RAM working completely fine...expect in games

Airuol

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I've been all over the internet looking for a similar problem so that I might just apply the solution to my problem, but I have yet to find anything similar to my problem. I bought this ram:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104155
from newegg when I built my computer, and recently bought:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HM2BS8/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
this one to add to it. The problem I'm having is that with all sticks installed games just seem to get stuck visually, the computer doesn't freeze and I'm not even sure the game freezes because it doesn't appear as "Not responding" in the task manager and I can easily alt+f4 out of the game or close it from the task manager. Some games do crash however but the computer itself does not, the games usually run smoothly for a good 30-60 seconds. I thought for sure that they were the same exact ram timings clock speeds and all, I even emailed kingston asking if they were and got a reply back saying that they were. I've run each set of sticks both together and in pairs of 2 to see if any of them were bad in memtest and it's come back all clear. I've also installed the latest graphics drivers, twice, to make sure that wasn't the issue either. I've also ran FurMark to stress the GPU, that tested out fine, Prime95 which also tested fine. I'm also using this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128443
and a GTX 460 from Asus the 768MB version if any of that information is important. Is there anything I haven't tried?
 

Airuol

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Hmm I can try that, though I'm not sure how to set the voltages for each stick, the current BIOS I have doesn't let me for each stick? Or can changing just the voltage listed change them all?
 

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it's also worth noting that putting the ram back in now, the little sticker on the side does say 1.6v but in very small print it says 1.5v on the two sockets I'm putting the new ram into. I checked the bios, but what exactly am I looking for for the Ram voltage, DRAM? that was set to 1.5v auto I think so I put it to 1.5v in manual mode, started up a game and it still caused it to stop like before.
 
In the bios when you set the ram voltage to 1.5v then that's what it is for all the sticks and you cannot set them individually.
If you put just the one set in that you first had and run it does the computer freeze ? If you then remove that set and put in the new set and run it does the computer freeze ?
You may want to try putting in all the sticks and setting the ram voltage to 1.6v to see if it will work.
 
In the details page of the motherboard that you have it states this;

"To reach DDR3 1866MHz or above, you must install two memory modules and install them in the DDR3_3 and DDR3_4 memory sockets"

After reading this it's making me think that the motherboard has some different requirements then other boards and that could cause the issue that your having. The board states that it can support 16gb of ram so I'm wondering what it will take to support that and I know that your only trying to get 8gb to work but there is something going on with this board.
Have you tried a bios update ?
 

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I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and this page:
http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3517&dl=1#bios
is the page for my motherboard, under the version: F5 the description says "Modify memory voltage compatibility" which could help? if that's the issue, but I can't download that one because it's for windows 32-bit, so it won't allow me.
I've also inserted the ram sticks in basically every configuration, old ones in by themselves (that's the ones from Newegg) and the new ones (from amazon) in by themselves, the computer boots fine with either of them in separately OR even with all four in (like I have right now typing this message) it's only when I start the game does it freeze the game, not the computer or the screen, just the game.
 

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Well an update is that the new (amazon) ram is in and the games are still acting up and crashing. I think I'm going to run a memtest on it alone to see how it results.

Edit: The Amazon RAM was in by itself without the other ram, in the main two slots and it still caused the freeze, Memtest also came back clear.