Interesting. I actually read stuff like that related to Asrock boards and never used them. Sounds like I made the right choice.
Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days agoThe only RAM issue I ever had was like the 3rd PC I ever built. Using 2 modules in single channel mode worked fine. Putting them in for dual channel fried both the 3rd and 4th DIMM slots on the motherboard and the RAM that was in the 3rd slot.
I RMA’d both. It happened again.
When I sent in for a second RMA, I started wondering what is the issue, the board or the RAM? I never got an answer. Instead I got two companies blaming the other and starting a flame war in my email inbox. The board was from ASRock. I forgot who made the RAM.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I have used a handful of their mid-to-high end motherboards (relative to their product range) and they have never caused any major issues. This is obviously only anecdotal, though.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
Yeah, and to be fair IIRC, this was one of their low-end boards. My dumbass built it on the fucking quadcore Celeron instead of the Core2Duo that just came out because I figured 4 has gotta be better than 2, right? But I was also, like, 14.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It could be the board, it could be the RAM, and it could be a fauly memory controller on your CPU. Although, if this was a while ago (pre-2003 for AMD, pre-2008 for intel) then the memory controller would be on the ASRock board.
In other words, a nightmare to diagnose.