What to do when reseller goes out of bussiness (rma) ?

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Ok,

About a week ago, I shipped the damn chip ;) :)

Even the lady at the post office was giving me hard time... (She complaining
my packaging skills were bad and she helped me a bit after I asked her to
improve it if she really believed it was necessary... then she wanted it to
send it like a envolope but I said no ! it must go as a package... because
its a chip and maybe it goes bad in envelope and corsair dont want no
envelopes) So finally I convinced her to send it out as a package ;) (I also
included a little printed thingy with my crappy nec p20 printer... <-corsair
wanted an e-mail in there as well.. no idea why but I thought I better
comply with it just in case !;):))

That was on friday a week+ ago... Then on monday the chip was really shipped
by them... <- the post office.

Then I got a couple of confirmation e-mails from Corsair that they received
it...

Then I heard nothing from them anymore.

And today I got an e-mail... my RMA replacement is underway. (Via ups ?!
ooooeehh ;):) <- Tracking information available too ;))

So it should arrive soon.

I was starting to wonder if I would ever hear from them again ! ;)

Now I wonder if it's *new* chip or just my old chip :)

So as soon as I get it I put it into my PC and then I test it... and then I
do a little udp speed test 2 to see if the speed is now faster again thanks
to dual channel memory ! =D

So far so good ! ;)

Fingers crossed...

At least I am getting back something... even a damaged chip would be
interesting to have in case I ever wanted to test some corruption
detection... or anti-corruption tech ;)

But I rather just have a good chip... I can more or less simulate
corruption... besides the corruption was so bad the computer might not even
boot ;) :)

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
WOW,

The postman just came by !

CORSAIR GAVE ME TWO NEW(?) MEMORY CHIPS ! =D

I only sent one LOL.

I GOT TWO LOL.

Brand new ?!

I haven't tested them yet though...

I'll do that tomorrow when my computer is cold... and when I am fresh ! :)

Anyway it come in a nice little brown package (karton dont know the english
word for it).

So now I have a nice little box as well which I could re-use to send other
little parts if I ever need to which is nice as well =D

The plastic thingy that is inside has been opened though... so maybe one of
the chips is my old chip... I don't know yet... ;)

It would be kinda funny if I had the old chip as well :)

Gje... now I have to pick one lol... I'll just pick one and go with it...

I should have written down the numbers on the chips...

Fortunately I have pictures of all my chips... so maybe I can compare those.

Tomorrow more info on this progress ;)

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Skybuck Flying said:
WOW,

The postman just came by !

CORSAIR GAVE ME TWO NEW(?) MEMORY CHIPS ! =D

I only sent one LOL.

I GOT TWO LOL.
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So FKIN WHAT!

Now is when you admitt your lack of knowledge. Dual channel kits require
BOTH chips to be sent back if you are sending for replacement. Check the
serial numbers they should be very close.
 
Man,

I still didn't place the new chip inside.

Apologies for anybody following this thread.

I'll try to do it tomorrow or so... I keep forgetting to first do that and
then turn on pc oh well.

I'll just do one little more speed test or so so I have some figures to
compare ;)

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Ok,

Speed limit with 3 chips inside and single channel memory was:

250.000.000 bytes per second with udp speed test 2 at everything maxed out
and 127.0.0.1 and cpu at 100%.

Tomorrow I will test with 4 chips and dual channel memory hopefully ! ;)

I also tested my memory benchmark program (with 4 threads, memory locking
etc) but it's giving very inconsistent results so **** that ;) Anyway
figures were 140 MB/sec then 50 MB/sec... it was just weird.. but there ya
go..

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Ok,

I just installed the new chip... I dropped it a couple of centimeters onto
the motherboard... trying to install it vertically... then I decided that
wasn't too smart... and I decided to go through the boring process of
detaching all cables and moving the pc and placing it horizontally to
install the chip which I finally did...

Then I re-configured the bios setup which resets itself if something
changes...

I also changed the link frequency for the graphics card... It was default at
2x... I changed it to 5x because I noticed crysis was a bit slow with
mainstream graphics... maybe it will now be a little bit faster... I hope it
doesn't damage my system or anything like that... So I gotta investigate
with this does later on... but I had in the past and didn't seem much of
problem then except ofcourse the overheat... but that should be solved now
thanks to new case... and the top graphics card removed which was probably
the overheater... and ofcourse a very big new super cooler for cpu =D

Anyway I did the udp speed test again... and this time it was: 260.000.000
bytes per second...

So that's 10.000.000 bytes better result... the boot screen said: dual
channel so it is in dual channel.

I do limit the memory to 2 GB in X64... so it's not actually using 4GB
because of soundblaster driver problems... so I don't know if that might be
limiting the dual channel... (?).

Another explanation could be the system is still cold...

Anyway the speed is a little bit better now which is kinda funny and nice.

Later today before I go to sleep I will test again to see if a hot system
makes any difference in speed.

I will also start changing my udp speed test... so that it can use
overlapped i/o and multi threading... and a new speed throttle idea to see
if that will make any difference...

And this change is probably necessary to support multi-core processor in the
future ! ;) and it has other benefits for single core as well... but I am
not gonna describe it here ! :P* ;) =D

(So far the new chip seems to be working... both chips had the same number
on it...I made a picture of it just in case ! ;))

Gonna compare pictures later today ! ;)

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Ok,

Just for the record, speed is still 260.000.000 after having the pc on the
whole day ! ;)

Not looked at pictures yet... maybe do that tomorrow or maybe not at all
anymore... it's not so interesting.

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
There after some further optimizations and multi threading support.

The sender can now achieve 333.000.000 bytes per second via the loopback
interface while the receiver is running.

If the receiver is not running it can even achieve 391.000.000 bytes per
second :)

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
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