Friday, July 10th 2009
OCZ Technology Also Halts Sales of Elpida Hyper DRAMs
Following earlier reports of failing memory modules with Elpida Hyper chips, first Corsair and now OCZ Technology is stopping sales of Elpida Hyper DRAMs. Although OCZ claims it has not yet seen extended failures in its Elpida Hyper equipped memory modules, because an earlier batches were used, it is also pulling out the presumably affected memory modules and memory kits. This is OCZ's official statement:
Source:
OCZ Support Forums
In regards to the potential issues relating to Elpida Hyper IC's, OCZ has not yet seen extended failures in the field, and the Elipda Hyper IC's we have used came from earlier batches so we do not yet know if this is the reason why we are not seeing field issues but as a proactive measure based on the latest information from media reviewers like AnandTech we have officially held the use of any Elpida Hyper IC's at this time. Any customers that are seeing issues are encouraged to contact us and we will absolutely take care of all customers with a no questions asked refund or exchange for another OCZ product of equal value, whichever the customer prefers. We want to make sure that our customers have peace of mind and the confidence that we will take care of any and all issues related to modules that utilize Elpida Hyper chips.
17 Comments on OCZ Technology Also Halts Sales of Elpida Hyper DRAMs
and for once a company in the USA actually has a decent RMA system here in australia too.
(actually, i have no idea and just wanted to make you sad)
Google seems to show that the dominator GT ram is the elpida, not the one you have.
On the other hand...Its gonna take more than couple of ICs to scare mama's brave boy!!:p
OCZ blade series are the ones with elpida hypers.
other hyper chipped ram include...
dominator GT
kingston hyperx T1
mushkin (some black(XP) and some redline)
chaintech apogee
gskill perfect storm
mushkin ascent
its the kingston hyperX T1 series.
im sure you know if they are hypers or not.
its not that they are crap... just be weary of them dying sooner than a non hyper chipped set.
and to top it off....
i've heard news that SOMEONE(possibly elpida, possibly someone else, im mot going to say) is working on some 2400mhz ICs :D to replace hypers
www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=408774