Advice please

xcalibre · 4 Jun 2008 at 15:30

I've bought a MSI Platinum P35 motherboard a while back and recently purchased a Q9450 and BFG 9800GX2 as well. I currently use some cheap RAM with the setup. For some reason my games stop responding after a while and sometimes when I open programs they crash as well. I've ran the Nvidia Stability test and it bomb out after a minute, gave a read, write error. Now I think it's the crappy RAM that's causing the problem, because the temps look fine.

Right so I'm thinking of getting some memory and also a good cpu cooler. Ideally 2x2gb modules. Which modules and cooler do you guys suggest, keeping in mind it has to fit on the MSI Platinum board.

Thanks in advance

icey_haj · 4 Jun 2008 at 16:34

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...WaterCooled Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2FXT11504GK)

Fast stuff, and welcome to the forums

Janesy B · 4 Jun 2008 at 16:35

MSI's dont play well with quads, have you investigated this as a possible explaination?

xcalibre · 4 Jun 2008 at 16:49

I flashed the BIOS with the latest firmware, because I initially though it might be that the motherboard is not fully compatible with the new processor. On MSI's website it states that the Q9450 is supported with the latest BIOS update so hopefully it's not that.

Thanks Icey_haj, those modules looks potent. Unfortunately there's not a lot of space between the graphic card and RAM, so it might be to big. I was looking at the Crucial Billistix ram but just want to know if they are supported by the motherboard

adam2975 · 4 Jun 2008 at 16:59

you could use the memory checker on their site and then buy from OCUK

Pilky01 · 4 Jun 2008 at 17:41

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-019-GS

That is very good ram, and for the heatsink i would get a tuniq tower, true 120 extreme, or wait for the artic cooling freezer extreme.

RJC · 4 Jun 2008 at 17:42

Try running mem test to double check your RAM.

xcalibre · 5 Jun 2008 at 09:17

Yes I should probably make sure it is the RAM, thanks RJC.