Hello,
I recently bought an extra set of RAM ( 2x2gb Corsair Dominator 8500 1066) to upgrade my current to 6gb ( original 2gb are of same dominator)...
I actually had 4 gb installed but took two out to make room for the new 2gb sticks.
Now the originals were clocked at 1081 and running perfectly fine, so i removed two sticks and placed the new ones in slots 1 and 3 respectively so the banks were matched, now it all seems fine in the bios etc and it was clocked @ 1081 so i booted to vista 64 and it just locked so i thought hmm strange so gave XP 64 a try which was fine for a few minutes but once i started running any thing it just shut down the machine so i clocked the ram down to 900 as i can only go from 900 to 1081 as my cpu is clocked @3.6.
My borad is a rampage formula x48
cpu - q9450
psu - corsair 650w
gpu - 3870x2
there is a physx ppu in there also
and about 4 cooling fans of varied size
3x hdds
Dvd
I tried upping the voltage to about 2.13 which did not help at all....
could it be that i cant have it running at 1066 and above with that amount in?
admittedly i have not set it to 1066 as that would mean having to clock my cpu down which i dont want to do, i am not sure if there is a way of keeping the cpu at this level and clocking the RAM independently!!!
could it be a power issue?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
I recently bought an extra set of RAM ( 2x2gb Corsair Dominator 8500 1066) to upgrade my current to 6gb ( original 2gb are of same dominator)...
I actually had 4 gb installed but took two out to make room for the new 2gb sticks.
Now the originals were clocked at 1081 and running perfectly fine, so i removed two sticks and placed the new ones in slots 1 and 3 respectively so the banks were matched, now it all seems fine in the bios etc and it was clocked @ 1081 so i booted to vista 64 and it just locked so i thought hmm strange so gave XP 64 a try which was fine for a few minutes but once i started running any thing it just shut down the machine so i clocked the ram down to 900 as i can only go from 900 to 1081 as my cpu is clocked @3.6.
My borad is a rampage formula x48
cpu - q9450
psu - corsair 650w
gpu - 3870x2
there is a physx ppu in there also
and about 4 cooling fans of varied size
3x hdds
Dvd
I tried upping the voltage to about 2.13 which did not help at all....
could it be that i cant have it running at 1066 and above with that amount in?
admittedly i have not set it to 1066 as that would mean having to clock my cpu down which i dont want to do, i am not sure if there is a way of keeping the cpu at this level and clocking the RAM independently!!!
could it be a power issue?
any help would be greatly appreciated.