Help! Can't Get ram to 1600 on Asus Crosshair IV Formula.

[-713king-]

Hey guys I currently have ASUS Crosshair IV Formula with AMD 965BE and as for ram I'm using OCZ Gold that is rated at 1600 (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) well in bios I see that it is set to auto at 1067Mhz and when I put it to 1600 and stock voltage of 1.65 well during gaming in Counter Strike or starting benchmark test computer crashes. When I leave everything on auto there is no crash at all, I been at it for 2 straight days trying to figure out what is wrong. I made sure the ram is set correctly as stated in manual. I tried setting the voltage on auto but it goes up to 1.70 volts and even at that the game will crash but it wont crash my computer completely as if I set it at 1.65 volts. As in video card if its needed to trouble shoot I have HD 4890, I thought at first it was my video card messing up that I even contacted XFX but after only messing with ram is the only time I would crash.

 

[ahumphers91]

No problem. Let me know what happens with the Ram. You can keep this thread open or just send me a private message and let me know what happened. I'm interested to see what it was. Good Luck

 

[-713king-]

It was definitely my ram that I was using, since that OCZ was optimized for i7. So I went with Corsair Dominator 1600 for 100 dollars at my local Frys, awesome deal and no wait time for it to ship lol.

 

[ahumphers91]

cool, good to hear. have fun!

 

[-713king-]

Wow I believe I spoke too soon lmao, It is definitely my motherboard because I had everything stock and had my voltage on stock as well and when I would enter windows I would blue screen. Than I managed to get into windows and it said something about memory could not be read, this sucks.

 

[ahumphers91]

yeah, RMA the board back to Asus or wherever you bought it.