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locke89
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 Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 01:15 Post subject: Problem with my new RAM - HELP! |
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OK, so for preparation for glorious Skyrim I decided to but additional 2GB of RAm for my comp. It's C2D E8400@3.4Ghz (overclocked), Asus P5K motherboard and 2x1GB A-Data Extreme Performance 800+, which is now overclocked at 856 at 5-5-5-12 and 2.0V. This setup works flawlessly.
I bought additional two sticks of RAM, 2x1GB, the same exact type of A-Data RAM. Problem is my games crash when I use 3GB or 4GB of RAM. I swapped old RAM with new RAM and it works good in 2GB setup, so I think that new RAM is good. What do you thibk could be a problem? Is it possible that putting 3 or 4 sticks of RAM decreases it's ability to overclock and makes them unstable?
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doobzilla
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 01:54 Post subject: |
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When populating all of your memory slots, you will probably have to increase your dimm voltage. And most likely will have to relax your timings. The first thing you should do is restart your overclocking procedure. Just keep in kind that you might not get as good an overclock as you have now. Best of luck and I sure hope that this helps!
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Thanks for the idea Lutz!
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locke89
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 01:59 Post subject: |
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Yea, I got this tip from other forum too. I made a reset of all overclocking, cpu/ram and seems it works fine. So, back to square one, ehh. Gonna use 3 sticks, maybe I'll get better result than with 4, got 32-bit system anyway.
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 02:35 Post subject: |
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But ... don't you need pairs to take advantage of dual-channel ?
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swebarb
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 16:44 Post subject: |
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u should buy paired memory instead that are tested to work together usually.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 17:26 Post subject: |
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keep in mind overclocking ram timings yields 0.x % framerate improvements in games. Save yourself a lot of headaches and play at the factory settings.
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 18:03 Post subject: |
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Update the BIOS just to be sure.
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locke89
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Nov 2011 19:12 Post subject: |
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Linx is the best for that.
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Raccoon
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Nov 2011 01:39 Post subject: |
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not to chime in late but keep mind too that more memory sticks will make it harder to overclock on your cpu
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doobzilla
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Nov 2011 16:01 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | not to chime in late but keep mind too that more memory sticks will make it harder to overclock on your cpu |
What the squirrel said.
I spent almost sixteen hours in total dialing in my system to 4.6GHz with all six slots populated (12GB). Whereas, I spent about four hours in a day when I only had three sticks in it.
Of course, now I've dialed the overclock back to 4.0GHz so I could get better timings with all 12GB.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 06:02 Post subject: |
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| locke89 wrote: | | Yea, I got this tip from other forum too. I made a reset of all overclocking, cpu/ram and seems it works fine. So, back to square one, ehh. Gonna use 3 sticks, maybe I'll get better result than with 4, got 32-bit system anyway. |
Hi, sorry for my bad english, if anyway you run 32-bit system, the system don't accept more than 3gb of ram, so 3 sticks of ram is the max that 32 bit system use, the stick 4 is useless on 32 bit system, use win x 64 to use more than 3 gb of ram. If your ram is new, use 'memtest' on usb stick, and make a test of all your ram stck's, if encounter a problem test each chip separately. Many new ram sticks are bad. If all your sticks are ok make shure you have a corect power supply, bad noname power supply are most part of time the problem. hope can help you.
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