BSODs in Vista 64 - some questions re mem testing

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Hi guys!

Made a bootable CD of memtest and am having numerous errors on all 4 sticks of my Crucial Ballistix 8500 RAM. I recently upgraded the CPU and have had nothing but problems (BSODs in Windows/games) which werent present before I upgraded the CPU from a E6600. I originally thought it was the CPU. But after running memtest it seems every stick is now producing errors. I just wanted to ask:

1. Could errors in memtest be caused by bad timings/voltage/freq of RAM?
2. Could errors be caused by heat?

I ask because I have overclocked my E7400 to 3.02 Ghz (9x334). And the RAM has been manually set at 1068Mhz. I want to know if these errors I am receiving are genuine or due to overclocking? Surely running the ram 2mhz faster than it is specced at should be OK?! I guess it is possible that during the upgrade (where I had to take my Sugo to bits) static could have killed the RAM as I wasnt particularly careful where I put the sticks.

Many thanks!

Tom
 
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It's cool man - the last stick to test reports fine after 4 1/2 hours so the other 3 are definately bodged as they all individually reported errors within minutes :( To test this I loaded up a game of company of heroes for an hour or so using just one stick and although it took a lot longer to load than I'm used to...NO BSODs!

Will order 4GB of the OCZ Gold off here. £38 is a steal!!

Cheers!

Tom
 
Does your bios display the actual ramspeed including the "overclock" factor then? My board always offers 533/668/800 etc regardless of the overclock, so you have to work out the real ram speed either with a bit of math, or checked with cpu-z

I would boot up with that 1 working stick and check to see if its really being clocked at 1068.

Does the Crucial need more volts, a lot of OCZ ram needs 1.9-2.1v for stability at high clock speeds, perhaps your crucial just needs a bit more volts to be stable.
 
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