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Long story made short, one of my G.Skill PC2-6400 DIMMs (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ) always seems want to die on me despite never being pushed hard and have sufficient cooling. The original pair 2x1GB pair that I got back a while ago for almost $300 still works fine. It is the second pair that has given me all of the grief, despite moving to two different motherboards and going through the hassle of three different RMAs.

Anyway, I was wondering if it is worthwhile to simply get a single 2GB or 1GB DDR2 DIMM from another manufacturer?

If that is the case, then what DIMM(s) should I get?

It's hard to go wrong with Crucial or Corsair.

Just try to avoid their "Value Ram".

I've had so-so results mixing and matching pairs, but I've never had anything but disaster trying to mix different OEMs in a single pair.

To clarify: I have two 1GB sticks of G.Skill and two 1GB sticks of Mushkin, and when I put one of each in channel A and one of each in channel B, so G.Skill with G.Skill and Mushkin with Mushkin, everything is great. If I shuffle so that it's Mush/GS/GS/Mush, things get fiddly, but work.

Running a single stick of Mush and a single stick of GSk, I usually get failures in memory tests.