Hi all. So it's been a year since I've rebuilt my computer with the Maximus Hero IX motherboard. But I've broken 2 sets of RAM sticks. First set is a pair of PNY Anarchy DDR4, and recently a pair of Corsair Vengeance DDR4. The Corsair only lasted 4-5 months. From what I gathered, RAM is supposed to be the hardest to break among all PC components. Does anyone know what are some common causes for RAM breaking? Thank you for your help.
RAM breaking too often
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stdragon
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Are you sure it's broke? Perhaps you've always been getting errors, and you've been dodging bullets this whole time no realizing it until it causes a BSOD.
I'm not saying they can't get damaged, but in my experience that's very rare. If it does happen, it's often because they were mishandled in regards to ESD during the time of installation by the user.
Most likely it's because of improper memory timings and/or voltage settings in BIOS. This is specifically true if manually over-clocking the memory. Also, be sure that if using high speed rated RAM, that it's officially on the supported motherboard compatibility matrix per the vendor.
If you haven't already, I highly suggest you run MemTest86. If the errors occur randomly, it's due to timing/voltage settings. If it fails over and over at a specific memory address, then yes, most likely those gates in a specific memory chip has been damaged.
I'm not saying they can't get damaged, but in my experience that's very rare. If it does happen, it's often because they were mishandled in regards to ESD during the time of installation by the user.
Most likely it's because of improper memory timings and/or voltage settings in BIOS. This is specifically true if manually over-clocking the memory. Also, be sure that if using high speed rated RAM, that it's officially on the supported motherboard compatibility matrix per the vendor.
If you haven't already, I highly suggest you run MemTest86. If the errors occur randomly, it's due to timing/voltage settings. If it fails over and over at a specific memory address, then yes, most likely those gates in a specific memory chip has been damaged.
smorizio
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if your ram is falling memtest86. make sure the mb has the newest bios to rule out a bug. make sure the bios has the ram voltage and cpu voltage set right. to high and your ram can fry. use hardware info make sure your rig power supply is fine. the last issue is bent pin under the cpu or a shot to the cpu or memory controller in the cpu is bad.
My Corsair RAM was fine when I just got it, but recently it has slowly become more problematic. Sometimes the PC won't boot (code 55), and this morning it just completely broke down. I tried running Memtest on one of the sticks and it froze during the test completely. Luckily I had a spare set of RAM fresh out of the box, and everything is running fine now with the new RAMs.
The computer wouldn't boot with the RAM in their primary slots, but it boots after i changed them to the secondary RAM slots, but after that I just get BSOD after 5-10 mins.
As for RAM speeds, I used to have the corsair set on its XMP profile with 6700k overclocked to 4.2GHz. Perhaps I've incorrectly overclocked something and caused damage to the RAM? I've reset the BIOS settings to default for everything now.
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