Can a faulty motherboard damage the CPU or RAM?

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curioususer123

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One of my previous RAM sticks were faulty - this occurred over a month, I used to get the occasional BSOD but they because more frequent until my PC couldn't run unless I took the faulty RAM module out.

I RMAd the RAM, my new RAM works fine, but I just had a random BSOD, I tried memtest and there are no errors at all. I haven't updated the motherboard drivers on this drive but I'm wondering if which faulty components can damage what other hardware - providing everything is on stock settings.
 
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ram can just go bad, it happens not all that rare. Go into the bios and enable xmp, you might as well do so since you paid for the faster ram. It won't help them to run at 1333, your system will just be slower :)
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Yes any two parts tied together can damage eachother. It is highly unlikley that the ram damaged a board or cpu, especially if it was just throwing blue screens (not like it cooked in the socket or something). For decent memory running at stock settings can actually harm them. They are meant to run at a certain speed and running them slower doesn't help them, CAN actually do the opposite.

I guess tell me what ram/cpu/motherboard you have and we can see if some tweaks might help your situation.
 
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I was wondering if the motherboard could damage the RAM, since my motherboard seems fine at the moment as all my other components are working but my RAM was working until I started getting errors in one stick, I have new RAM now so I want to make sure it doesn't happen again.

My motherboard is Gigabyte Z87 HD3 and my RAM is Corsair Vengeance 1600 Mhz 8GB (2x4), running at 1333Mhz at 1.5V according to the bios.
 
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I was going to enable XMP but I read that the CPU runs much hotter than when it is disabled, any truth to this?
 
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It might if you were trying to run at 2400 mhz or something but just to bump it to 1600 and correct timings shouldn't cause any heat issues. I have mine OCed to 1866 (from 1600 speed sticks) and nothing runs warmer than it did when they were back at normal. You're not even ocing anything.
 
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You're right! I've just updated my drivers now and turned on XMP, much nicer, thank you!
 
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