Possible ram problem

virdee2 · 14 Oct 2013 at 23:21

New rig built as in sig and all delighted with windows performing!

Get 10 minutes in to a game and the game will just crash and cut to windows.

Every game I play doesn't this at varying times, even old games like battlefield 2.

Tested the ram and it works fine with one stick (either one) but hats both together.

Could I be running wrong timing on them or something? ATM it's only running at 1333mhz anyway and I haven't over locked anything yet.

Please help me

virdee2 · 14 Oct 2013 at 23:32

So not a ram issue?

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 00:11

Event viewer says kernel-power... Not sure what that means but sounds like core to me?

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 00:38

Thanks guys, increases the voltage a fair amount and now seems stable in games although I'll give it proper go tomorrow for a while to test it out

So simple but greatly appreciate!

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:11

Hey guys, thought I sorted it but it's not right. Can't get my ram to clock to 2400mhz stable... What am I missing? Do I literally have to add more CPU volts you think? I have manually set the ram volts and times as on the ram itself

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:33

I believe so. Just checked in CPU-z and it does give an xmp-2400 timing table. If I enable the profile should it just then adjust itself?

Sorry never had such able memory before lol

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:38

Just tried it and CPU-z still only showing 1600mhz...

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:44

f6 which is the latest I think... I purposely did look for the latest bios

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:44

could it be linked to the cpu clock? meaning I have to overclock the cpu to get memory to match?

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 23:59

I tried a few things and turned out over locking the CPU to 4.6 actually made the ram go up but still nowhere near 2400mhz and my CPU runs hot and loud lol

virdee2 · 17 Oct 2013 at 19:10

Update for those kind enough to have helped me

I have managed to set timing and have ram at its 24000mhz speed and play some games but I'm concerned that when I ran pcmark my score dropped from 7000 to 1000... Trying for the second time now just in case it's a blip but is there a reasonable explanation for that?

Thanks for the help again

virdee2 · 17 Oct 2013 at 22:42

i'm giving up... 16000mhz is the best stable speed I can manage

virdee2 · 17 Oct 2013 at 23:45

1600mhz without cpu overclockin. And 18xx with overclocking at 4.4ghz. Doesn't make any sense to me lol

virdee2 · 18 Oct 2013 at 11:46

last I looked it was set to 100 as that's how I overclocked the cpu but i'll check tonight. thanks again for the continued help

virdee2 · 18 Oct 2013 at 11:46

vonex said:
set VCCIN voltage to 1.86-1.9, VRING voltage 1.25v, SA voltage to 0.200v , IOA 0.200v, IOD0.200v

i'll try this too thank you

virdee2 · 18 Oct 2013 at 14:05

I have had the same problem when not overclocked as I did initially try just to set the ram up without oc the cpu but then I found that the xmp increases when I overclock so just kept the oc from then on lol