However, you could tell by the architecture of the sticks that it wasn't DDR3; therefore, I just went ahead and slapped the two sticks into my mobo and they work perfectly fine

One stick was dead out of the box

Amazon.com took good care of this issue, and overnighted me a replacement after I told them about the defective stick

The reason being is that it is common to receive a defective stick

This memory was recommended by Dell for my system as a gaming upgrade and previous reviews stated that these worked fine with the exception of those receiving bad sticks or had bad slots.

Heat spreaders help keep the sticks cool

I don't know if we got bad sticks, or what, but this memory didn't work in either of our computers.

I probably would have stuck with the Corsair sticks since my old sticks have been nothing but good to me for years, it would have been nice to have some more options

this score is low only because one stick was bad, other than that i would give rate them 5 stars.

I used to have a low clocked 1 gb overheating ram stick but this pair are cool and fast

I'm not sure how typical my defective stick was.

I'm sure these sticks are fine for some systems, but they were horrible for both my husbands and my computer.

They snapped into my motherboard quite nicely, although I didn't snap a stick down securly and it failed to get to POST

This memory was recommended by Dell for my system as a gaming upgrade and previous reviews stated that these worked fine with the exception of those receiving bad sticks or had bad slots.

I have a DDR2 MoBo, and these sticks have given me no problems at all

It turns out that 1 stick is good and the other is bad.

I returned the defective module(s) and have been running with the new ones without further incidents