Performance memory manufacturer Corsair has revealed an abnormally high failure rate amongst Elpida MNH-E Hyper DDR3 ICs featured in DDR3-1866 and DDR3-2000 kits from many of today’s biggest names in performance DRAM.

We have seen a number of reports across various forums about failures of modules (from Corsair as well as from other memory manufacturers) built with Elpida “Hyper” RAMs. Through lab testing, we have now been able to reproduce similar failures. We are continuing to test to determine the cause of these failures. Note that although a relatively small percentage of “Hyper” ICs appear to be affected, the rate of failure is not acceptable to Corsair or to our customers.

Existing owners of the afflicted Corsair products (TW3X4G1600C6GTF, TR3X6G1866C7GTF, TR3X6G2000C8GTF, TR3X3G2000C7GTF, and TR3X6G2000C7GTF kits) are advised to continue using their memory as usual. In the interim, Corsair is recalling stocks of these products from retailers until the trouble is resolved.

It is not yet known how other manufacturers will respond to this issue, but we can confirm that Elpida Hyper ICs are present in OCZ, G.SKILL and Kingston modules. As an alternative, DDR3 manufacturers can continue DDR3-2000 production with Micron D9GTR and Samsung HCF0 chips.

UPDATE 7/10/2009, 1:04 PM: Hexus.net has flagged Corsair down to learn more about the Hyper issues in a short interview.