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Firms Get Away with Selling Untested DRAM
peppytech75 writes "Melanie Hollands in IT Manager's Journal reports that 'In recent months, some Asian DRAM memory manufacturers have been getting away with selling untested ("UTT") DRAMs. Disturbingly, the practice seems to be getting traction at the lower portion of the module business. This is being done mostly by Taiwanese DRAM makers, who are undercutting the tier-1 guys by selling untested and unmarked parts.' What's the solution here? Or is there an actual solution to what amounts to pirate companies issuing counterfeit parts?" (IT Manager's Journal, like Slashdot, is part of OSTG.)
It's because having to reboot your Windows box every day means that it never gets the chance to use more than 640K of the installed memory.
That is only a problem if you insist on using mail-order shops. If you have a local mom-n-pop, it'll take you 5 minutes to show them the RAM is bad.
This could be a good way for b&m to compete with mail order.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
This is the tip of an ice berg
Ive known some board/system makers to real really cut corners, shaving 70cents there, 40cents there in transistors or voltage regulators that should be in X spec, but are replaced by Y spec cheap shits which have much lower tollerences and higher failure rates. Just to save a few dollars here and there to rip of customers (ie business customers)
If in 1940 they lived in tin raket old sheds or bamboo houses, do you really think they have hardcore german attitude to make goods that last 100 years? When they barely live 40.
Just hope that 747 isnt using any of that ram in its guidance systems.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.