New memory caused pc to crash

[zeppman]

Hello everyone,

Hope you can help me out here. I purchased this motherboard and this RAM 3 or 4 years ago, and never had an issue:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231303
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128416

I recently was building up a computer for my parents and decided to buy another stick of RAM for my own computer. I purchased:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231310

Last night as I was playing DOTA 2, the game would just quit abruptly. After it doing this 3 or 4 times, I got the BSOD and the computer shutdown and restarted.

I pulled out the "newer" 4GB stick and things went back to normal.

I'm assuming I've screwed up by mixing speeds, voltages and latencys of the RAM... just wanted you guys to confirm.

Is there anything I can do to make this work or should I just exchange what I purchased for something that matches what I have currently in the computer?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Tradesman1]

Try the 4 GB stick in slot 1, and the older sticks in slots 3-4, manually set the DRAM to 1333, base timings to 9-9-9-24, DRAM voltgae to 1.55 and the CPU/NB voltage to 1.275 and give it a try

 

[zeppman]

Thanks for the thorough response Tradesman. I'll give that a shot.

 

[Tradesman1]

Let me know

 

[zeppman]

Well I re-installed the RAM and followed your directions. I didn't get to play the game last night, but I did run the MEM86 test and all checked out fine.

This question will surely show my lack of knowledge, but is 8Gb ram at 1333 better or worse then 4Gb ram at 1600?

 

[Tradesman1]

I'd go the 8GB at 1333 everytime

 

[zeppman]

Great, thank you for your help!