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- May 29, 2007
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- Heart of England
I bought some Kingston Hyper-X PC2-8500 ram a few months ago, and the first set worked wonderfully at 1066MHz for a month or two. Then one day I woke up to find my computer wouldn't post, no bleeps, nothing. Having reset the board I found the ram to be the problem. I don't know what happened to it, but I sent it back and got a replacement. The second set wouldn't boot at 1066MHz, but they would boot at 1000MHz. However, they were not stable at all at 1000MHz. At 800MHz they were stable, but I didn't pay for PC-8500 only to run at 800MHz. So, I sent this second set back and received a third. Guess what??? They won't post at 1066MHz either. I finally got so fed up with this I contacted Kingston Europe with screenshots of memtest producing errors and a full detailed explanation of what was going on.
The reply I got was the following;
"Please note that we do not support the KHX8500D2K2/2G with the Asus P5B-E Plus.
We support up to KHX6400D2LLK2/2G. "
So now I am being told they don't support it, which isn't to say it can't work, it's just their way out of a problem. I would like to point this out to anyone else who is thinking of buying Kingston. I'm not telling you to avoid Kingston, but look at the facts. I am sure there are people on this forum running memory at more than 800MHz on a P5B-E plus??? If so, please post on here what memory you are running and at what speed as I am going to have to sell this Kingston ram and buy something decent. Finally, are the P5B-E Plus and the P5B deluxe or P5k entirely different in this respect?
Thanks
The reply I got was the following;
"Please note that we do not support the KHX8500D2K2/2G with the Asus P5B-E Plus.
We support up to KHX6400D2LLK2/2G. "
So now I am being told they don't support it, which isn't to say it can't work, it's just their way out of a problem. I would like to point this out to anyone else who is thinking of buying Kingston. I'm not telling you to avoid Kingston, but look at the facts. I am sure there are people on this forum running memory at more than 800MHz on a P5B-E plus??? If so, please post on here what memory you are running and at what speed as I am going to have to sell this Kingston ram and buy something decent. Finally, are the P5B-E Plus and the P5B deluxe or P5k entirely different in this respect?
Thanks