Ballistix Tactical reasons for errors -- timings wrong?

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sclamons

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Hello fellow forumgoers,

A series of major problems in Windows prompted me to check my RAM with memcheck, which yielded intermittent, fairly consistent errors in all four sticks. This seemed suspicious, so I've been hunting through my hardware specs using BIOS and CPUz.

While ferreting around, I noticed that my RAM timings don't look standard, and they don't match the advertised timings on the stick (8-8-8-24). Here are the relevant CPUz screen captures:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/71va.png/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/23o.png/

Any idea how these settings were made? Are they safe? Did I miss anything else suspicious about this RAM?

Thanks everyone!

Hardware specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4
Processor: Intel i7-3930k
RAM: 4x8GB Crucual Ballistix Tactical BLT8G3D160DT1TX0
Graphics: Nvidia 660 GT
 
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Your first photo shows the SPD settings (the programming on the sticks for correct timings and for use by XMP, the second photo shows what you are actually running at 1333/CL9, guessing the sticks are just in there on Auto, go to BIOS, enable XMP select profile 1 and should be up to snuff at 1600 (will show as 800 since it's DOUBLE data rate) and the correct timings when you next check the memory tab in CPU-Z
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Your first photo shows the SPD settings (the programming on the sticks for correct timings and for use by XMP, the second photo shows what you are actually running at 1333/CL9, guessing the sticks are just in there on Auto, go to BIOS, enable XMP select profile 1 and should be up to snuff at 1600 (will show as 800 since it's DOUBLE data rate) and the correct timings when you next check the memory tab in CPU-Z
 
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sclamons

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Thanks for the info Tradesman1! I'm still curious, could running my RAM at the settings its on right now cause memory errors? Or should I be looking for something else?
 
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sclamons

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Ok, I followed your suggestion and switched to the XMP-1 configuration in BIOS. However, now CPUz (and my BIOS program) report my timings as 8-8-10-24 rather than 8-8-8-24. Is this reasonable to see?
 
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sclamons

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6 1/2 hours into Memtest, no errors reported yet. I've only tested three sticks so far, because the fourth one showed a LOT more errors during my first round of testing -- I suspect it has an actual problem, not just bad BIOS settings.
 
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