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 :)
(specs in my sig)
 
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.
 
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?
 
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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?
 
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