Ram choice help

Matticus88 · 1 May 2014 at 15:47

I want to get new ram as i believe the ram i have is the cause of my frequent graphics driver crashes, as it is one thing i haven't changed in my computer and i'm still getting TDR crashes..

Mobo is a 970a-ds3p gigabyte site states;

4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules

From what i understand, 1.5V isn't a huge amount so if i bought a high MHz set, the voltage limit wouldn't allow the full usage of the MHz?

I'm looking to spend Max £80

snips86x · 1 May 2014 at 15:49

What's the rest of your spec?
Are you overclocking?
Have you updated or rest the BIOS?
Run memtest?

ukbilleh · 1 May 2014 at 22:20

graphics driver crashes would probably indicate something other than the ram. I would investigate if your gpu is stable, powered sufficiently, cooled well and finally running on non corrupted non conflicting new drivers.

Have you run memtest86 on your ram to check if it is also at fault?

Matticus88 · 2 May 2014 at 13:00

I've asked for suggestions on new RAM. Thats what i want. I've been over this TDR crash a hundred times on multiple forums, I've installed, reinstalled, removed, rebooted, installed graphics drivers hundreds of times.

I have followed others instructions on testing all parts of my computer several times and nothing appears to be wrong, which is clearly not right.

I've changed Motherboard, Graphics Card, CPU & PSU and problem still happens. The problem which only began after i last changed my RAM.

stuie · 2 May 2014 at 13:10

What cpu cooler do you have as that often restricts what ram you can get

snips86x · 2 May 2014 at 13:13

Matticus88 said:
I've asked for suggestions on new RAM. Thats what i want. I've been over this TDR crash a hundred times on multiple forums, I've installed, reinstalled, removed, rebooted, installed graphics drivers hundreds of times.

I have followed others instructions on testing all parts of my computer several times and nothing appears to be wrong, which is clearly not right.

I've changed Motherboard, Graphics Card, CPU & PSU and problem still happens. The problem which only began after i last changed my RAM.

Maybe so, but if you have not run MEMTEST to work out if your RAM is actually the cause, they you will be no better off. You'll have an issue which you cannot fix and RAM you cannot use.

Run Memtest to determine if your RAM is indeed faulty. If you are still not willing to take advise, any of this RAM will be fine:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=8&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=1387