Customer Reviews

CORSAIR XMS2 1GB PC2-6400 800MHz 240-pin DDR2 CL5 Dual Channel Desktop Memory - CM2X1024-6400

5 star:		(101)
4 star:		(26)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(21)

 

 

This ram comes in flavors from revision 1 to I believe revision 6 (the latest revision I heard about..). I believe after revision 3 or 4 they started using Promo or other crappy memory chips instead of the really good Micron chips. The cheaper ram chips run OK most of the time but the real draw back is that they have shorter life and most importantly DO NOT overclock well at all. So, unless you know you are getting an early revision of these sticks, don't bother. If you really want a memory from Corsair that just runs at stock speeds, then you are better off with the slightly more expensive CL4 versions anyway since they are so much faster.

This is perfectly good ram. It works perfectly. However, it is NOT 5-5-5-12 timing! The actualy timing, as printed on the module, is 5-5-5-18! Be aware of this before you order from this page.

After shopping around, this seems to be the most affordable RAM per GB. I have purchased 2 of the two packs, and both arrived in good working order. I have been running them for a couple of weeks now, and all are stable. Note: I can't vouch for any overclocked performance, have only been running stock.

This product has good quality and good price.

Note: The temperature is a bit high.

I will probably be stuck with 2 Corsair RAM after these two bad RAM are replaced and returned to me, but if I had a choice I would not get them again, even though they do look cool.

I wouldn't mind if one, or even both RAMs were DOA, but the situation is worse. The RAM comes with two metal panels on each side for grip (and possibly cooling). Not only was one RAM bad (memtest spotted that one) but the other RAM broke when pulled out of the motherboard. One of the two metal panels just snapped off. It was shocking given how these are supposed to be above average RAM.

I could get some heat sink thermal compound and put it back on but I decided not too because the other bad RAM must go back anyway.

Corsair gets good reviews but this is far from solid, stable RAM. Poor quality control coupled with hardware that part in your hand didn't bold well for me. I ended up going down to the local computer store and buying a set of average common looking 2GB 800 mhz RAM, for less, which worked. Before Corsair can sell their image as a leading brand name they need to up quality control and provide working hardware first, then much better robustness and after that we can talk cool looks.

When I do get the RAM back my system will be 4 GB of memory in total but this RAM experience set me back. I can't comment on performance, as I would have liked to, but to be honest it isn't all about the performance and as you can see not even getting things off the ground result in bad reviews. I will keep you updated on what happens next.

*Update 16th July 2008*
I went through 5 sticks in total to get 2 working ones. That is a 60% failure rate. I would just spend on regular RAM in the future and forget about splashing out for fancy RAM.

Plugged 'em in and they work great (8GB total RAM now). Even though 32-bit apps can't address above 3GB, Windows Vista 64-bit caches data in high upper memory and makes the system perform faster. Arrived fast and in perfect condition. Appear to be of high quality.

UPDATE: Had one of these go bad. Started getting Blue Screens of Death. A diagnostic identified which one, I pulled the pair and send to Corsair for warranty replacement. They shipped back the replacements quickly and I'm back in business. Unfortunate that I had a failure but excellent service by Corsair so I'm still a happy camper.

it works with no prob for a month already, and i got it with a very nice price.

After installing, this RAM caused constant reboots on my machine. Corsair is usually great RAM, so I chalk this up to a bad batch.

We built a fairly nice machine running these cards with intel core 2 2.33 cpu 4g cashe i suggest if your running any quad cpu run 8 gigs or higher on 64 bit vista or simply buy better cards at higher memory as these become unstable running big programs they work great if your only biz with your machine is becoming a net surf junky.

When i received these they came in two different versions. dead and fried. I'm sure there fine when they work but after spending a month replacing motherboards and processors find out these guys were the problem and by the time i find out it's too late to take em back. so not super happy.