• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Rant about Mushkin

T

thezfunk

Limp Gawd
2FA
Joined
Mar 9, 2003
Messages
389
Ok guys I am done with this stuff. I have bought 3 dual packs now. One level 2 and two level 1's. All of them 3500. I run them at stock speed only to have my computer be unstable. Run mem test to find tons of errors. I got this stuff to overclock but I can't get it to run stable at stock speed! I have my Crucial 2700 in there and the stuff runs for days overclocked with no memtest errors. This will be the 3rd RMA to newegg. What else can I try? Who else can I try? I think I am pretty much finished with Mushkin. I would think about crucial but they don't may anything higher than 3200 CAS 3. That blows. I can't use BH-5 chips cuz my motherboard doesn't like it. I need low latency memory 3500 that is quality!
 
boy I would love to but my board (Shuttle AN35 Ultra) goes only to 2.7v. I have also just done various things to this memory from timings to switching them to single channel and a host of other things. Everytime I run memtest I get between 2500 and 6400 errors. I have ONE last hope for this thing. We are getting in a Asus KT600 board on thursday. Will run it in there extensively and see if it errors out. If it does I will try to not smash this garbage and actually send it back AGAIN!

Even if it would have worked in single channel or even if it works with higher volts why should I be satisfied? It advertises something it can't deliver if that is the case. Its a dual pack rated for 2.6-2.7 volts. If it can't deliver its not my problem its theirs.

Oh and a note on your sig....ADULT SWIM ROCKS!
 
I can't believe you just called the best RAM garbage.

Is your BIOS updated?

It's not the memory, my guess would be your motherboard.
 
Originally posted by GCK
I can't believe you just called the best RAM garbage.

Is your BIOS updated?

It's not the memory, my guess would be your motherboard.
Click to expand...

pretty bold to jump to the conclusion that it's not the memory. Even though you'd think that at least one of the three sets would have been good...it may have been a bad batch. I see that happen all the time at work where we get parts in 3 or 4 different times, same part, all bad. Granted, it's not mushkin, it's HP.

But I do agree...try the ram in a different board...try in an Intel board. It is very unlikely that it's the ram.
 
Maybe that's his point that it's the motherboard. Statistically it's not very likely to get 3 bad pairs of RAM in a row. It's either the motherboard or user error.
 
Couldnt get my Mushkin 222 ram to run at stock speeds that I just bought a bit ago. RMAd it. It had several errors in memtest as well. There is a guy in another post having issues too. Maybe in production during the switch to the bh-6 some baaad things happened heh.
 
Alright gentlemen if everyone is done telling me how I screwed things up/how my motherboards sucks etc I will tell you how all the other tests have gone.

3 motherboards later with infinite combinations of voltage, timings, and various other things my best memtest run was 2500 errors. Thats right 2 thousand five hundred. This is the 3rd dual pack I have gotten in the past month in a half from Newegg that is crap. Yes thats right the Mushkin I have gotten is garbage. The first dual pack was Level 2 and the last 2 were Level 1. I know Newegg isn't the problem but something is definitely wrong here. Time to RMA again. I am just glad it isn't my motherboard that is bad. Also time to repost on the Mushkin forums and give everyone over there who critized me the finger. :)

P.S.
If you go over to the Mushkin forums more of this problem is appearing and one guy said he has been calling tech support to get RMA # and no one is answering.
 
at least now a lesson can be realized that when you pay more for a good name, you don't always get the quality behind it.

everyone has bad batches...most companies learn from their first or second

Maybe it's a mushkin employee that's dancing on carpet zapping the modules before shipment...:p
 
does any other company make Mushkin Level 1 similiar ram. I don't want BH-5 stuff but I want a ram similiar to Level 1 just with another company. I can't give up I have a computer to finish overclocking!
 
I'm not sure about the specs on mushkin level 1, but have you looked at Corsair? I hear the ones with the LEDs on them are supposed to kick ass (because of their stability/speed...not the pretty lights)
 
Originally posted by thezfunk
boy I would love to but my board (Shuttle AN35 Ultra) goes only to 2.7v.
Click to expand...

I have a gig of Buffalo PC3200 CH-5 in my AN35N Ultra. CH-5 a perfect fit for the AN35N because CH-5 is internally regulated to 2.7V, which happens to be this board's maximum memory voltage.
 
Personally since almost day one I've paid the extra money for high end Mushkin memory and never looked back just rock solid stable can beat it like a 10 cent whore on nickel night and it keeps coming back for more.

sorry you hare having so much trouble with it
 
uhh there are sosgy stores that knock off name brands for cheap stuff. ie colorcase.com is one.
 
Mushkin is some of the best ram out there. The odds that you got 3 bad batches are extremely slim. The odds that something wacked is going on with shipping to you or with your config (or your own static protection) is much higher.

When I can afford the good stuff I buy Mushkin.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top