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Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating 223

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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Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating

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  • CHEATING!?! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @05:33PM (#15116765)
    Oh, my, what ever will we do? Maybe the memory manufacturers should divorce and marry other companies.
     
    In other words, set their affairs in proper order...
  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @05:33PM (#15116766)
    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.
  • No way (Score:5, Funny)

    by dg41 ( 743918 ) on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @05:35PM (#15116780)
    No way, there can't be anyone making dishonest or cheap mem... PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
  • Re:No way (Score:5, Funny)

    by The Real Nem ( 793299 ) on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @05:48PM (#15116907) Homepage
    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".
  • by Apotekaren ( 904220 ) on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @07:12PM (#15117465)
    You're having problems with the megaHURTS?
  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @07:53PM (#15117652)
    You're fired.

    See me in my office in 10 minutes after you clear out your desk.

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