Question What to do about unstable/bad RAM

[amulsingh01]

I built a new PC about a month ago with a Ryzen 3800x on an Aorus x570 Elite Gaming Wifi with G.skill Ripjaws 16gb 3600mhx cl16 RAM. However, I've been crashing nonstop in games and have had a couple of bluescreens which I thought had to do with my graphics card due to it saying Video Scheduler Internal Error. However, I threw in RAM from my older computer (Corsair Vengeance LPX 16gb @3000mhz) which completely alleviated my issues and everything runs fine now. I have run the memtest86 test on the G.skill RAM and it showed no errors. However, I also ran a system stability test through Aida64 and when running the memory system test and it detects a hardware failure and stops the test. Could this be instability in the XMP profile (just to add, my BIOS is up to date) or do I just have potentially bad RAM? Thanks in advance.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

You could just be unlucky. Higher speed RAM kits have a higher chance of instability. You can try increasing the timings to C17 or increasing the voltage to 1.4V.