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I originally bought one 2x1gb set of Patriot Extreme Performance RAM (5-5-5-12 2T PC2-6400) which worked flawlessly in my old system. When I built my new system, I bought another set of the same RAM to make 4gb. I know it's the same RAM because I used the link in my newegg.com order history to make sure. Now since building the new system, I get BSODs citing nvlddmkm when I play games such as WoW or AoC. After ruling out the obvious I decided to look into a memory problem.

My memory passes MemTest no matter how many passes I perform. However, today I checked my memory in CPU-Z and this is what I found:

One set of memory has part number: PDC22G6400ELK and recommends 2.0v
While the other one shows: 6400 EL Series and recommends 1.9v

Could this be causing compatibility issues? If so, does anybody know which set I should return to make sure I get a set that will play nice?

My System:
Intel E8400 @ 3.0ghz
ASUS P5N-D nForce 750i SLi
Zotac 8800gt 512mb
4gb (4x1gb) Patriot Extreme Performance RAM
Windows Vista 64 bit

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memtest isn't be-all-end-all. Unfortunately, most everyone thinks so. You need other stability tests to stress the cpu, ram, gpu, hdd & a combo of them. Prime 95, Sandra, 3dmark, pcmark, etc.

Yes, I'd up the vdimm to 2.0v.

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Turns out that the BSOD was not memory related after all. I've pretty much been able to conclude that the problem is a bad PCI-E slot. I've been running test after test as well as gaming (for 4+ hours... horray free time!) with my video card in the other PCI-E slot and I have yet to encounter an error where as before I would get an error after about 20 minutes.

But I did run Prime95 and 3dmark06 prior to my first post. Both ran without complication.

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