I had two 2GB chips dead right out of the bag that I was going to put into my iMac Intel Core 2 Duo machine. I put them in and got the beeping warning indicating bad ram. I looked on the chips, read Elpida, and began investigating and found your articles. First time in 18 years of Mac ownership that I ever had any bad ram.

Coincidence, or not, last week one of the two modules in a Kingston DDR3 ValueRam 2 x 2048 MB dual channel kit was D.O.A.

The kit had Elpida chips. I'm curious about the replacement.

Kingstons normal customer service......ha what a joke , Years ago i paid around $200.00 for fastest cas 2 HyperX for my 875p.....but one stick keep having errors. Kingston response was to send them both sticks and they would replace them with cheaper cas 3 modules worth about half the price.

As far as i know Kingston has quite a few kits using the Elpida chips and not only at the high end so they are a lot more exposed then Corsair or OCZ.