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A few weeks ago I have (re)started playing with AM3 and AM3+.

As a result (and please take it as a warning) I've killed or damaged my entire stock of 4 sticks of Elpida Hyper having never exceeded 1.7 Vmem.

Therefore, I am looking for replacement Hypers to resume on 775, 1156 and 1366.

My standards are high as my platforms can easily run 1050+ with 6-7-5.

Ideally, I'm looking for some Corsair 2000C7 or GTX2 since I've been using these for years without any compatibility or reliability issues.

If you have these and would rather have a pair for sentimental or collector purposes, I can also offer two damaged sticks of GTX2 and two damaged sticks of Corsair 2000C7 in exchange.

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Both GTX2 sticks show code '55' when plugged into an M7I. This did not happen when I did a "seasonal" health check some weeks ago.

One of 2000C7 sticks was known to have memtest errors ever since I bought it, but it never caused issues under benching. Now I can't even enter OS at JEDEC without explorer or svchost crashing.

In the last month I spent a lot of time shuffling sticks since Hyper compatibility on AMD is poor, at best. Load-wise haven't done anything remotely dangerious: just binning / efficiency comparison tests at 800-833 6-6-6 with 1.7V. Of course, I ran 2V+ for extended periods of time before which might have causes some non-immediate damage that got exposed and worsened by running on AMD.

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1.7 vddr is lethal on amd only or intel as well?

 

Edit: refreshed and saw Sam's answer, I think it satifies me :)

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my gtx2 take 2,14-2,16v  1100c6 on p55 with stok air and they are not dead or damage yet ?

all my vers 2.1 about 25 stik have all been over 1.9v and they are still happy ?

 

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That could be a dram vrm bug of a partucular board to kill it - not a platform issue. I had s478 board recently with pll mod that was accidentally killing cpus although pll voltage was in line with no-mod boards.

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Probably a bad board, especially if no high voltages used. Can't be 100% sure, but my Hypers are still ok after benching on AM3 numerous times.

I'm the one who "resurrected" one of my GTX2 sticks 2 or 3 times, but as far as I understood his problem is a little different.

As for the SPD flashing, I've found a second board that boots with one good and one dead stick - Crosshair V Formula.

The good stick doesn't really need to be Hyper-based, a random one works too, as long as you have the needed SPD file saved on the drive.

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17 minutes ago, I.nfraR.ed said:

Probably a bad board, especially if no high voltages used. Can't be 100% sure, but my Hypers are still ok after benching on AM3 numerous times.

I'm the one who "resurrected" one of my GTX2 sticks 2 or 3 times, but as far as I understood his problem is a little different.

As for the SPD flashing, I've found a second board that boots with one good and one dead stick - Crosshair V Formula.

The good stick doesn't really need to be Hyper-based, a random one works too, as long as you have the needed SPD file saved on the drive.

what software did you use for flashing the stick ?

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39 minutes ago, Gigelz said:

what software did you use for flashing the stick ?

On older platforms you can still use spd tool which works very reliable

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