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Yesterday, I upgraded one of my computers with more RAM. The setup of my mobo was like this.
4 Slots
Slot 1 and 3 were white
Slot 2 and 4 were blue
Before the upgrade, I used to use 2 sticks of 2 GB each on slots 2 and 4. This is what the mobo manual suggested: if i only had 2 memory modules, it wanted me to use the same color slots. That's fine... I never stress-tested it or anything, but I absolutely never ran into any problems at all.
However, when i added in my new RAM yesterday, I simply put them in Slots 1 and 3. Then I rebooted, and my computer freaked the *** out. Gave me a message about overclocking or changing the voltage or something. BSOD's occured twice in Starcraft games, and one BSD occured right after i booted up Windows. I told BIOS to use default values, but that didn't seem to help either.
The RAM was the same exact model as the old RAM (bought off the same Newegg page)
Looking at my mobo manual, I saw this:
Channel A: Slots 1, 2
Channel B: Slots 3, 4
So I switched them up so that the old RAM occupied slots 3, 4 (same channel). The new RAM went into slots 1,2. After rebooting, setting BIOS to default values, my system appeared pretty stable.
I ran IntelBurnTest 3 times.
10 iterations of "Standard" - passed without a problem
5 iterations of "Very High" - passed without a problem
10 iterations of "Maximum" - Returned an error that said: "WARNING! Linpack binary stopped unexpectedly. This could be a result of missing executables, unstable system, or a soft ware bug. If you have UAC enabled, please try re-running the program with administrative privileges."
Afterwards, I played a game of Starcraft. It went smooth as silk.
Right now, I've left it to run Memtest86+ at home. I ran it about 20 minutes before i left the house, but at that point, there didn't seem to be any errors.
Should I be worried about my system's stability (because of the failed Maximum IntelBurnTest)? Is it important that the same RAM occupies the same "Channels" in a Dual Memory setup? Why should that even matter (since they should be the same RAM anyway... although they were bought about a year apart)?
Also, a slight aside, my mobo is reporting that my memory is running at DDR3-1333 (665 MHz for each stick). These are all sticks of DDR3-1600 (the packaging says so). Should I look into manually setting my voltages to clear up all problems? Maybe BIOS is just not setting this stuff up right? I'm less worried about this, though, cuz i hear the difference between 1333 and 1600 is neglible, although it is a bit annoying to have paid for 1600, and have gotten 1333 performance.
RAM is G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600
Mobo is Gigabyte Z68P-DS3
4 Slots
Slot 1 and 3 were white
Slot 2 and 4 were blue
Before the upgrade, I used to use 2 sticks of 2 GB each on slots 2 and 4. This is what the mobo manual suggested: if i only had 2 memory modules, it wanted me to use the same color slots. That's fine... I never stress-tested it or anything, but I absolutely never ran into any problems at all.
However, when i added in my new RAM yesterday, I simply put them in Slots 1 and 3. Then I rebooted, and my computer freaked the *** out. Gave me a message about overclocking or changing the voltage or something. BSOD's occured twice in Starcraft games, and one BSD occured right after i booted up Windows. I told BIOS to use default values, but that didn't seem to help either.
The RAM was the same exact model as the old RAM (bought off the same Newegg page)
Looking at my mobo manual, I saw this:
Channel A: Slots 1, 2
Channel B: Slots 3, 4
So I switched them up so that the old RAM occupied slots 3, 4 (same channel). The new RAM went into slots 1,2. After rebooting, setting BIOS to default values, my system appeared pretty stable.
I ran IntelBurnTest 3 times.
10 iterations of "Standard" - passed without a problem
5 iterations of "Very High" - passed without a problem
10 iterations of "Maximum" - Returned an error that said: "WARNING! Linpack binary stopped unexpectedly. This could be a result of missing executables, unstable system, or a soft ware bug. If you have UAC enabled, please try re-running the program with administrative privileges."
Afterwards, I played a game of Starcraft. It went smooth as silk.
Right now, I've left it to run Memtest86+ at home. I ran it about 20 minutes before i left the house, but at that point, there didn't seem to be any errors.
Should I be worried about my system's stability (because of the failed Maximum IntelBurnTest)? Is it important that the same RAM occupies the same "Channels" in a Dual Memory setup? Why should that even matter (since they should be the same RAM anyway... although they were bought about a year apart)?
Also, a slight aside, my mobo is reporting that my memory is running at DDR3-1333 (665 MHz for each stick). These are all sticks of DDR3-1600 (the packaging says so). Should I look into manually setting my voltages to clear up all problems? Maybe BIOS is just not setting this stuff up right? I'm less worried about this, though, cuz i hear the difference between 1333 and 1600 is neglible, although it is a bit annoying to have paid for 1600, and have gotten 1333 performance.
RAM is G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600
Mobo is Gigabyte Z68P-DS3
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