Paunter Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Bought theese 1 year and half ago and ran them always @400mhz, even when the rated speed is 500.... This was on a P4 system with Abit i875 mobo. Now I'm upgrading to winchester A64 and was thinking of selling theese modules and going to a TCCD model by corsair, I have a friend wich is running @250 FSB on Asus P4c and get's reboots and freezes in windows and errors in memtest, at anything above 230FSB... well then I thought maybe on a64 the memory might run and choosed then to keep them, to my horror i found they do not go (neither in single, nor double channel configuration) @ anything more than 224 / 230 mhz memtest stable, all of the tests (AMD & Intel) where performed @ rated by spd timings and even manual more relaxed ones. The big problem is (as my poor english already hinted you) I'm not from the USA, the mems where bought @ newegg (I believe, I must check with my friend, who bough em), I was wondering since I just found this forum if there is any chance corsair would receive the memories and perform the test @ 500mhz rated speed, wich I'm confident will fail (confident as in not wanting to have BIG shipping charges for nothing, not doubting about your product qlty, as I'also own a pair of BH5 modules wich run great @ rated speed @ even more :) ) and maybe offer me the option to pay a difference to get some TCCD or at least equivalent rated speed - able memory? please escuse my english and I hope it was good enough to make my ponit, and not been taken as a rant, but only a question in the quest of solving my problem the most efficient way possible (the other option i have right now is to sell the modules @ generic stuff prices here and buy a TCCD module, but believe me prices here of your (and any qlty brand) memory are really sky high.) thanks in advance José de la Torre. ps: on the AMD platform I'm currently running generic bh6 wich is handling stable 245mhz at titgh timings, so i'm sure it's not the cpu mem controller's fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 16, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 16, 2005 I would try your reseller first and see if they will help you get them replaced. However, what you are getting with AMD 64 may be about right depending on the specific MB and CPU. Can a friend help you test the modules in another system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paunter Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 resseller wty is 1yr only here ni Argentina, plus as I mentioned it's a "buy on request" kind of item for them (and 90% sure they bought it from newegg and handled the importing - shipping - etc to argentina), so their responsability over the ram is finished, i was posting here cause I know corsair gives the final user a lifetime warranty, thing is while i used this on the abit ic7 I never ran them @ nothing more than 400mhz, now can't do that in my dfi (wich is undesrstandable, as this was not the platform of choice when theese modules where your top of the line product, but problem is their unability to run @ rated speed on asus p4c (i 875, wich i guess is where you manually tested them to rate them as pc4000) is what is stopping me from selling them to a friend, that is selling @ reasonable prices for what they costed me, if you can't help, I understand but will find my self in a positionwhere I'll be hardpressed to choose your brand again over others similar qlty ones... Just hope not to sound rough as that's not my intention, but I thought maybe corsair would offer me as a customer a better choice than going to the reseller... Even if you offered me the exchange of the modules maybe shipping / handling expenses would not have justified the trouble, but I'd like to have the oppportunitie to analse / check that by myself :( just read that you asked if friend could test them in another system, will try on a p4p800 of another friend, but rest assured all other componnents (mobo, cpu, vid card, power supply, etc) are known to run 100% stable at the fsb of 500mhz, just with a divider, also using only 1 stick at the time did not help stability and I have confidence in my knowledge to asure you that theese particular sticks of ram is not able to perform as advertised by it's rating. thanks ps: as I said before, i believe my remaining choice is to resell theese @ generic 3200 prices and move along to tccd, at my expenses, I really understand that it's difficult for corsair to cover their warranty out of your country, as it's also impossible for me to reclaim it stronger cause of the costs / etc, so please don't take my thanks as an irony.... (and as always keep in mind that if something sound to rough, it's just my english grammar skills to blame, not my mood ;): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 16, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 16, 2005 First thing, I am not the one to talk to about over seas issues, and all of our off shore resellers should handle their own service. In fact in many cases we have made arrangements with them to take care of their customers because of customs issues. So as I said please try them first, that would be the least expensive choice for you. If they will not help you, and you do indeed have a bad module; which by the way we have not established as of yet. Then you are welcome to submit the RMA directly. However some countries customs will charge you no matter what we do. And we have no control over that nor would we be able to reimburse you sorry! I would ask if you can list your complete system spec and the bios settings you have set for both CPU and memory to try and trouble shoot the problem, and please let me know what the problem is other than it does not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paunter Posted March 19, 2005 Author Share Posted March 19, 2005 System specs: AMD DFI Ultra d Winnie a64 3000 Thermalright xp120 Topower520w p.supply problem is other than it does not work : Random resets before windows @ anything above 230mhz - Memtest memory errors at test #1 same mobo - cpu - psupply with generic BH6 is prime / memtest / gamestable for 24hs @ 250mhz mem speed Intel Rig 1 P4e 2,8ghz Asus p4c800 Deluxe Topower 420 p suply problem is other than it does not work : Random resets before windows @ mem speeds above 235 - prime errors in blend test... Same mobo - cpu - p suplply with corsair 3200ll (bh5) is ok @ 240mhz Intel Rig 2 P4c 3,2ghz Abit IC7 Topower 420 p suply problem is other than it does not work : Random resets before windows @ mem speeds above 235 - prime errors in blend test... Same mobo - cpu - p suplply with corsair 3200ll (bh5) is ok @ 240mhz and this is the system wich they ran problem free 1 yr but @ just 200 (400ddr) memspeed. just performed theese tests and filled this msg to response your request, but as you said with out the reseller help (they are not and I think you don't have any "authorized" reseller in my countre) it will be best for me to sell them @ generic prices and buy some tccd for my new system, wich (not biassed on this incident, wich I harldy blame you, nor corsair... but based on performance reports on forums such as xtremesystem will be G.Skill. Thanks for your help. José First thing, I am not the one to talk to about over seas issues, and all of our off shore resellers should handle their own service. In fact in many cases we have made arrangements with them to take care of their customers because of customs issues. So as I said please try them first, that would be the least expensive choice for you. If they will not help you, and you do indeed have a bad module; which by the way we have not established as of yet. Then you are welcome to submit the RMA directly. However some countries customs will charge you no matter what we do. And we have no control over that nor would we be able to reimburse you sorry! I would ask if you can list your complete system spec and the bios settings you have set for both CPU and memory to try and trouble shoot the problem, and please let me know what the problem is other than it does not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 21, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 21, 2005 same mobo - cpu - psupply with generic BH6 is prime / memtest / gamestable for 24hs @ 250mhz mem speed What was the modules speed and or part# and what were the exact settings you had set in your bios for both CPU and memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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