Can i turn off Dual Channel memory...?

[Woodlore]

I have 2x8GB sticks of Corsair Vengance 1600MHz RAM. In dual channel mode they are casuing an annoying amount of BSOD. I would be happy if i could get them both to run in single channel mode without any BSOD. Any ideas on how i can turn dual channel off...?

I have a Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 motherboard.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[truegenius]

^ indeed it is something to ask corsair about

their vengence series is causing too much trouble for many users even with different motherboard venders (like asus too)

I have 4 GB vengence and 4GB sniper
and sniper runs without any hicup at upto 2133mhz
but vengence bsod at rated setting
so I assume its bad memory
(luckily when I use sniper and vengence together then it remains more dtable than vengence alone , looks like sniper is forcing vengence to run stable)

 

[Woodlore]

^ indeed it is something to ask corsair about

their vengence series is causing too much trouble for many users even with different motherboard venders (like asus too)

I have 4 GB vengence and 4GB sniper
and sniper runs without any hicup at upto 2133mhz
but vengence bsod at rated setting
so I assume its bad memory
(luckily when I use sniper and vengence together then it remains more dtable than vengence alone , looks like sniper is forcing vengence to run stable)

It's strange because both memory sticks come up clean in memtest. So it's a really random incompatibility.

Thanks for the input though.

 

[Flying-Q]

@ keith12

Why did you un-select my 'best answer '. The fact that Woodlore's problems stem from a different source, which we as a group have found, does not negate the original question that began this thread nor does it negate the research I conducted to provide the correct answer to that question. Please re-instate.

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[Woodlore]

Another BSOS whilst playing ARMA II.



No idea what to do now. Completely out of ideas now.

 

[truegenius]

its bad ram
try different ram like gskilll sniper and check if problem still occurs
and rma the rams

 

[Woodlore]

Anything else you can suggest before I do that?

Really want to exhaust all possibilities before having to down the compter for however long the RAM takes. Also will they actually accept the RAM and on what grounds? Apart from it BSODing it comes up clean in all the memory tests I've done.

Thanks again.

 

[truegenius]

ram is unstable at stock settings and even at loose timings so this is ram issue

you can try 1333mhz cl9-9-9-24-35-2T @1.5v which is jedec settings for vengence ram

 

[Woodlore]

ram is unstable at stock settings and even at loose timings so this is ram issue

you can try 1333mhz cl9-9-9-24-35-2T @1.5v which is jedec settings for vengence ram

Thanks ill give that a go. Any particular tool you recommend to test?
They have been coming up clean on MemTest btw.

Thanks.

 

[truegenius]

I use prime95 to test
though it still does not guaranty full stability

 

[Woodlore]

I use prime95 to test
though it still does not guaranty full stability

What settings?

I use it. Just so many different possibilities to test with.
At what stage would you be happy with your memory?

 

[truegenius]

I run all three torture test for 5-10 tests
1333mhz cl9 will be stable
maybe xmp settings of these rams are not stable for amd cpus

 

[Woodlore]

I run all three torture test for 5-10 tests
1333mhz cl9 will be stable
maybe xmp settings of these rams are not stable for amd cpus

I'm using an i5-3750K.

Thanks ill run those and see what happens.

 

[truegenius]

oops! just went out of my mind that 😛 you have g1 sniper z77 board and using intel cpu because there are other threads too complaining about unstable vengence and they are usin amd cpu (I too using phenom 2 x6 1090T ) so it went out of my mind 😀

BTW if you using only 2 sticks then you can buy 2 gskill sniper (if you want to buy in future) , because in my case this sniper ram is making my system more stable and it runs at 1600mhz cl9 @1.5v stable now no bsods due to ram, its just a suggestion for future buy based on my experience with these rams

 

[truegenius]

oops! just went out of my mind that 😛 you have g1 sniper z77 board and using intel cpu because there are other threads too complaining about unstable vengence and they are usin amd cpu (I too using phenom 2 x6 1090T ) so it went out of my mind 😀

BTW if you using only 2 sticks then you can buy 2 gskill sniper (if you want to buy in future) , because in my case this sniper ram is making my system more stable and it runs at 1600mhz cl9 @1.5v stable now no bsods due to ram, its just a suggestion for future buy based on my experience with these rams

 

[Woodlore]

oops! just went out of my mind that 😛 you have g1 sniper z77 board and using intel cpu because there are other threads too complaining about unstable vengence and they are usin amd cpu (I too using phenom 2 x6 1090T ) so it went out of my mind 😀

BTW if you using only 2 sticks then you can buy 2 gskill sniper (if you want to buy in future) , because in my case this sniper ram is making my system more stable and it runs at 1600mhz cl9 @1.5v stable now no bsods due to ram, its just a suggestion for future buy based on my experience with these rams

Thanks. Good tip. Unfortunately buying more ram is a little way in the future for me. It's a new build and I already have 16GB. It's not like I use all of that now anyway.

Thanks again.