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Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the please-don't-look-at-the-man-behind-the-curtain dept.

Mark Brown writes "Tom's Hardware is live-testing DDR2 memory products in order to determine whether memory manufacturers submit cherry-picked products for reviews. 'GeIL DDR2-667 that was claimed to be purchased performed worse than the review samples they got: 471 MHz for the review samples vs. 421 MHz for the retail memory.'"

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  1. You can't trust reviewers (or even specs) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never trust specs on any product I buy. For example, if I buy a hard drive the first thing I do is open it up, shake all the bits out it and count them. If they don't add up to exactly what is listed in the spec, I return it.

  2. No way by dg41 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No way, there can't be anyone making dishonest or cheap mem... PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

    1. Re:No way by The+Real+Nem · · Score: 5, Funny

      ARTHUR: There! Look!
      BEDEVERE: What does it say?
      GALAHAD: What language is this?
      BEDEVERE: Brother Maynard, you are a scholar.
      BROTHER MAYNARD: It is Aramaic!
      GALAHAD: Of course. dg41 of Aramathea!
      ALL: Of course.
      ARTHUR: What does it say?
      BROTHER MAYNARD: It reads ... "No way by dg41 (743918) on Wednesday April 12, @02:35PM (#15116780)"
      *EXCITEMENT*
      "No way, there can't be anyone making dishonest or cheap mem... PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"
      ARTHUR: What?
      BROTHER MAYNARD: "The PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA..."
      BEDEVERE: What's that?
      BROTHER MAYNARD: His computer must have crashed while typing it.
      BEDEVERE: Oh, come on.
      BROTHER MAYNARD: That's what it says.
      ARTHUR: But if his computer was crashing, he wouldn't bother to type "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". It would just crash.
      BROTHER MAYNARD: It's down there typed on slashdot.
      GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating.
      ARTHUR: Shut up. Is that all it says?
      BROTHER MAYNARD: That's all. "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA".
      ARTHUR: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA".