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tomw92

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Hi guys,

trying to see what is the cause of my bsod and Speccy is reporting my RAM to be at this speed. Is this right?

I haven't overclocked anything

Motherboard: Asus M4a785td-v evo
CPU: Phenom II x4 955
RAM: G.Skill F3-12800CL9 (667MHz) 2GB x3


At first I thought it was my year old SSD however sometimes the system doesn't bsod it just freezes and the display goes haywire!

Other times it will just reboot.

I've done a memtest and everything seems to be good there.

Thanks,

Tom
 
Dowload CPU-Z, run it, click on the Memory tab and double the speed it says.

That'll be what speed your RAM is running at.

FYI 3 sticks of RAM isn't ideal in a dual channel system.
 
Surveyor said:
Dowload CPU-Z, run it, click on the Memory tab and double the speed it says.

That'll be what speed your RAM is running at.

FYI 3 sticks of RAM isn't ideal in a dual channel system.
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I do have another (was 8gb) but I took it out as I thought it was causing the bsods lol.




Which one will it be?
 
Surveyor said:
669.6MHz x 2.
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Cheers, sorry for being a bit dumb, I know little about ram!


I have two of these kits:

G.SKILL RipJaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Now 669.6*2=1339.2MHz, could this be the reason why I'm crashing so much?

If so, how could I fix it?


EDIT: also found these stats from the manufacturer:

Memory
– 4 x DIMM. Max 16GB
DDR3 1800(O.C.)/1600(O.C.)/ 1333 / 1066 un-buffered ECC/Non-ECC memory

Don't know if that helps?
 
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Now 669.6*2=1339.2MHz, could this be the reason why I'm crashing so much?
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I doubt it.

The RAM is running below its rated speed which shouldn't cause issues.

The bus speed/NB frequency (whatever it is with AMD) is marginally overclocked but less than 0.5% which again shouldn't be an issue.

Has it only just started BSODing?

Did you change anything shortly before the BSODs started?

Do you have the BSOD code?
 
It's been doing it for a couple of weeks. No hardware changes. Got so fed up that I reinstalled Windows - which hasn't helped.

Checked all cables to ensure they are correctly inserted, re-seated everything and checked drivers.




ntoskrnl.exe seems to be the cause of all of them.
 
Can't say that I'm an expert in this area or AMD systems

Your RAM appears to be basically running as it should but that doesn't mean there isn't a fault somewhere but you're on your second set and still getting BSODs.

Perhaps you'll get more joy if the thread is moved to General Hardware where it'll get more attention.

I'll ask for it to be moved.
 
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