- Oct 19, 2013
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Two years ago, I built my PC with an Intel Core i7-4770k and an 2x4GB kit of Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHZ RAM. About four months after that, I decided to buy another 2x4GB kit of the exact same part number. This made my original motherboard, a Gigabyte Z87-D3HP, very unstable and led to poor performance. I soon replaced the motherboard with an MSI Z87-G55. After, I added an EVGA GTX 770 and a second Western Digital Black 1TB hard drive in RAID 0 with the original. I had absolutely no problems with any of these components.
Recently, I decided I wanted to overclock my CPU and GPU. I found many articles that stated that I should test my memory with Memtest86. Upon doing so, I was met with hundreds of errors. I then decided to test each kit of RAM individually. Doing so resulted in no errors in either of the kits. I called Corsair support and I was told that the errors may be caused by the versions of memory being different. I verified that this was true.
The only issue I've ever had (and I'm not even sure if it's an issue) was that the PC became very slow when the memory was fully being used during a Blender Cycles Fluid Simulation. It eventually returned to normal speed and completed the simulation.
This all being said, is it safe to overclock my CPU and GPU with this memory setup? If not, what needs to be done to enable safe overclocking? Thanks in advance!
Recently, I decided I wanted to overclock my CPU and GPU. I found many articles that stated that I should test my memory with Memtest86. Upon doing so, I was met with hundreds of errors. I then decided to test each kit of RAM individually. Doing so resulted in no errors in either of the kits. I called Corsair support and I was told that the errors may be caused by the versions of memory being different. I verified that this was true.
The only issue I've ever had (and I'm not even sure if it's an issue) was that the PC became very slow when the memory was fully being used during a Blender Cycles Fluid Simulation. It eventually returned to normal speed and completed the simulation.
This all being said, is it safe to overclock my CPU and GPU with this memory setup? If not, what needs to be done to enable safe overclocking? Thanks in advance!
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