Its not stable

[kenstheman]

Hi, everyone

I have just built a new computer consisting of:

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
BFG GeForce 7950 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM X2
Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

bios settings
Vdimm +0.3 (stock volts for the ram)
fsb, chipset +0.1V
ram 4-4-4-12 800MHz (stock)


The system is not stable when running Orthos, it only lasts a matter of seconds. If I reduce the ram speed, the system is a little bit more stable (lasts 10min in orthos).
Furthermore, aplications crash with "failed to initialize" or "access violation" errors.

Also memtest86 fails straight away at stock speeds, churning out 1000s of errors.

This leads me to believe the ram is the problem.

But I want to be absolutely sure before rma'ing it. So could someone tell me if anything else could cause these problems.

Before you ask, i have no compatible computer to test the ram in.

I was thinking of trying some other ram in the new computer but the only ram I have is some older ddr pc 2700 stuff, is this compatible with the ds3?


Thanks for your help

Ken

 

[Trox]

You need to underclock your CPU by lowering the multy, so it rules out that as a problem, then set up the memory to run at its stated speed.

Run memtest , if it picks up errors yir memory is screwed up, RMA

 

[kenstheman]

Thanks Trox

I'll give that a try

 

[kenstheman]

Tried underclocking the processor and I get the same results with the ram, so its rma time!!

I am getting refunded, so I can get another make.

So should I risk getting another Geil set or should I go for the more expensive Cellshock, team Xtreem or G.skill?

 

[Dureth]

whooooa hang on. Run a memtest of the RAM first, just because its failing doesn't mean its the RAM. Could be the motherboard memory controller or anything.

 

[TheNuju]

whooooa hang on. Run a memtest of the RAM first, just because its failing doesn't mean its the RAM. Could be the motherboard memory controller or anything.

He allready has, read the posts ....