Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 12, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 12, 2007 Please let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulous Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Oh well. At 2T the rig runs pretty sugglish. I decided not to continue trying to put a band-aid on the problem. I dropped the ram speed down to DDR400 @ 3-4-4-8. I asked my brother for a loan to purchase some "other name brand" ram. Once that arrives I will switch out the ram and just toss the corsair out. I just don't have the time nor the energy to keep wasting on this. It's cost me too much already. Not only money wise, but I already knew I failed my courses. Now i have to pay out of my pocket to retake the courses and my financial aid will not cover it. I'm really disgusted and disappointed , not to mention just plain angry of what this ordeal has put me through. I think i would've handled it better if someone would've broken into my house and just stole my whole computer. This way i could've filed a police report, put in an insurance claim and would've gotton a new pc. All I had to show my professors is the police report, the insurance report and i would've at least had a state of execution before my papers would've been due. As far as Corsair products are concerned, I really doubt I will ever purchase anything with the corsair label and rest assured I will not recommend it to any of my friends, co-workers or colleagues. I will add this to the ongoing list of other companies of which their products was unsatisfactory to say the least. Thank you and good bye...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 13, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 13, 2007 Well as you wish! But If you like or have time you are welcome to call me at 800-205-7657 and ask for Ram Guy I will be happy to help you get this resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulous Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 ok, against my judgement, a friend of mine with the same motherboard offered to test this ram out in his pc. His specs are: A64 FX-55 San-Diego Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Team Xtreem 2x1GB DDR500 eVGA Geforce 7800GTx2 SLI Seagate Barracuda 320GB GameXtream 700W We swapped out memory and ran it at stock timings, voltages, etc. We got the same reults; hard locks, bsod's and random crashes. games would crash to desktop and browser errors. Setting the command rate to 2T would result in noticeable lag Dropping the ram mem clock to DDR333, we were able to reach the rated speed of 250 (DDR500), but with 2.8v. Evry now and then we would get the same results. Raising NB, SB and HT voltages made no difference. However I did notice that the Skew Delay would drop to 300ps. Setting the AI Skew delay to normal would result in boot up failure. I did not raise the ram voltage any higher than 2.8 as I thought it may void the warranty. I cannot be 100% certain that these board undervolt the ram as setting the ram to 2.75v resulted in boot up failure as well. Well, i'm fresh out of ideas and i have no clue what to do next with this. I have 2 options open to me: 1) Purchase different ram or 2) Purchase a different motherboard. Anything else I should try before I deep six this ram? I'm open to suggestions, ideas, but i doubt anything you suggest has already been tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 16, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 16, 2007 Was this system running his modules at DDR500? And when you changed them did you load setup defaults before you changed the settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulous Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 Was this system running his modules at DDR500? And when you changed them did you load setup defaults before you changed the settings? Yes to both questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 17, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 17, 2007 Let's get them replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace them or it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulous Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Alrighty then, here we go again. Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 19, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 19, 2007 Have we replaced these once already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulous Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 Have we replaced these once already? Yes. I had the 1gb kit of CMX4400C2.5PT and it was just replaced with a 1gb kit of CMX512-4000PRO which I was having issues with. Anyway I did the online RMA request form as you suggested and did not receive an email with an RMA# nor receipt of the RMA request. After several days of waiting I decided just to drop this and go with another set of ram. I got a 2gb kit of ( Blankety Blank) ram. As soon as I installed it, went into the bios, set all the timings, speed and voltage according to it's rated specs, rebooted and bingo DDR500 without so much as a hiccup. I could not do that with the Corsair CMX512-4000PRO I got as replacements. I remember back in the day Corsair was top dog of the ram world. I don't know what happened, but honestly you people dropped the ball. I know you don't have control over what's made or what works with what. This is a hit or miss thing. I went with what works for me. Appreciated all the help Ram Guy I may/may not RMA the Corsair CMX512-4000PRO I got as replacements. They do make interesting conversation pieces tho. My wife has hid them from me as I was going to have them meet Mr. Sledge. She still won't tell me where she hid them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 22, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 22, 2007 I do understand your frustration and I am sorry, but I would suggest contacting our customer service and they will take care of you with the shipping both ways. 888-222-4346 or 510-657-8747 Ext "0" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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