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After weeks of trying to find out whats causing my stutter in games etc.
Something i shouldve done firstly, but i have a result!

I tested each stick for 5 passes, they came out fine.
Tested all 4 together and memtest just completly crashed..

So i booted up windows with 3 sticks and tested out COD4, the stutter seemed to have gone. Although i could be wrong, ill test more tonight
So overnight i left 3 sticks in to test, it came out with 15 errors over 6 hours. Ive tried different sticks n different slots etc also.
At the moment i have a test runing at home with 2 sticks, this should be about 9 hours id say.
Is there any reason why 4 sticks are failing in memtest so badly? As my system still runs with 4 in, it just seems unstable or out of sync.

If the test comes out fine when i get home i think im gonna try RMA them tonight..
 
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Nope didnt touch the NB voltage, everything is at stock atm.
I'll also try this, i may have already tried this though, not combined with memtest though.
Although if i had to slacken my timings lower that stated on the packet, is this something i can RMA for?

Also, i did error on 3 sticks, could the voltage tweak help this?

Edit: Oh my bad it is memtest86+, And they are paired up correctly in dual mode :)
 
Right i've just got home, my 2 sticks passed memtest over 9 hours.
I tried upping my NB voltage, in increments of 2 ..1.25>1.51 and my RAM from 1.6>2.1 in increments also. But this didnt work.

I'm just going to check my other 2 sticks for a few pass's and ill try what yellowbeard suggested, by lowering my ram freq.
 
my memory at stock is rated 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 1.8v's
I've dropped it back to 1.9, i just put it higher to test etc

Tried slackening the timings to 10-10-10-26 etc + and lowering my freq, my system doesnt even boot :/

also tried at the stock rated settings, doesnt boot :)
 
volts - 1.8
Nb - 1.51
feq - 1066
9-9-9-24, doesnt boot.

Tried with 8-8-8-21, instead and it does, but memtest still is unstable. I'm kinda lost now..
 
Right when memtests crashes, it does for a slight second say "relocated" on the same row as Pattern: ...could this possibly be anything..

Then my computer restarts :/
 
Right, i can confirm the other sticks passed memtest over another 9 hours, so i can pretty much say my memory is fine now.

2 sticks are fine.
3 sticks run with but with errors.
4 sticks completely crash.

I've upped the volts on neccesary parts, to compensate etc and this hasn't worked either.
I recon this is a good enough reason to take my motherboard back, unless someone's got ay other ideas before i do so.

Thanks for all your help etc.
So relieved i can get the problem sorted out now :D
 
Well i got my PSU about 2 months ago from Overclockers.
A B-grade one though :rolleyes:

My could try my GF's computer but its a crappy generic 300w one out of a compaq, and its god knows how old now. Doubt it would power my system to test for stability.
I havn't got a multimeter either, not in the position atm to buy one either.

My CPU is lapped but i doubt thats the problem, as i'd see a hell of a lot more errors right?

Either way im gona take it back tonight and let them deal with it..sick to death of it now.
They don't sell that this model mobo anymore, so hopefully they may give me a credit note of a Whoooole £205's. :D

i'm 100% sure it isnt my ram now as i tested with both 2gb kits on L4d / tf2 and cod4 for a while. Seems stable.
 
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