Faulty ram/motherboard?

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Evening all, I posted earlier about faulty ram.

Spent the day trying to figure this out. But no avail.

I've spent all day using memtest86 testing ram.

I purchased the following from overclockers a couple days ago:

2 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-35200C19 4400MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G440C9K)
Gigabyte z490 aorus elite ac mobo
I9-10850k

How likely is it that all 4 ram sticks have errors?

Could it be a motherboard fault or cpu fault?

I get that occasionally 1 stick of ram might be faulty, but all 4? What are the chances?

I noticed that when applying xmp profile the voltage specs are 1.45v however the mono bios was report 1.44. So I manually set 1.45 and this still hasn't worked.

Never in my life have I had all 4 new sticks fail on me?

Could this be a cpu or motherboard fault.?

The memtest put out 17,543 errors in 45 seconds and then aborted the test.

https://ibb.co/J5h3M6g

I did a test earlier and it threw out over 10,000 errors.

Its usually fails in test 6

Has anyone else experienced a problem like this. Surely it can't be all ram sticks failing?
Im more leaning to it being a motherboard issue or cpu....

Thanks for anyone's input. And thanks to people that have helped me earlier.

Also if anyone can explain to me how to attach an image that would be great. I have no clue. Thanks.
 
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4400mhz is a lot to ask from memory especially since the platform only officially supports 3200mhz, you might be able to get 4400mhz working but may require some tweeking alternatively you could try dropping the speed to around 4000mhz which should be easier On the memory controller.

but then why would is state that its compatible with the motherboard. ive checked the motherboards site and clearly states that the model number is compatible (PVS416G440C9K)

there is an xmp profile for slower speed, but that fails to work either.
 
It might just be down to the CPU memory controller quality, I'd still contact gigabyte a see what they have to say about since it is indeed on their QVL.

ive contacted overclockers and asked for an rma. if the cpu cant handle the speed, ill get some slower tighter timed/latency memory instead
 
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