Kingston ValueRAM sucks ? ?

[AMD T-type]

I've recently put 5 sticks of Kingston ValueRAM 256MB DDR PC2700 in some builds i've done for customers.

3 of the 5 sticks have gone bad already and it put my in a hugh pinch seeing that 2 of the PC's were in a business and i only had one extra stick for break/fix (yeah i know, bad me )

Is this some sort of issue ?
I'm wondering if i should just start using Crucial.

 

[t5brick]

i've never had a problem with it. it's got a lifetime warranty, and depending on where you bought it, you may be able to just swap it out right there.

 

[bobsaget]

my ram has been great for about 6 months now

 

[ycchan]

it works better than my mushkin lmao....something wrong with my new ram ...argh

 

[CIWS]

I've only purchased a couple of 512 sticks about 9 months ago, but they are still working.

 

[RickyJ]

I've been pushing my 512MB stick of PC2700 Kingston Valueram at 200MHz FSB at stock voltages since last September when I built my machine. Was rock solid using Prime95, etc.

I decided to see how far I could push this ram on BIOS voltages. 2.9V and it got errors in Memtest at anything 210MHz and beyond. Stable at 205MHz with 3-4-4-11T @ 2.9V, though I haven't played with timings much. Dropped down to 2.5-4-4-11T at same voltage, and Prime95 gave me ILLEGAL SUMOUT warnings after about an hour. I think I was surfing and using MSN at the time, so maybe that did it?

 

[Drisler]

What I got, memtest stable, with a 256mb kvr3200.