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Hating Crucial Memory now-Anybody know about the new G.Skill Pi Black?

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I have been using Crucial Memory for the last 5yrs or so, and while their older stuff was good, I think the current generations are not very good.

I used to have 4x1gb Ballistix ddr2 800. One stick went bad... Go to RMA it and find out Crucial no longer makes the sticks in the same chip configuration... So I RMA all the sticks and get 4 brand new ones. Actually very good customer service, so no complaints there...

Well my system starts randomly rebooting and BSOD's... I narrow it down to one stick.. During that process my wife, who has 2x1gb of Crucial Ballistix in her machine (almost exact specs as mine except no OC) is now getting lock ups, BSOD's and reboots... Now I have to play with her memory

So I purchased on impulse the newish G.Skill Pi Black 2x2gb..I got 8GB for $100....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231209

And I am proud to say that I paid $49.99 for 4gb, not the current $99.99, so I lucked out there!

Anybody know anything about them, good bad or ugly??

Thanks

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Well there great ive got mine at 1033 with 5 4 4 15 timings an 1.9 v mmm they need heavy juice when you go beyond that 2.1 at least for 1100, nice heat spreaders :pt1cable:

Reply to enaher

I have 4x2GB of those sticks in a P5Q Deluxe and the system is stable.

Reply to GhislainG
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I'm sorry you are having problems with the Crucial memory. You should check out the recent article here at Toms:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2079.html

Crucial does pretty well there.

I thought that Micron, Crucial's parent company, made a lot of the chips for other RAM manufacturers.

Good luck with the new RAM.

Reply to huron

The Gskill seems to be very popular around here with overclockers so I'd say they are good.

Here's my recent experience with Crucial. Back in the late 90's, Micron (crucial) was like the best and all our customers asked for it specifically. So I was not hesitant to get 4gb of Crucial Balistix Tracer 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v when it went on sale with a huge rebate.
After about 2 months, I started getting stop errors. I narrowed it down to 1 of the 4 sticks and rma'd it. Got a replacement and everything was fine for another month, till last week I started crashing in games. At first I thought it was windows and did a repair but that didnt help. I started narrowing it down by starting with one stick, testing with memtest and then adding another and so on. Well 3 of the sticks fail memtest within seconds so now I'm rma'ing all 4 sticks and went ahead and purchased 2x2gb Corsair. I plan on selling the Crucial sticks on Craigslist when I get them back.
I knew it couldnt just be me that had so much trouble with these things.
Funny thing is they get a awesome review by THG in the "4gb gets cheap: 9 dual channel kits compared" article.
Oh well, I guess every company has issues with some products, but you wont see me buy, or recommend crucial ever again.
There customer service is good though.

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