Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this for my file server, so performance wasn't a real big issue. 16gb is a little overkill, but for the price, I couldn't say no. I think it cost me less than $90 for the 16gb of ram. I would have been happy with 8. I inserted the ram in, booted up and haven't had any issues for over a month.

Upgrade memory on a Dell OptiPlex 980. Worked like a champ

Easy plug and play setup, couldn't ask for much more.

When I put all four of the RAM sticks in, I was a bit disappointed that the computer wouldn't start up (any four, so it wasn't a broken stick, it's just that the motherboard apparently couldn't handle four of them at once). So I had to use an old 2GB for the last slot, to get 14GB in all of memory. Now more recently (just two days ago), I realized I was getting memory errors, and found one of the sticks was failing. So, I tried the extra memory stick, and it turns out that one had apparently degraded to where it caused errors too. So now I'm down to 11GB of memory (after adding an old 1GB to replace the just-failed 4GB) I'm seeing if I can send them in for replacement now, (it appears that I'll be able to), but it will be somewhat of a hassle since other people have said you have to send them all back as a pack. (so until then I'll only have like 3GB of memory to use) Finally, I suppose it is possible the failure involved some sort of motherboard<>memory-stick incompatibility. I don't see why there would be one, as I used the recommended configurations, but they weren't on each others' official compatibility list, so it's possible they somehow conflict with each other in design as opposed to just hardware malfunction/failure.

PC would not boot, put in some old RAM as a test and it fired right up. Process of elimination led me to one of the four new sticks being dead. Pros: -Cheap -Slimish profile Cons: -Does not detect as 1600 MHz by mobo, must force it to run that speed -Quality control -Cannot RMA the bad stick, must ship whole package leaving my new rig a paper weight.