E6600 + GA-965P-DQ6 recommendation; worried about corsair

[spamal]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good 2GB (2x1GB) 6400 memory pair for this mainboard/cpu setup:

Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
E6600

I'm leaning towards this:
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4 - Retail

However, reading the reviews at Newegg is very disturbing. It seems almost every third person who posts a comment says they had one or more bad sticks.

I know Corsair has had a good reputuation. But from reading recent newegg posts, it sounds really scary to order Corsair right now. Perhaps they've had a bad batch recently?

Does anyone else have the same setup that I do? Any luck on RAM?

Thanks in advance!

p.s. this will be for gaming, minor video editing, and mild overclocking.

 

[Miles72]

I got the dq6 with corsair's pc 5400 and It works like a charm

I was gonna get the pc2 6400 DDR2 800 but just outa my budget

my specs

intel core 2 duo e6400
Gigabyte Ga-965-DQ6
Nvidia 7600gt
2gb Corsair XMS 2GB PC2 5400
320gb Seagate HD

 

[reddog88]

I had that very problem...one stick worked at rated speeds that other wouldn't even work at underclocked speeds. After RMA with newegg still have one stick that works like a charm at 4-4-4-12 the other will only be stable at SPD settings, better but still not what I paid for...I'm currently working with Corsair to get proper mudules. So beware

 

[spamal]

It seems like every other person on newegg is complaining about DOA ram from Corsair. OCZ looks a little better, and a bit cheaper. But even the OCZ sticks seem to have a lot of ppl complaining about DOA.

Is it too much to ask to spend $300 on RAM, and not have it arrive defective? I've been out of the system building loop for over a year; have things changed so much?

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Quality Control has changed a lot since back in the good old days

 

[technology-sponge]

Perhaps its a bad batch. i'm in australia where weve had no issues with corsair.