G skill trident Z

[Kobs]

One of my ram stick just died, yesterday it was working fine and tonight I sit at my comp and I had to fiddle for a while to find out that one of the ram sticks was dead.
It's a 16 gig stick of a pair

Question is is this normal, I never had a single stick die on me loll

[Carlsberg]

A single stick faulty I would believe easier. Both sticks dying would give me more questions.

[Kobs]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

A single stick faulty I would believe easier. Both sticks dying would give me more questions.

Still kind of funny that it died while the comp was off or at least it looks like it did lol

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Any electronics could potentially die at any time really. It's often very rare that you would have find out the WHY it happened.

However since it is a kit, be prepared to send both sticks of RAM back to GSkill if doing a Warranty RMA

[Tonepoet]

I had a pair of teamgroup R.A.M. sticks die on me, but that's because I was being stupid, left my case open and accidentally subjected it a spill that killed them and my graphics card. (I had the case open 'cause I lost the screws to the top.)

I never experienced the death of R.A.M. sticks either otherwise. Luckily, 16 gigabyte kits of R.A.M. can be pretty cheap depending on the variety right now, and you might just want to upgrade to 32 these days anyway.

[Illusion of Progress]

That depends on what you mean by "normal"? The overwhelming majority of hardware works, so the normal state for any given part of hardware would be for it to work. Despite that, hardware failure isn't exceedingly abnormal, so no it's some impossibility that something failed.

I'm not sure what the formal failure rates are for certain parts, but my own impression is that RAM is one of the most common ones. I've personally never had RAM failure yet. I've had a bad graphics card or two (one just died a few years into life, the other was bad from the get-go), and I've had a motherboard issue (M2 port plus suspicions of others), and even a PSU issue (squeaky fan), but not yet have I had RAM failure. Despite my own experiences, based on impression, RAM seems to be one of the more common failure points.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Most RAM has lifetime warranties. G.Skill wont even require proof of purchase (they will request it, but will RMA regardless).

Their support staff (any time I have called) is USA based and typically has sub 5 minute waits, if any. Call them and RMA.

And to touch on the specific question - No, not normal. But also nothing to worry about.

[Illusion of Progress]

I don't know if I like lifetime warranties. Lifetime warranties apply as long as the product is in production. A lot of PC hardware has two or three year warranties. If you buy RAM and it stays in production longer than two or three years, you effectively have a longer warranty. If you buy at the tail end and it stops being producted a year or so after you buy it, you only get a year warranty.

Good to know if G.Skill has good support though. I have bought them the last two times I got RAM and haven't had to use it so I didn't know how good or not good they'd be and like most things, I've heard claims both ways.

[_I_]

most ram has lifetime warranty

whos 'lifetime' is kinda the question tho
fill out the rma form and see how they respond

for ram rma you normally need to return/exchange the kit
they may give back a similar spec'd product, not always exactly the same

[Salt]

2 sets of trident z died for me within a year. last of them failed within 1 month of manufacturing date lol.
i didnt know it at the time, but both of sets where GTZNC and unfortunately, got screwed by cheap IC's, which got stealth replaced by Gskill on some of them with garbage-tier spectek IC's. Pay premium price for trash quality, f them. they are supposed to be Sk hynix, they are not.

As ram "speed" doesnt really matter on 5800x3d, i replaced gskill with kingston cl16 3200, with slightly better timings than gskill and saw zero perfomance difference.