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post #1 of 9
10/21/12 at 4:57am
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Hey guys, i made the mistake a while ago of accidentally buying two kits of 2 x 2GB instead of 4 x (whatever)

Ive tried setting the recomended voltage and timings in the BIOS but i still can't seems to get them stable.

Are there any other setting I can try changing that might increase stability?
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post #2 of 9
10/21/12 at 5:07am
What RAM is it? What speed? I doubt it's the RAM, it's more likely to do with a CPU IMC limitation
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10/21/12 at 5:16am
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The RAM I am currently using is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226120
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post #4 of 9
10/21/12 at 6:40am
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bump the RAM voltage to 1.67v
bump IMC (cpu/nb) voltage to ..something higher..up to whatever vcore is.
also..well..try that..1st
next step would be to test each stick individually wheee.gif
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10/21/12 at 8:32am
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Not a mistake. You may be experiencing instability you need to deal with out of having 4 DIMMs regardless of setup. Give your CPU-NB voltage a bump or two to ensure full stability with 4 DIMMs. My setup needed that.
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post #6 of 9
10/21/12 at 8:50am
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Ok, i adjusted the DRAM voltage to 1.67v and bumped up my CPU/NB voltage to match my CPU voltage. After that i proceded to run memtest and it kept failing on test #5. Should I test each stick individually now?
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10/21/12 at 9:06am
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whooah..whaohh..too much cpu/nb voltage could also cause instability..
Let me rephrase..bump it up from stock in increments..testing stability along the way....

What's your Vcore/CPU freq?
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post #8 of 9
10/21/12 at 9:23am
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CPU is currently at 3.2@ 1.4V
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post #9 of 9
10/21/12 at 11:25am
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So i went back and reset the CPU/NB voltage and slowly increased it. I think i went from 1.15V to 1.17V. I then proceeded to run memtest for a couple hours and got zero errors! I will do abit more testing just to make sure everything is stable.

Thanks so much for the help guys, really much appreciated! biggrin.gif
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