DDR2 1066 dies young leaves a pretty corpse

[116...@gmail.com]

A few hours a week, I have been testing old PCs donated to charity for re-use.
Recently, started seeing stuff that would have been high-end in its day.
Now every system I looked at with 1066 MHz DDR2 had at least one dead DIMM
in it. Would this suggest that the people who fit this overclocked the shit
out of it?

[Paul]

To run at that speed, may require bumping up VDimm a bit.

And it turns out, that not all memory chips, tolerate
the adjustment that well.

At the very least, get the specs for the memory, and see
if the motherboard VDimm is set higher than the "recommended"
value for the RAM. So if nominal is 1.8V, the package
says 2.0V on the front of it, then if the motherboard was
set to 2.2V, you'd have your answer.

Paul

[Yousuf Khan]

I'd say that it means that some sort of static shock occurred.

Yousuf Khan

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el art�culo <50d4c227-ec0c-4adc...@googlegroups.com>,
116...@gmail.com escribi�:

>Would this suggest that the people who fit this overclocked the shit
>out of it?

I think it's more likely to be quality having taken a nosedive with the
downward pressure on memory prices.

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[Grinder]

I'm going with: malicious gnomes. They're hell on technology.

[Flasherly]

Memory simply doesn't die, hasn't since, lord knows, when individual
chip banks were transferred to PCBs at something along 72-pin
interfaces. Something's not right for fitting that observance.
Discounting extreme abuse from ignorance, overclocking is as likely to
happen as one in a hundred household PC owners being a hardcore gamer,
or at least capable of understanding precepts to implementation in
application. And they're not cheap at that tier, either, if not
homemade then there's apt to be lot of markup;- which doesn't discount
dirt-cheap and sometimes crappy parts, very, constituting for
wholesale in making what goes inside a pretty, pretty retail box with
a brandname sticker. Doesn't really make sense, either, if people are
paying say $500 average for the store-packaged OS/Computer deal, as a
worst-case failure is the PS, MB, CPU cooler fan --say at 3 years
expectancy-- or more likely software corruption of the files on HD,
lack of an ability to restore an OS, constitutes a combined lack of
luster for new advertising campaign tactics and promises, as for a
reason specifically why many computers break.

The memory chips, if only you were to donate them to a landfill with a
token wrapping. In 10 or 20,000 years, imagine what a treasure trove
it would be for future archeologist to stumble upon them to compile
residual resuscitative images, contained on DDR2, (very advanced
string-theory stuff, you see, for every physical binary manipulative
passing through, to contain a correlate action parallel within
universal residual accord), for what once occupied the minds of
average PC household users in the 21st Century.

[larrymo...@my-deja.com]

Or overvolt it? DDR2 chips are rated for an absolute maximum of 2.3V,
but I have a BioStar motherboard that allows setting the memory voltage
up to 2.875V. Also I've seen the rated memory voltage differ as much as
0.15V from meter readings.

Are any of those memory modules Crucial Ballistix, especially the older
ones rated for 2.2V? Crucial told me that they failed when the voltage was
set too low, but no electrical engineer I spoke with believed that.

[hp]

It's quite possible the too low volts failure was actually a performance
failure?? And Not a 'Jim, its dead' failure?

[mmdi...@yahoo.com]

On Sunday, June 2, 2013 8:02:01 PM UTC-7, 116...@gmail.com wrote:

Oh Shit! How fast computer these people want it? DDR2 system has no problem
running any software except games. The gamers are one who always desire for
faster system cos they want to kill faster. I still use DDR1 since came out
no trouble whatsoever.... Is this people life too slow or they can't stand DDR1 or 2 computer. I bet that DDR3 is slower for these them.
This is like watching NASCAR or F1 too slow for them.