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I have 4*512mb sticks of this. Now it is rated at 44412, but I can't seem to get it running at that. It will pass memtest BUT will fail orthos blend after minutes. I'm looking for between £90 - £100 :)
Might be the age old problem of having 4 sticks. One of my P4 board is like that. Stick two sticks in and it'll run just fine. 4? Not on your life. Not even heavily underclocked.
Nowt wrong with the sticks either - they're finest Corsair XL jobbies. I put two of them in my old (just retired) server and two in the P4, and they worked fine.
Moral? Don't undervalue them (though I suspect you haven't) without eliminating the motherboard. I just hope you don't have the same issue with your new sticks.
Well now I have 4*1gb sticks in and......
Basically I run memtest - on test 7 I get ONE error. I haven't done a fulltest but tests before test 7 passed fine. Not sure if it's something else effecting the RAM.
Run memtest on pairs, see if it runs ok then.
I may just leave it as it passed 1 pass fine with just 1 error on test 7. I'm sure it'll do it again to. From what I've read memtest isn't effected by memory only.
I wouldn't be using a machine with any memtest failures, personally. Even if it isnt memory, something aint right with the system.
Well it got through 1 pass with 1 error on test 7. Then it errored on other tests on pass 2. Does this suggest a heat issue? Maybe with the board?
It suggests something is wrong, it's in no way indicative of what that could be. Your first port of call is the memory though, which is why I suggested running them in pairs (to either indicate a problem with a particular stick, or with the motherboard and it's handling of 4 sticks).
I will eventually swap the ram. Firstly I will reset my bios to default. The RAM was at default settings, however my CPU/board etc all had +voltages and my CPU was running at 2800mhz (from 1800 stock) with a 1:1 memory divider. I'm re-running memtest to see what happens. If I still get errors, then I'll swap the RAM pair by pair.
Sounds like a plan :thumbup:
On the bright side, vista is fookin fast with 4gb of ram :D
Sadly memtest threw up a few errors after 15 minutes. I've taken a pair out to test it fully :(
The ram is damn hot to touch.
Are you using a an AMD or P4 Rig?
I got 4 x 512 to run on my P4 rig fine at something silly like 2.5-3-3-7, thou it is only DDR not DDR2.
Mine's DDR2. The first set of RAM tested fine. I'm on the second, presumably faulty pair now.
Sounds like you might have the same problem I had. It's somewhat common, and the faster the memory, the more common, or so it seems. I guess if there's even the slightest timing difference between the pairs it can show up.
I have one system that took 4 sticks without issue, but that's a pre-Dual Channel board so isn't particularly sensitive to timing anyway. Only had one other system that could take 4 and that's the one that wouldn't. I designed my new system with 2GB in mind and don't intend to add any more.
You're on the right track with testing (it's what I did), so good luck.
Well...the first pair did 1.5 passes without error
Second pair is almost finished its first pass without error
:/
But I may have tripped myself up...I'm using Memtest86+ 1.55 which supports neither DDR2 or intel's P965 chipset :/
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