Is my ram dying?

a66as · 27 Nov 2017 at 21:05

I've had these ram sticks since mid September and my pc had been working fine till today. Games were been a bit funny (random 25 fps in menu with lots of stuttering) and pc felt a bit slow as couple of games shut down when I tabbed out.

I then got a bsod with stop code memory management. These are my specs

R7 1800x
Crosshair 6 hero (latest official bios)
Gskill trident z rgb (running at stock 2133)
1080ti

Do I need to rma my ram or could it be another problem?

mickyflinn · 27 Nov 2017 at 21:13

You could run mem test to see if brings up any errors also check the ram values and voltage are correct in the bios.

http://www.memtest.org/

a66as · 27 Nov 2017 at 23:22

Did a windows memory diagnostics test but it found no errors, going to do memtest next. Could this be caused by a dodgy driver, update or something else?

a66as · 28 Nov 2017 at 09:21

Had this running overnight but for some reason my monitor wouldn't switch back on (kept saying no signal) so i'm going to run it tommorow for several hours with my monitor on so i can see the results.

a66as · 30 Nov 2017 at 07:17

Well i ran memtest86 for 18 hours (5 passes of 13 tests) and it came up with zero errors, i'm guessing that blue screen was due to another problem then?

new boy · 30 Nov 2017 at 09:14

Run with half the ram pulled out, if it blue screens, run with the other half, if it still blue screens then it's not the ram

Edit - did it happen just once? If so, then I wouldnt worry about it unless it happens again

a66as · 30 Nov 2017 at 10:51

It only blue screened once, hasnt happened since and i played 2 hours of destiny 2 this morning. although i did get a bit of stuttering but others have had similar experiences so thats probably down to the game.