standard of quality should be that the memory works
perfectly in all computers for which it's specifed, not just in one of
them.

> It isnt bad ram unless its not possible to find any timing specs which give
> an error free result with say memtest86 and the Prime95 ramfucker test.

I had some PC2100 modules that always failed testing at their rated 266
MHz bus speed, regardless of how slow the other timings were, but they
worked fine at 200 MHz. So by your reasoning, those modules weren't
bad?