Well, another one bites the dust. My Mushkin Redline Ascent DDR3 1600 6-6-5-18 kit, THE ONE THEY DON"T MAKE ANYMORE, died. No overvolting, no overheating, ran at 1684 stable (no memtest errors, no FSX crashes/anomalies). Now I'm on my backup RAM, Corsair 1600 8-8-8-24, and it's slow as S&*T! I can't take this. :( I sooooo hope Mushkin come through with another kit. I paid $300 for these paperweights and this is the FOURTH SET! These Elpida Hypers are completely unreliable.Those of you who have these chips it's only a matter of time. I was guarenteed these wouldn't fail and they did-it just took a couple months. I'm not knocking Mushkin but the quality control of these chips is worthless. -jk

Is overclocking killing DDR3 memory, Is it that unstable?

Is overclocking killing DDR3 memory, Is it that unstable?

No overclock needed to get problems with Elpida Hyper based memory.Read more about the problems here: http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=3596

I did clock them up to 1688 or thereabouts, but voltage always set to 1.65 (Rampage II Gene) and everything's kept cool. They passed memtest overnight at 1688 and 6-6-5-18 (over 9 hours) just a couple weeks before. Having these babies @ 1688 6-6-5-18 1T was SWEET!Normally frequency overclocking doesn't damage memory or cpu's, it's the voltage & heat that kill it, and I was very good about that.I was very proud of these gems and I really hope Mushkin has another set.-jk