Hey guys,
I got myself a sandy bridge setup a few months ago and all was well (ignoring the chipset issue!). However I encountered a few issues which have confused me.
I occasionally get these lockups where everything freezes and I have to hold the power button in, however these freezes occur when I am doing anything (middle of a game, just on the desktop etc.)
I've tried running memtest and orthos and both seem to run no problems.
One caveat though.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-OC
The above is the memory I purchased. As I poked my way through the bios I noticed something odd. One of the DIMMs has a maximum frequency of 1333mhz. No problems there. However the other one has a maximum frequency of 1066mhz.. eh?.. CPU-Z gives the same story, the DIMMs have different maximum frequencies and timings. Now the system defaults to 1066mhz so theoritically they should work fine, but I'm beginning to suspect that this difference may be the cause for my lockups.
One surefire way to lock the system up is to convert video, and somewhere along the line it will freeze. I've tried converting several of my videos and sure enough it always freezes. Swapping the DIMMs and trying to convert a movie gives the same results. I am trying with the DIMM that reports 1333mhz maximum at the moment (on it's own) to see if it manages to get through the video, if it does I'll try a few more videos.
In any case I'm wondering if it would be worth RMA'ing over the fact that the maximum frequencies and timings of the DIMMs are different and that I paid for 1333mhz memory and have been sold half short.
Also, anyone know if OCuk will directly replace them for me at the store or will I have to wait for a full RMA?
Thanks in advance ^.^
I got myself a sandy bridge setup a few months ago and all was well (ignoring the chipset issue!). However I encountered a few issues which have confused me.
I occasionally get these lockups where everything freezes and I have to hold the power button in, however these freezes occur when I am doing anything (middle of a game, just on the desktop etc.)
I've tried running memtest and orthos and both seem to run no problems.
One caveat though.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-OC
The above is the memory I purchased. As I poked my way through the bios I noticed something odd. One of the DIMMs has a maximum frequency of 1333mhz. No problems there. However the other one has a maximum frequency of 1066mhz.. eh?.. CPU-Z gives the same story, the DIMMs have different maximum frequencies and timings. Now the system defaults to 1066mhz so theoritically they should work fine, but I'm beginning to suspect that this difference may be the cause for my lockups.
One surefire way to lock the system up is to convert video, and somewhere along the line it will freeze. I've tried converting several of my videos and sure enough it always freezes. Swapping the DIMMs and trying to convert a movie gives the same results. I am trying with the DIMM that reports 1333mhz maximum at the moment (on it's own) to see if it manages to get through the video, if it does I'll try a few more videos.
In any case I'm wondering if it would be worth RMA'ing over the fact that the maximum frequencies and timings of the DIMMs are different and that I paid for 1333mhz memory and have been sold half short.
Also, anyone know if OCuk will directly replace them for me at the store or will I have to wait for a full RMA?
Thanks in advance ^.^
Their memory has been off my shopping list since early/mid DDR2 days and should've been since their PC166 days, high failure rate and probably 50/50 chance of running advertised speeds, keep giving them chance after chance but always dissapointed, have had the same issue you did with mismatched modules sold as a kit etc.. Are they still in the memory game?