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Is 4-4-4-10 tight timings for DDR2 memory

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August 21, 2014 6:29:53 PM

Was just wondering if these timings are alright for this RAM. It's running at 261 mhz and I would assume it should be alright timings but I bought my computer second hand and was just wondering if anything was tampered with on it. Just looking online this seems like pretty good timings especially considering it looks like some kind of cheapo, off brand called supertalent (I've at least never heard of them). Was just wondering about my timings now as I've been getting frequent BSOD's and crashes lately normally when my computer is under a bit of stress. At first I assumed it was the RAM because I was getting BSOD errors suggesting problems with some sort of RAM drivers (Mainly "paged fault" and "irq is not less or equal" errors) but after doing a bit of testing I wonder if my hard drive is at fault as after doing an extensive hard drive test it said I had un-repairable sectors although I didn't take this very seriously. I have yet to test my CPU and GPU so I still think it's a RAM problem but I would like to hear some feedback on both of these problems.

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August 21, 2014 6:54:53 PM

pizzahead911 said:
Was just wondering if these timings are alright for this RAM. It's running at 261 mhz and I would assume it should be alright timings but I bought my computer second hand and was just wondering if anything was tampered with on it. Just looking online this seems like pretty good timings especially considering it looks like some kind of cheapo, off brand called supertalent (I've at least never heard of them). Was just wondering about my timings now as I've been getting frequent BSOD's and crashes lately normally when my computer is under a bit of stress. At first I assumed it was the RAM because I was getting BSOD errors suggesting problems with some sort of RAM drivers (Mainly "paged fault" and "irq is not less or equal" errors)

261x2 does not equal 533 which is a common ddr2 mhz i would attribute that mhz frequency you're running to the ram driver problem.
irq faults are mostly dealing with devices sharing the same..uhmm... signaling /call time i'll call it. i am not familiar with the lower end speed ddr2 timings as i am the higher end of ddr2 1066 which would be 533x2, good timings for that would be 5-5-5-15, so to me 4-4-4-10 sounds average to slightly under average. with out really fine tuned setting after the 10 could cause alot of problems if the beginning of the new cycle starts before the end of the last cycle going on top of it.
your errors sound more like a motherboard issue such as a loose(bad solder/cold solder) capacitor which would better than explain every issue you're experiencing, but that's quite a technical issue to figure out i can't help you with if i don't have your stuff right infront of me to tinker on. a bad northbridge cooler could also attribute alot of this i have seen from my experience.

this is a technical issue beyond geeksquads capability.
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August 21, 2014 7:14:19 PM

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pizzahead911 said:
Was just wondering if these timings are alright for this RAM. It's running at 261 mhz and I would assume it should be alright timings but I bought my computer second hand and was just wondering if anything was tampered with on it. Just looking online this seems like pretty good timings especially considering it looks like some kind of cheapo, off brand called supertalent (I've at least never heard of them). Was just wondering about my timings now as I've been getting frequent BSOD's and crashes lately normally when my computer is under a bit of stress. At first I assumed it was the RAM because I was getting BSOD errors suggesting problems with some sort of RAM drivers (Mainly "paged fault" and "irq is not less or equal" errors)

261x2 does not equal 533 which is a common ddr2 mhz i would attribute that mhz frequency you're running to the ram driver problem.
irq faults are mostly dealing with devices sharing the same..uhmm... signaling /call time i'll call it. i am not familiar with the lower end speed ddr2 timings as i am the higher end of ddr2 1066 which would be 533x2, good timings for that would be 5-5-5-15, so to me 4-4-4-10 sounds average to slightly under average. with out really fine tuned setting after the 10 could cause alot of problems if the beginning of the new cycle starts before the end of the last cycle going on top of it.
your errors sound more like a motherboard issue such as a loose(bad solder/cold solder) capacitor which would better than explain every issue you're experiencing, but that's quite a technical issue to figure out i can't help you with if i don't have your stuff right infront of me to tinker on. a bad northbridge cooler could also attribute alot of this i have seen from my experience.

this is a technical issue beyond geeksquads capability.


That sucks I was really hoping to get out of this with just a cheap RAM fix. Oh well i'll probably just get a budget gaming build in a few months as the build I have currently barely works for gaming. Still it would be nice to have a reliable HTPC. Guess I will just use it until it dies
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