so i have been having a lot of trouble with my PC lately, i narrowed down the problem to be my memory thanks to another user on these forums.i have one bad stick of ram that gave me a ton of errors when i tested it, and without it i'm now up and running much better. when testing the first "kit" i had, memtest gave me very little errors that only appeared on test 7, which from what i've read can give false positives. when i added in the third stick it went up slightly, but with the fourth kit it blew through the roof with errors.
*** my question is, what would be my best way to go about fixing it? i have/had 4x4gb of crucial ballistix tactical tracer but the price has gone up quite a bit since i bought it.
i really want to get back to 16gb of ram because i have seen a significant drop in gaming performance with only 8gb. i'm now wondering whether or not i should:
buy a new two-pack kit of the same memory to run with the old kit?
buy a new single stick to run with the two good ones and one "okay" stick?
should i cut my losses and get 4 new sticks of ram? (would rather not, but only if i had to)
anyway this is my build: (nothing on it is OC'd atm but i would like to in the future once i fix this)
cpu: AMD 8320 3.5ghz
hdd: WD caviar blue 320gb << will be upgraded in the near future
mobo: Asus M5A99 PRO R2.0
PSU: Corsair AX760
Gfx: Radeon 7870XT
and a link to my current memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148518
any and all help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
*** my question is, what would be my best way to go about fixing it? i have/had 4x4gb of crucial ballistix tactical tracer but the price has gone up quite a bit since i bought it.
i really want to get back to 16gb of ram because i have seen a significant drop in gaming performance with only 8gb. i'm now wondering whether or not i should:
buy a new two-pack kit of the same memory to run with the old kit?
buy a new single stick to run with the two good ones and one "okay" stick?
should i cut my losses and get 4 new sticks of ram? (would rather not, but only if i had to)
anyway this is my build: (nothing on it is OC'd atm but i would like to in the future once i fix this)
cpu: AMD 8320 3.5ghz
hdd: WD caviar blue 320gb << will be upgraded in the near future
mobo: Asus M5A99 PRO R2.0
PSU: Corsair AX760
Gfx: Radeon 7870XT
and a link to my current memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148518
any and all help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
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