- Apr 1, 2013
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I’ve fairly recently built a computer. I used an ASRock Mother board (990fx extreme 3) among other components. (Full component list: http://pcpartpicker.com/b/ADb)
The two different types of RAM I’ve installed in the computer now have gone bad – each at different time frames. The first set (G.SKIL DDR3 2x4GBs, PC-1866) went bad in less than a week (or was shipped bad, not really sure). The second set (Corsair DDR3 4x4GBs, PC-1600) went bad in a month and a week. (Bad is as defined by MemTest86+)
So my question is this: Could the motherboard have a flaw that is causing the RAM to fail? I don’t know why, but I suspect something is up with the motherboard. The longer I’ve had it, the more I feel this way.
For instance, occasionally I lose video (just black monitors) during boot. It’s after the profile log-in while Windows is doing the initial load of stuff. If it gets past this part, it’s always stable (which I realize could mean some software is causing a driver to crash or something). It’s intermittent and I can’t pin-point it.
Also, in a parallel universe let’s say one
was playing with minor overclocking. Could increasing the northbridge voltage by .05 (or less) voltage cause RAM to go bad?
Finally, how does power supply [quality] factor in to this equation?
Thank you for your time.
The two different types of RAM I’ve installed in the computer now have gone bad – each at different time frames. The first set (G.SKIL DDR3 2x4GBs, PC-1866) went bad in less than a week (or was shipped bad, not really sure). The second set (Corsair DDR3 4x4GBs, PC-1600) went bad in a month and a week. (Bad is as defined by MemTest86+)
So my question is this: Could the motherboard have a flaw that is causing the RAM to fail? I don’t know why, but I suspect something is up with the motherboard. The longer I’ve had it, the more I feel this way.
For instance, occasionally I lose video (just black monitors) during boot. It’s after the profile log-in while Windows is doing the initial load of stuff. If it gets past this part, it’s always stable (which I realize could mean some software is causing a driver to crash or something). It’s intermittent and I can’t pin-point it.
Also, in a parallel universe let’s say one
was playing with minor overclocking. Could increasing the northbridge voltage by .05 (or less) voltage cause RAM to go bad?
Finally, how does power supply [quality] factor in to this equation?
Thank you for your time.
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