DotS Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I bought a Corsair Stick a few months ago, I don't know which one it is exactly, it's a 1GB DDR400 stick with 2-3-3-6 settings and a black heatspreader, looks like this one: http://www.preis-kampf.com/war/PRODIMG/PP_E_10680602.JPG At first I thought "Great, it's running", but ran into several crashes after a while (reboots/blue screens) until I set the memory to 2.5-3-3-6, as suggested here (btw. nice support with these forums and stuff :): ). I wonder why. I mean, you go out and officially buy a CL2 stick as shown on the shop homepage. The package and even the product describtions on the Corsair website don't mention any incombatibilities causing you to really have a CL2.5 stick, I'd get it if AMD CPUs were exotic, but I think every second user has got one of these. Plus my old 512 sticks (Corsair too, look the same, 2-2-2-5 DDR400, bought seperately) work fine even in dual channel mode on both mainboards (A8V Deluxe [K8T800 Pro afair] and A8N-E [nForce 4], one Winchester, one Venice). So, what exactly is it that makes an AMD system (or more accurately: my systems) unstable when you use the latencies showed on the package, sticks, official homepage etc. when using the 1024 stick, but not when using the 512s? A second small question: Ever heard of Goldmemory? It's a memtest86-like program, I was told it finds errors more quickly than memtest86. I ran it (on the better system with the nForce, Venice and 2 512 sticks for dual channel and better latency) and found 2 errors on the first pass, no error on the second one. Already tested those sticks with memtest86 and other programs a while ago, they seemed to be fine. Is Goldmemory known to be any faulty or inaccurate? Can memory sticks become faulty after a while (never overclocked)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 13, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 13, 2007 Gold Memory has too many issues/limitations to suggest in our environment! Why CAS 2.5 on AMDs? This was with AMD XP CPU MB's our Cas 2 modules should be able to run at Cas 2.0 with most AMD 64 systems. If you are having a problem with a specific MB I would need more information to trouble shoot that problem. The reason was many of the XP based MB would not reliable run at Cas 2.0 with higher density modules with a true 200 FSB AMD XP CPU's. So the setting was relaxed for these systems. And the IC fab's that were coming down the pipe were not as robust as the first DDR400 IC's a few years before when DDR400 was first introduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DotS Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 I see. I didn't know this would not apply to A64 systems, I'm a bit surprised now. Recommended voltage was 2,75V afair (the guy in the shop told me to set it all manually because the BIOS wouldn't set it correctly when set to Auto), however I can't set it that accurately, 2,7 or 2,8 only. Rather have more than less, right? Infos about the mainboard.. which would you need? It's an A8V Deluxe, I think revision 2.0 and a somewhat newer BIOS (newest? Don't know right now, but I think the newest one I would need). It's the second system which is a bit noisy, half past three here and don't wanna wake people up ;) I can get any information about the board (or anything else you want) tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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