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Strange RAM problem..

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Hey guys, I've got 6GB of DDR3 Corsair Dominator memory, and have had it for a few months now. I enabled the XMP to run it at 1600Mhz pretty much from the day i built this PC and all has been fine in absolutely everything i have done with it.

But the last two days, i have been playing Dragon age and been having frequent Blue screens sometimes within minutes of starting the game up and playing, where i wasn't having that before. I disabled the XMP and all seems to be fine now.

I'm really not sure what else to say, because like i said, even this game has been running fine till yesterday, i can't think of anything i could have done to start this.

Specs:

i7 920 @ Stock
Gigabyte UD5 EX58
6GB Corsair DDR3 Dominator
Two ATI 5850's

Any ideas? Seems a strange problem to have since everything runs fine without the XMP enabled.
 
CPU Temperatures were initially a concern, getting around 70c at load, but then i looked around for people using the stock cooler like me and found that was normal.

GPU temps normal too, around 45 - 53c and 35 - 45c idle and around 65c at load. I've just checked the history of updates for Dragon age and there seems to be a recent one which may be the problem. It never did it in Counter-strike after it started on Dragon age, but i'll try a more intensive game to see if it does it on that.

I'll report back with the answers, thanks.

EDIT: Just played left 4 dead 2 for around 20 minutes and it worked perfectly fine with the XMP enabled. It usually only takes a few minutes on dragon age. I guess it must have been recent updates to the game that is causing it.
 
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