Had faulty components. I've had a LOT. Here's what components I can remember being faulty, or got broken by something else faulty over the years: Memory card reader x 2 (inwin, Aerocool Coolpanel) Power supply x 2 (Qtec 450, Ebuyer extra value Magna 600 (what did I expect? lol)) Stick of memory x 3 (1 single, and 1 of a set of 2 on two occasions - Samsung 512MB PC2700C2.5 got fried, Elixir 512MB PC3200C3 failed after a year, Corsair 2x512MB PC6400C5 DOA) Floppy drive fried CD Writer x2 (broke, RMAed and the replacement broke within a week) Hard disk x 3 (one fried by bad PSU, the others fried by bad PSU cable - guilty PSU Qtec 450W, Guilty PSU cable came with Hiper Type-R) Fan (shorted out the power supply) Fan controller (Explorer FX-4, output voltage too low) Speakers x 1 set (Creative Inspire T3000, faulty volume control) Microphone x 1 Printer x 2 (Epson Stylus 640 and 670. Power failures. I no longer buy Epson printers) I think that's mostly it, the pairs of headphones I put down to not looking after them well enough. Update: Forgot Asus A8N-SLI SE motherboard - chipset faults Suppose you can count my P5N-E in there too, it doesn't run stable at Stock, so that technically makes it faulty right, even if it does run stable when overclocked? LOL
WOW quite a list. Thats really weird that your mobo isnt stable at clock but it is stable when overclocked. Why don't you get it replaced?
I would but I'd rather not go without a motherboard for the moment, given the number of issues I know someone else has had with the board I'm going to swap it for a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3.
Indeed. Most new motherboards state 8GB maximum. That of course is on the presumption you're using a 64-bit OS. 32-bit will only bag you 4.