2 RAM sticks causing random restarts.

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Okay. So while building my system I had gotten a 4GB Corsair Vengeance (ver 3.24). 2 months later I bought another 4GB corsair vengeance (ver 8.22), both 1600MHz. Then my computer started randomly restarting after a couple weeks. First it was only during gaming and then it started happening when using chrome. A couple of times, it even happened while I was watching a video on media player classic. So after a lot of troubleshooting I narrowed it down to RAM or PSU. So I ran memtest with one stick at a time. Test results passed. Then for some reason I forgot to put the other stick in and casually started gaming...to my surprise, not a single restart ever since...so I would really like your input on this...maybe you all know a fix for this?

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Motherboard : ASUS M97 LE R2.0
CPU : AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5GHz
GPU : ATI R7 250X 2GB
PSU : Corsair VS550
OS : Windows 7 ultimate 64bit service pack 1
 
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Okay I just did that. Will test it out by playing a few games and running some tests. Please keep this thread open. I will most definitely reply within the next 12 hours. Thank you :)

 
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Sorry for the late reply, had to get some sleep. But, increasing the voltages didn't work. Got the restarts again. Maybe that stick is bad and memtest couldn't recognize? I don't know but this is one crazy problem.
 
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Did that and it restarted again after 30 minutes. Guess they are just not compatible with each other as you said. Will try replacing and test when I can. Thanks again :)


EDIT : I just checked in CPU-Z and noticed that one RAM has xmp 1.2 and the other has xmp 1.3 profile respectively. Does this say something about the problem?
 
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Oh okay...so is there any other solution? I am all out of options here but to run my system with just 1 stick of RAM.

 
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I have this exact same problem! I have 2x 8GB corsair vengeance. So i dont think its a compatibility problem. My pc works fine with one stick without restarting and ive tested both sticks and each work. I didnt start experiencing this problem untill i had some sort of power surge. A strange noise came from my power strip and shut down my pc. ever since i have been experiencing random reboots.
 
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