That analogy makes no sense whatsoever.
If consumer RAM can't survive normal consumer cooling at default settings, then it should not be sold as such.
i agree with you but at the same time, things which are ramp'd up way past what they are suposed to will not LAST.
Everyone knew these were 1.9V modules which crucial was overvolting to 2.2
You cant tell me you didnt know that, because then you didnt do any research when you went to buy parts.
The only reason why u bought them was for overclocking because they were the only type of ram which could handle the high fsb a C2D / C2Q were pumping out until the conception of DDR3.
I'd rather have slower ram and secure data than faster ram and corrupt data. Would have been different if Crucial actually advertised Ballistix as OVERCLOCK YOUR MOMS PHOTOS AND SLAM DUNK THEM INTO THE TOILET TO THE EXTREME, ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE FOR ADEQUATE COOLING?
Thats EXACTLY how balastix were labeled.
Why did you buy them?
Oh yea so u could get those HIGH FSB on a budget CPU while maintaining a mem divider...
Did u forget that? Because if i recall i had problems with hynix and other vendors when i wanted to get those oh so beautiful 3.6ghz+ numbers on my Cpu.
BS. Ballistix ram was the biggest turd of a ram I have ever touched. The ram I bought was rated at DDR2-800 at 2.2 volts. Since I didn't overclock, I ran it at DDR2-667 at 2.0 volts. I ran it way under specs and it still died.
1.9V!!!!!
NOT 2.0... NOT 1.95 NOT 2.1 where most people ran them.
1.9V
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM
According to JEDEC[1] the maximum recommended voltage is 1.9 volts and should be considered the absolute maximum when memory stability is an issue (such as in servers or other mission critical devices).
Thats how much they were factory overclocked...
Thats why they died so fast.
Thats why they heated up like no tomorrow.
This info isnt new people...
Your ranting about something which was slatted to die unless u did intervention on your own end.
No one in the right sense of mind would overvolt 1.5V ddr to 1.8V...
But this is what crucial did... and if u didnt change the values yourself, it would die like how they did...
And since ram had lifetime warrenty no one really cared to learn what the product was until you killed one, and then i hope you learned what they were and fixed it.
But we all knew this... people are playing like this is totally new info...
If someone told u to overvolt your DDR3 to 1.8 what would you tell them?
If you saw a VENDOR now overvolt there DDR3 to 1.8v what would you do?
This is why i tell people if ur complaining about balastix dying.. well, you really didnt know what balastix were...
Because if u did, you would of accepted them dying and had backups for the chips when they did die, so you could have a spare while RMA was being taken care of.
Because again, you knew they were ticking bombs due to the spec's they were listed at being way outside JEDEC's specs.