Your urgent advice please

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:22

Hi all,

Was in the process of building a high end socket 2011 system for my Brother in law with a 4930K cpu. I unfortunately previously purchased some 2133Mhz speed Gskill ram quad kit from elsewhere - trouble is it is faulty,so I am going to have to return it.This is a problem,because I was supposed to be delivering the machine between Xmas and new year, but not now. The Gskill ram had nice tight timings of cas 9,11,10,28 - thats why I chose it. So what do I replace it with - if I can order tonight or tomorrow - then there might be a chance of still making my deadline - apart from some other problems.

Any suggestions please?

Mark

Nickolp1974 · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:24

I'm on g skill trident X, 2400 @cl10 but i can do cl 9 and with tight subs, can also get em to 2570 cl10

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:27

Nickolp1974 said:
I'm on g skill trident X, 2400 @cl10 but i can do cl 9 and with tight subs, can also get em to 2570 cl10

Sounds like they would be fine, but ocers dont sell them.

Mark

wazza300 · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:28

what fault? memtest ect

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:32

Nickolp1974 said:
I'm on g skill trident X, 2400 @cl10 but i can do cl 9 and with tight subs, can also get em to 2570 cl10

Is your kit these: F3-2400C10Q-16GTX

Mark

Nickolp1974 · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:34

tipes said:
Is your kit these: F3-2400C10Q-16GTX

Mark

Yep

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:35

wazza300 said:
what fault? memtest ect

Hi Wazza,

Did not get that far, as I spent a lot of time trying to get them to work.Tried one stick at a time and even mem ok would not boot with them - so gave up and chucked a spare set of two DDR3 Gskill 1600Mghz I had spare, and they worked fine straight away. so it is not the board, but it certainly does not like the ram. Perhaps I could try them tomorrow with memtest, but as 3 out of the four are just not recognised in bios - think I might be wasting my time though.

Your thoughts?

Mark

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:36

Nickolp1974 said:
Yep

Think I will see if I can get any of these delivered before xmas.

Cheers

Mark

wazza300 · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:40

Flashed board to latest BIOS? Then tried the ram?

Nickolp1974 · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:42

Which board is it?

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:45

wazza300 said:
Flashed board to latest BIOS? Then tried the ram?

Yes - tried that, and no difference.

Mark

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:45

Nickolp1974 said:
Which board is it?

It is the Asus P9X79.

Mark

Nickolp1974 · 21 Dec 2013 at 22:52

So with the ram which works have you tried just 1 stick in each ram slot to 100% rule out the mobo??

tipes · 21 Dec 2013 at 23:09

Nickolp1974 said:
So with the ram which works have you tried just 1 stick in each ram slot to 100% rule out the mobo??

Must admit I have not done that - I will do tomorrow, groan.

Cheers for the advice though.

Mark

Decided to try the ram in my board and see what happens.

Update: Tried the ram in my system - would not boot at all or even allow me to get in too the bios, so I think deffo faulty. It will have to go back.

Merry Xmas all.

Nickolp1974 · 22 Dec 2013 at 23:28

Did you get sorted mark?

tipes · 23 Dec 2013 at 10:44

Nickolp1974 said:
Did you get sorted mark?

As above post - tried them in my machine and absolutely no go - so faulty.Have an rma to return them, and I pick up the same ram set you have later today.Hope this will be the end of my ram problems for this build.

Merry Xmas to you and all

Mark

Nickolp1974 · 23 Dec 2013 at 12:09

best timings so far

tipes · 23 Dec 2013 at 14:29

Nickolp1974 said:
best timings so far

Cheers - thanks for that. I now have the kit in my hands, but getting ready to go away for Xmas - will post back with developments.

Many thanks for your help and advice - have a good one

Mark

tipes · 28 Dec 2013 at 22:53

Fitted the new Gskill 2400 kit, and no problems.Have not tweaked it yet,as I have other things to do first. The memory is now spot on though.Thanks all for their help and happy new year to all.

Mark

nniitt · 2 Jan 2014 at 15:46

Nickolp1974 said:
best timings so far

can you post your aida64 memory bandwidth test results?