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hi guys

My computer crashes daily, sometimes more than five times a night. I believe the issue is that it becomes unstable with four sticks of RAM. I’ve gone days without any problems, but then it suddenly won’t stop crashing. It also seems like it retrains the RAM every time I boot up, though I’m not entirely sure.

I tried following some examples I found on Reddit about stabilizing four sticks, and I think it helped, but I couldn’t replicate their settings exactly because we have different hardware. I’d really appreciate some help troubleshooting this issue. I don’t have much experience or extra components to swap in and out for testing, so I’m looking for other strategies to stabilize four sticks of RAM. Here is my build:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nXdy4p

thanks in advance
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I believe the issue is that it becomes unstable with four sticks of RAM.
If you suspect the ram to be the issue, you might want to try and run the system with only 2 sticks of ram populating slots A2 and B2. See if that brings stability to your system. You can tax the system with daily tasks or memtest86(10 passes) or both.

What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard?
 
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 2604, 11/29/2024

I realized that for the work I’m doing (3D and VFX), I needed more RAM, so I went with four DDR5 32GB sticks. However, when I built it, I didn’t know how challenging it would be to stabilize that setup. I came across some Reddit threads where I learned a trick: placing one set of sticks in Channel 1 and the other in Channel 2. This apparently "tricks" the system into thinking it’s using two large RAM sticks instead of four smaller ones—or at least that’s how I understand it.

I guess I could try just doing 2 to see if it ever crashes again just to make sure it's the 4 rams sticks that's the problem but, I'd still need to figure out how to get 4 sticks to work with my setup
 
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