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Ram upgrading, I'm an idiot probably.

Dec 29, 2018
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Obligatory long time lurker, first-time poster nonsense.

Essentially, for Christmas I received a new 2x8gb 1600mhz Corsair Vengence DDR3 Ram Kit. I placed this in the black channel of my Asus p877-v motherboard w/ an i7 3770 @ 3.4ghz. In dual channel putting it into the far left black slot and skipping a slot to the second black slot and placing my original ram (2x4gb 1333mhz DDR3 Samsung Dims) in the second channel. I made sure that the full 24gb was being picked up in the bios, at the lowest speed as I had assumed, wasn't a big deal for me as I prefer the capacity over the speed so I can game whilst having a fair amount of stuff running in the background.

Well, once I started to run games I noticed they were crashing 5-10 minutes in without fail. Primarily tested Rust and Garry's Mod. The issues extended to stellaris, Modded MInecraft and anything else I through at it but general usage seems fine (once my active discord call crashed alongside with the game)

Eventviewer is telling me it is failed to read addresses so I assume it's directly attributed to the RAM so I ran memtest86 w/ 4 passes and Windows mem diagnostic 10 pass twice in extended mode. No errors.

I have twigged around in the BIOS as well, setting the frequency and everything DRAM related to auto .

Please if you have anything that can guide me as to how to diagnose this further or potentially fix this let me know! TIA!

Edit: This is the model number of the specific dims I have, cmz16gx3m2a1600c10
Working on getting some actual errors from eventviewer to post. Thanks again!

Edit 2: Changed DRAM Timings all to Auto, haven't gotten a crash since. Too soon to know for sure.

Edit 3: Nope, Still got a crash. Nothing about it in event viewer strangely. The crash is essentially the window suddenly disappears.

Edit 4: Tried with Rust, got the same error. https://hastebin.com/obelihewef.sql
 
Memory is guaranteed in the form sold. Other combinations you decide to create have no guarantee to be compatible together. You can do your own compatibility testing with no guarantees.

Workarounds to get extra memory to work include:
lower memory clock speed
relax DRAM timings
increase DRAM voltage
 


Right now I'm just trying to use the new 2x8gb dims, but they're crashing on their own too, I have set memory frequency, DRAM timings and voltage to auto