Kingston HyperX 16GB Kit on Maximus VI Hero

[JesuZ]

Hello,

I just bought new hardware,and it appeared, that kit that I first got, was completely mess. Win 7 Ultimate x64 crashed consistenly, and few minutes memtest run revealed this

So, I went to change my memory kit, and got new one, woho. Before I even tried how windows work, I thought it could be best to run memtest on new kit.

And result is

Question is, should I be worried about this...? Should I call the shop, that even new kit got errors in memtest.

My whole setup is
ASUS Maximus VI Hero
Intel i7-4770K
Kingston HyperX 16gB (2x8GB) (KHX16C10B1BK2/16X)
MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming OC Edition 2048 MB

 

[Tradesman1]

Did you set the DRAM to run under XMP? What slots are the sticks in?

 

[JesuZ]

Did you set the DRAM to run under XMP? What slots are the sticks in?

Yes DRAM running under XMP (Profile #1, actually that's only option)

And memory is installed in DIMM_A2, and DIMM_B2 slots as manual recommends.

 

[Tradesman1]

Sounds like a bad stick, could try each individually under Memtest, if both test bad possibly mobo or CPU or if you can gget your hands on another pair of sticks to try

 

[JesuZ]

Actually found solution to this. For some reason even thou XMP is enabled from BIOS, and #1 Profile should use 1600-10-10-10 latencies with dimms, it runs dimms with 1866-9-10-9 latencies.

Maximum specs for dimms by Kingston is that 1600-10-10-10. After changed manually latencies to 10-10-10, memtest has run three days without errors.

 

[Tradesman1]

Glad to hear, might have gotten sticks that were flashed wrong in the SPD, the BIOS should take the info direct from the sticks SPD...maybe they failed at 1866 and were supposed to be reflashed for 1600 and they just missed them, packaged them as 1600 and sent them out