Soldato
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Ok, I have an i7-8700 (non-k) on a Gigabyte B360-d3h motherboard. Non-k processor and a B360 board so no overclocking.
Up until this afternoon I was running a Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666Mhz 2*8GB kit with its settings set by XMP in the BIOS. This has run stable without issues for a couple of months.
This afternoon I added another identical kit giving me a total of 32GB. At first all seemed fine, everything looked ok in the BIOS and the system booted up into Windows 10 with the memory at 2666Mhz. But it soon became apparent that something was off, things became unstable and there were various application crashes.
Running Windows Memory Diagnostic (well it was on the system so I tried it before making a memtest86 stick) it threw errors on the first pass. Given that I was now using four dimms I went into the BIOS and turned off XMP. This dropped the memory speed down to 2133MHz and the memory has now passed a pass at that speed with no errors.
So my question is do i need to tweak some settings in the BIOS to get the memory to run at full capacity with four dimms or do I have to accept a drop in speed as a side effect of having 4 dimms installed instead of 2? Of is it something is faulty here?
(32GB for running VMs for work, I know it would be overkill for gaming).
Up until this afternoon I was running a Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666Mhz 2*8GB kit with its settings set by XMP in the BIOS. This has run stable without issues for a couple of months.
This afternoon I added another identical kit giving me a total of 32GB. At first all seemed fine, everything looked ok in the BIOS and the system booted up into Windows 10 with the memory at 2666Mhz. But it soon became apparent that something was off, things became unstable and there were various application crashes.
Running Windows Memory Diagnostic (well it was on the system so I tried it before making a memtest86 stick) it threw errors on the first pass. Given that I was now using four dimms I went into the BIOS and turned off XMP. This dropped the memory speed down to 2133MHz and the memory has now passed a pass at that speed with no errors.
So my question is do i need to tweak some settings in the BIOS to get the memory to run at full capacity with four dimms or do I have to accept a drop in speed as a side effect of having 4 dimms installed instead of 2? Of is it something is faulty here?
(32GB for running VMs for work, I know it would be overkill for gaming).
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