Right so, no issues at all with the illegitimate ram.
No errors, no hangups, no crashes with XMP enabled on a MSI Z97 Guard Pro motherboard. Uptime has been stellar, interrupted only when I need to swap out expansion cards or to pilfer the processor to test other motherboards.
At this point I'd say DDR3 is such a mature technology that it doesn't matter what you get, so long as it passes a full memtest with XMP.
I run a full memtest every few months on my hypervisors and none of the thirty or so modules that I have shown degradation in the last year, from the alixexpress ram, to this stuff, to Corsair's Vengeance.
For the curious, the only issues I've had with running DDR3 era hardware in a 24/7 homelab environment is that the network adapters fail intermittently.
No errors, no hangups, no crashes with XMP enabled on a MSI Z97 Guard Pro motherboard. Uptime has been stellar, interrupted only when I need to swap out expansion cards or to pilfer the processor to test other motherboards.
At this point I'd say DDR3 is such a mature technology that it doesn't matter what you get, so long as it passes a full memtest with XMP.
I run a full memtest every few months on my hypervisors and none of the thirty or so modules that I have shown degradation in the last year, from the alixexpress ram, to this stuff, to Corsair's Vengeance.
For the curious, the only issues I've had with running DDR3 era hardware in a 24/7 homelab environment is that the network adapters fail intermittently.