OCZ 2GB PC2-8500 nVIDIA SLI Ready (2x1GB)

[DoctorB]

Bought it from aria a week ago but my motherboard wont recognise it for some reason. However the memory is perfect as i tested it in 3 other mobos. so there is a problem with my mobo. I have a crucial 6400 installed and is working fine. I wanted to return it to aria but they wont as there is no fault with the memory. And as i have no use for it anymore i want to sell it.

Is anybody interested in buying it. Help a guy out here. Dont want £38 to go as a waste.

Regards.

[wonderlust]

Have you tried setting the spec'd votlage and timings in the bios whilst using the working ram then swapping it over?

[Mul.]

Which motherboard isn't it working in?

[DoctorB]

i have tried everything....tried every timing..voltage..swapped into different slots...updated the bios. and everything i could think of. mobo is gigabyte ga-p35-ds4. i know it supports this memory, thats the reason i bought it. For some reason i get the blue screen of death. I have got the memory for a tenner from a mate as hes got money to waste on the lastest rig and doesnt care.

I just want to sell it. and get my money back so i can invest that in a reasonable heatsink to overclock the e6550 to 3 gig.

[Mul.]

Ah, another poor sod with a 7x multi CPU. My board refuses to take anything more than 400FSB nor is my RAM capable of much.

The board should be able to pick it up fine. Other than clearing the CMOS I can't think of anything more to try really. If you're positive it works fine in other boards, I'd agree with your plan of just selling them on. It's tricky trying to pick a PC2-6400 kit that'll overclock well now so I'd just opt for a quality PC2-8000 / 8500 kit for your CPU. Maybe Ballistix/Ballistix Tracers (although the new revision ones are dropping like flies at present?) or OCZ Reapers.

edit - w00t 500th post :D

[DoctorB]

i have tried every possible solution and spent half an hour on the phone with the sodding gigabyte customer services. No luck. I will see what i can do with the memory situation. But yeah i have tried every thing and my last resort was to sell it and get the money back. Its not even been used and i will give a copy of the receipt. £35 with postage. anyone ?

my mobo is capable of doing about 450 fsb and i got the e6550 which was a week old for £70 not bad eh :D

[marsey99]

sry bro im looking for some ddr1200 :(

[DoctorB]

its alright. Ill give it a day or two more. If nothing happens and no1 wants to buy then well...i dont know. maybe ebay but they bleeding charge too much fees and everything :/

[PeterStoba]

Maybe Ballistix/Ballistix Tracers (although the new revision ones are dropping like flies at present?)

True, and the new ones aren't double sided anymore

[wonderlust]

So it seems that many manufacturers are shipping inferior products under the same names as older better products?

[marsey99]

not true in a sense, the ram chips on the newwer ones are higher density so they need less for a 1gb stick.


but having said that its nothing new for the quality of things to drop once they get a name for being good.

[Mul.]

So it seems that many manufacturers are shipping inferior products under the same names as older better products?

I've found now that a lot of the uber DDR2 kits are 4GB kits now. Whatever Memory IC's some of them seem to have, they appear to be very good. It seems as though the really good lower density IC's on 2GB kits (D9GMH's) are disappearing and the only ones that are still advertising as D9GMH exclusive are so expensive you could just buy a 4GB PC2-8500 set or a 2GB PC2-8500 set for less!

[wonderlust]

so to degree my statement is correct?

[PeterStoba]

Yeah, but it doesn't matter to the majority of users.

[marsey99]

o yea, your spot on from an ocers perspective, these new ics are not as responsive to volts as the lower density ones (in most cases they will run just as high on 2.0v as 2.2 or more) so they wont clock as high but from a technological view point they are better due to their design.

if your on an older 945/965 board that can only address so many sides of ram chips getting single sided sticks can be a god send.


but what i was talking about is how often do ram makers stick hand picked ics on a set of ram only to change them later in its lifecycle to cheaper ics once they have made a name for themselves as great sticks? just look at the ramlist and you will see they all do it for most of the line ups other than the very top of the line.


http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/

[DoctorB]

LoL. guys guys. m trying to sell my memory here :D 35£ with postage. any takers ?

[V|per]

If it's less than 7 days old, and you have the original packaging (and everything looks ok..) you can send the item back under the DSA, it's within your rights =)

[DoctorB]

I actually contacted the aria customer services within a 7 days and they refused to take it back unless there is a problem with it. Which there isnt. And they wont refund me. They will give me some credit vouchers which i will have to use within six months. now that is absolute ********.

Its in the original packing and only used for not more than 25-20 hours. Its practically new.

[alexnifty]

Could be wrong but I think in order to claim under the Distance Selling Act thingy you have to have not opened the box, or used the product. :(

[DoctorB]

well what i know is my mobo screwed me over..lol. my only chance is to sell this memory. or flok it off on fleabay.


sold it for 32£.