I'm thinking the same thing. Take the chips off the heatsink, line them up verrry carefully on the pcb, put a heat gun to it and see if you can resolder those back on. Worst case, you're out some time and have a rather warm hand.
Of course they're being weaselly with their answers. Lifespan drops with increased heat and voltage, but who knows how long they would have lasted originally, or how well cooled your components are.
for reference, this is with 2.65 or 2.7v set in the BIOS iirc, and that ram is still running...
I used to say this a lot, and I guess it still applies... well, one pic is worth a thousand words really:
Last I checked, they still worked, and that's after being abused with 2.5-2.8v in benching sessions. Also, Crucial's warranty is great, thank god. I've never had an issue getting dead...
Indeed, sometimes that little setting that you normally overlook is the one that is holding back the system. I've had that happen all too many times.
Good to see you still around and kicking ass with memory, I remember when running 32M on DDR2 over 600mhz was awesome.. things have come a long...
More heat and higher power demand on a probably marginal voltage regulation circuit are two major issues working against you when going to higher voltage.. Try a fan on the area? :D
I was doing this for the longest time to keep my Ballistix cool: