I have been using this ram with my AM2 CPU since I got the setup, so I feel confident in saying it hasn't gone bad. I have an M3N78-EM motherboard, which is an AM2+/AM3 board, and so I got myself an AM3 Phenom II x4. When I slapped it in, it seemed to work and all, but I got to the first OS boot and it just froze. A few changes later, I try again and it tkes two tries before I get into the OS, and when I finally did, it behaved very oddly. Over the time of trying to figure out what was wrong, I got several Page_Fault_In_Unpaged_Sector bluescreens as well as Memory_Management bluescreens.I decided to turn it off and feel the RAM, and the channel 1 memory, a pair of Crucial Ballistix Sport 2GB sticks, they were almost to the point they burned my finger. I then checked the other two, a pair of Corsair Value, and the Corsair Value ram was not hot to the touch. Can I get some odeas on what to do?