Yeah. One of my sticks also failed, doesn't boot with it in. Only 16GB is just not enough. And because I bought from a random ebay shop, I don't have the original receipt.
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Mine booted but would cause system instability.
I can get by with 16gb but hopefully I can RMA. GSkill is pretty good on RMA I've heard
I wonder what would actually happen if you ran three sticks (assuming only one is bad). Would it dual channel 16 GB and single channel the other 8 GB? Does anyone know?
I heard it slows performance either way, but since I bought the sticks as a set I have to mail in both for the warranty anyway
Dang, i'm a bit worried for my own RAM as well. I keep getting random reboots on my pc every now and then. I initially suspected my distro to be the problem since it started happening after i hopped, but after feeling like i checked everything on the software side, i'm checking hardware now just to be safe anyway. Started with removing the OC from my RAM. I also have my 5800X3D undervolted though since i saw it recommended at the time. Now that it's a few years old i might just not be stable anymore at that voltage.
I've got two 16GB sticks that I bought in 2020 pullin me through—I'm praying they last long enough til prices go back down haha
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Used to be that all RAM had a lifetime warranty.... Not sure about today
This little maneuver is gonna cost us about three hundred bucks.
Thankfully it's DDR4 so no. I originally bought 2x8gb in Oct 2024 for $35, now they are $135
Gonna try warranty tho
What motherboard is it? I had problems with a 4-stick ddr4 configuration recently and found out the mobo didn't have the same specs on all 4 slots 😅
MSI B450 Tomahawk
Doesn't seem to be plagued by the same limitations as mine... The problem must be somewhere else
My laptop has some serious RAM reading errors. Sometimes the bad block gets mapped to VRAM and there is garbled 64x64 RGBA overlay on screen, otherwise programs or the kernel just crash. It is probably not actually the RAM, which I since upgraded, but a soldered-in chipset... It is rare enough (about 1x/day) to be usable though.
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I recently learned g. Skill had lifetime warranty. Not sure about others but worth a check