Ram freezing problems

Daphatboy

Daphatboy

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Hi guys,

I recently bought a new motherboard and I found my RAM was running at 1333Mhz and I wanted to boost it up to atleast 1600Mhz.

But when I tried just changing the speed my computer freezes and I have to restart.

Is this because my voltage is too low?

If so what is the best way of getting my memory stable? (and potentially overclocking and trimming the timings down)


Any help is welcome :)
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Daphatboy said:
Will simply raising the voltage solve me problem?
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Ok, potentally a silly question - it is 1600 RAM isnt it?


Not exactly... Run the RAM at its stated voltage (probably 1.5 or 1.65) with its stated timings (probably 999 24). Mine was way more stable with 2T rather than 1T aswell.

If you are getting instability issues try bumping the CPU-NB voltage a little..
 
Ok after a small amount of googling I understand some stuff about memory timing ;)

I may have solved the freezing problem by raising the voltage slightly, but after running memtest it came up with a few errors so I think im going to raise the voltage up to 1.6/1.65V.
 
Daphatboy said:
Ok after a small amount of googling I understand some stuff about memory timing ;)

I may have solved the freezing problem by raising the voltage slightly, but after running memtest it came up with a few errors so I think im going to raise the voltage up to 1.6/1.65V.
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Sorry mate,

I only really come on here when skiving in work! :cool:

Im sure google has already answered you but from the little i understand on the subject 2T is better for more than 2 sticks of RAM as it puts less stress on the memory controller hence why my system is much happier with 2T due to my 2x2gb and 2x4gb sticks.


EDIT: im also pretty sure you should only run the sticks at their rated voltage. Try increrasing the CPU-NB rather than the actual ram voltage.
 
I have another question about my ram that is annoying me.

I am trying to run the ram at 1600Mhz but every time I set it in the BIOS it only loads 4GB of it. When the BIOS loads is shows that only 4GB is being used, and Windows replicates this in the system details.

It does not matter what voltage I use it never uses both sticks!

Any ideas?
 
Run CPUZ and see what that tells you about your RAM.

I assume you aren't using more than 4gb RAM on a 32bit OS?
 
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Im using 8gb of ram on windows home premium 64bit

Im not sure if this is related but I recently updated my BIOS to the latest, is it worth clearing the CMOS just to try the old one?
 
Ok so It doesnt matter which slots the RAM is in, as soon as I bump it up to 1600 it isnt happy, it doesn't pass memtest86 and BSODs.

Any ideas? Would this problem be related to the RAM itself, or the memory controller not handling it?
 
some ram is only happy with 1.65v going through it, dont whatever you do push it past that regardless of a earlier post or you could fry you ram and mobo.

I assume your over clocking ur processor if so ram usually steps in line with the blcks on over clocking
x6 x8 x10 margins usually
so if you have a bclk of 200 you ram multipier needs to be set at 8
blck x ram multiplier = ram ghz
so 200 x 8 = 1600
if you understand that :-)
 
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