Suggestions for memory upgrade

Nope. Nothing wrong with them. In fact, I put them in another machine and they worked perfect. Do a Google search and you'll see what I mean. Fortunately I own a computer business, so I have access to as much of a product as I need. I can always pull off the shelf in a pinch. I just get very anal about it if it doesn't go as planned and/or doesn't make any sense. Part of being a perfectionist perhaps?

adweston, I'm like that also mate, if something isn't working like it should I can't rest until I have resolved it!

I won't be overclocking my memory. Now that I've installed it, everything is working really well (fortunately) aside a wierd problem at first where my graphics card drivers stopped functioning/needed complete clean and reinstall :suspiciou:dead: (I think it was just a coincidence). Anyway, I must say that I'm really pleased with the performance; framerate stability during games is flawless, alt-tabbing out of games like Crysis takes seconds (2GB choked in that situation and took minutes) and I am able to run other programs like IE (or whatever) in the foreground, and lastly RAM previews are as big as I'll ever need them

This is using two different brands of memory though, and again I can't report anything strange at all so I think that as long as the user checks the voltage speed and timing of the memory mixing different brands doesn't seem to be a problem - I'd still recommend that someone uses one type of memory, but I wouldn't discard the idea of using two brands

Just wanted to add that there isnt really a use for ram above 800mhz because only intel i7 cpus can actually use all the bandwidth if your stuck on an old FSB machine than you cant address more than 10Gbs worth of memory bandwidth. 800mhz ram has around 14Gbs memory bandwidth so that is just a little i wanted to tell ya.