Corsair xms

sladoid

sladoid

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What do you guys think about this ram? Have their been any problems with it?

The reason I am asking is because for some reason my corsair xms ram just stoped working. I dont know why, so I am just wondering if this has been happening to other people too.

I have had it for about 4 months now and it has been amazing. I have had no problems with it. But one day while I was doing a disk cleanup I come back and the ram isnt working.

XMS3202 v2.2 "Platinum Series"

3200
1gb
400MHz
cl2
 
i have a 512mb stick of this stuff; really nice stuff. It may have died as can happen with any component. You shouldn't have any problems if its under warranty.
 
Cromewell said:
It will still be under warranty, talk to the corsair customer service people and they should arrange an RMA for you. http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/warranty.html

edit: You probably should run memtest to make sure it is the RAM that isn't working before you do anything else.
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Thanks, I was going to look up the warranty.

I have put it into other computers and it doesnt work. So I am still assuming it is messed up some how.
 
Well I was reading the warranty part and it tells you to do some troubleshooting before you rma it.

So I stick the ram back in my pc and it works, but is very unstable.

To try and stable it I have been going through the bios and making sure everything is where it is recommended to be.

But I cant find out where to edit the latency. I have Phoenix bios and I am in the DRAM configuration. I am familiar with the bios, but I have never needed or wanted to oc my ram. So if anyone knows what to change please tell me. I will be looking through my bios book and try to find out where it is.
 
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I havent had my XMS for long, and it refuses to OC past 220mhz. Even with an increase in voltage. Crap. Xtreme Memory Speed my ass. But it works perfectly fine at 200mhz.
 
i believe the point of XMS is that it has very tight timings and the performance comes from that. I dont think my XMS can overclock much either.
And to be honest the heat spreader is only there for show really.
 
the point of XMS is that it has very tight timings and the performance comes from that
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Basically, yes. You usually have to drop the timings to get more clock speed, it's when dropping the timings doesn't allow for much gain in clock speed that you've hit the limit.
 
My XMS set overclocks quite well, the main limiting factor is my motherboard, since I can't overvolt them or up the FSB much. Maybe the tight timings/low overclock was only during DDR?
 
not quite the same sticks i think but mine works fine

i got the twinX pack 1gb kit

512mb x2 advertised at 3-3-3-8 @ 200, ran fine for me on stock voltage at 2.5-3-3-6 @ 220
 
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