Ok.. so your interrupting my down time so you can have an online hissy-fit because your toy is not together yet

Let me get this strait… instead of sending you what they think may be defective product, you are mad because they did the right thing and held the orders?

Granted they probably should have contacted you to let you know your order was delayed but do me a favor, you are trashing one of the best memory companies on the planet and doing so not because you got defective product but because your new toy is not working yet… OK, I can dig it but lets be reasonable.

So there is some kind of issue with the batch? I will check on it but I did not know anything about it. If I had, I would not have made the recommendation.

Life is full of surprises and delays sometimes.


And just an FYI… going from 7-8-7 to 8-8-8 DDR3 1600 on i7 is NOT, REPEAT NOT the same type of loss as going from CAS 7 to CAS 8 on past Intel.

If you are unhappy with what has happened I suggest you ask for a refund and order 8-8-8 DDR3 1600 from Newegg

By the way, OCZ just released CAS7-7-7 memory DDR3 1600 and its at Newegg making it faster than Mushkin

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227381


If you overnight it, you will have it before xmas



EDIT: Whops!   Too late, out of stock... it was in stock when I checked earlier today

So 8-8-8 is your option and it will clock just the same, just not the same latency

Sometimes things dont go the way we planned..  I have had to wait to complete a build many times because of delays like this or I had to settile for something else since I usually build cutting edge..  delays like this come with the territory


now calm down and realize your angry because its xmas and you want your toy... crap happens   

Nick,
I respect the fact that Mushkin is one of the best memory companies out there.. however, in customer support.. they are not. I've been looking through their online forums for days now and I have seen many complaints about their shipping and RMA's.. many of the products they have sent out have turned out to be defective..

I understand that they are doing the right thing by testing the memory before the ship it out to make sure it works.. but I have been waiting for over two weeks now and I hadn't received any information on the status until I called them myself..

about the batch.. they received one last week and they ran tests on all the sticks and many of them turned out to be defective so they had to send them back and ask for more to be tested this week.. maybe next.. I'm glad that they're doing that but please understand that I spent a lot of money that doesn't come by me often at all and it's hard for me to wait for something so expensive without knowing what is going on with my order..

I don't care about the fact that it's almost Christmas.. I could care less.. I would have had this 'fit' had it been any other time of the year.. the reason I am upset is because they did not tell me a thing about my order status and I waited for two weeks without knowing anything at all..




if that OCZ memory is faster then I will wait for them to become available to Newegg and buy them and get my money back from Mushkin.. thanks for letting me know about the new RAM from OCZ anyways

take a break from the hectic forums.. you deserve it 

your requested links, sir:

http://forums.mushkin.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=3

http://forums.mushkin.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=4

I'm going to cancel my order on that anyways and just get the faster OCZ..... even if I have to wait longer

you are right Nick

I've been impatient and inconsiderable of the fact that they're doing this for good reasons and so I don't have trouble with their product

now that my rampage is has calmed.. I'd like to apologize to everyone for having to read this crap that I've posted.. I need to learn to be more patient and considerable of why things like this happen.. if I had a business then I'd do the same as they are doing now so my customers don't struggle with my product

I've learned my lesson today to stay calm and not rant due to impatience and inconsideration

once again I'm sorry




anyways, now that I'm done dealing with this in such a way.. I have one question if you don't mind, Nick..

will the Core i7 work with 2gb ddr2 800? or does it only work with triple channel kits? the reason I ask is because I'm thinking of just setting up my system now.. that way, when the memory gets here all I have to do is just pop the sticks in and start overclocking..

Quote:

... I've already done quite a good job of making myself seem like an ass and have sincerely apologized for my comments.. quite frankly I don't appreciate your continuous attacks on me. if that's not how you mean it then I'm sorry again for taking it that way but that's what it seems.. I'm sure you've done stupid $hit during your lifetime as well and I have admitted that this is such a moment for me and I would appreciate it if you would stop making me seem like such an antagonist after only one screw up in the time that I've been here.. I have a lot of respect for you Nick and I've even sent you a PM apologizing to you personally even after publicly apologizing here in the forums.. it'd be great if we could just go on and stop arguing here.. it's bad enough I've made such a fool of myself in front of everyone here in the forums and I hope everyone can take my apology and get on with everything...

in the spirit of Mortal Kombat...

NickN wins! Finish him!



happy holidays Nick 

NickN wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2008 at 11:32pm:

I'll sleep on that Nick.. if you say it won't be much of a difference between cas7 or cas8 at 4ghz then I might as well go get it.. I'll wake up tomorrow and see what I decide but I'll probably end up driving the 17.2miles to get it tomorrow in the morning before work..

one more thing that I'm contemplating is which thermal compound to apply to the heatsink.. I've ordered Arctic Silver 5 from Newegg but it's not here yet.. but I do have the thermal compound that came with the heatsink itself.. will it make much of a difference in temps whether I use one or the other or am I safe to just go with the one that came with the heatsink?