Ok so about a year and a half ago I build a system consisting of:
i5-3570k
HD 7970
2x4GB Kingston 1600MHz RAM
ASROCK Pro4-m
Everything was fine until about a month after I switched to this RAM (G. Skill 2133MHz):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231519
Then my motherboard started breaking every month. It would start out fine for a week, and then crash more-and-more often until it became unusable. Thus I looked around and found 1 or 2 reviews on Newegg who said the exact same thing happened to them. So then I got an MSI Z77MA-G45 thinking it would solve my problems. Now this motherboard is having the same problem (Crash to blackscreen) that my ASROCK one had. So WTF is going on?!
-Is this RAM just too fast my mid-range boards?
-Is this RAM evil?
-Could my Intel CPU be killing them?!
-Do I just have the worst luck ever?
-Has anyone else here ever received a bad Intel CPU?
Other things to note:
-I was stupid with my RAM last summer and ended up frying it. G. Skill sent me new RAM so all is good, but that means that it wasn't a particular set of RAM breaking my motherboards. All of these models are bad (If the RAM is indeed the culprit).
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i5-3570k
HD 7970
2x4GB Kingston 1600MHz RAM
ASROCK Pro4-m
Everything was fine until about a month after I switched to this RAM (G. Skill 2133MHz):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231519
Then my motherboard started breaking every month. It would start out fine for a week, and then crash more-and-more often until it became unusable. Thus I looked around and found 1 or 2 reviews on Newegg who said the exact same thing happened to them. So then I got an MSI Z77MA-G45 thinking it would solve my problems. Now this motherboard is having the same problem (Crash to blackscreen) that my ASROCK one had. So WTF is going on?!
-Is this RAM just too fast my mid-range boards?
-Is this RAM evil?
-Could my Intel CPU be killing them?!
-Do I just have the worst luck ever?
-Has anyone else here ever received a bad Intel CPU?
Other things to note:
-I was stupid with my RAM last summer and ended up frying it. G. Skill sent me new RAM so all is good, but that means that it wasn't a particular set of RAM breaking my motherboards. All of these models are bad (If the RAM is indeed the culprit).
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