Spadge Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Hi. I have an Asus Striker Extreme, I installed above Corsair memory. The board has the latest (1303?) BIOS. I disabled USB legacy support for tests. Initially tested the memory in non-sli (800MHz) mode and memtest came up completely clean. Then set the memory voltage to 2.2v, Command to Clock :2, Set SLI memory to CPU 0%. Machine posts fine, detects the memory at 1067MHz, timings 5-5-5-15t. Memtest fails at test 3, at 38.7Mb, with three counts. Those errors go up at the same spot in subsequent test parts. I took out the memory and replaced it with some other PC2-8500 memory. Upped the volts to 2.3v for that make, other settings the same, memory was detected at 1067MHz, 5-5-5-15t, and memtest completed 100% with no errors. Is there a known glitch perhaps with the Corsair memory and the 1303 bios? Or do I have a module that may be bad? I hope it's not the latter, as this pair was a replacement for an identical pair that had a faulty module from the outset. Thanks in advance, Spadge. Rig main specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 @ stock speed Asus Striker Extreme 1303 BIOS Corsair CM2X1024-8500C5 (2x 1GB sticks) XFX Geforce 8800GTX @ stock speed Creative Labs X-Fi Fatality Platinum soundcard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 14, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 14, 2007 When you run http://www.memtest.org did you disable Legacy USB support in the BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spadge Posted August 14, 2007 Author Share Posted August 14, 2007 When you run http://www.memtest.org did you disable Legacy USB support in the BIOS? Yes. :-) as mentioned after the BIOS revision above. Ah, but....I used Memtest 1.65, I'll try again with 1.70 and get back to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 14, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 14, 2007 You might try and load setup defaults and set the tested settings but set the NB Core Voltage: to 1.4v. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuPReMeST Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Hello, I wonder if this Striker Extreme also works with the Dominator 10000 modules. Am I right about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 16, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 16, 2007 Yes it will work with those modules as long as you have the latest BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuPReMeST Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Thank you The latest BIOS shall be installed, but when those modules arrive, what should be the necessary steps to take for maximizing performance? I reckon to take little steps at a time or will it set itself to the proper settings (EPP profiles)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 17, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 17, 2007 Just load setup defaults and then set the memory Voltage to 2.4 Volts and set the Command Rate to 2T and set SLI Ready Memory to CPU Max should be all you need to do, but many have had problems over clocking the quad core CPU so you might not be able to run these at their tested settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuPReMeST Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 So it has a little to do with OC'ing the CPU, where I'm a novice at (never done it before). "...but many have had problems over clocking the quad core CPU so you might not be able to run these at their tested settings" Does that also goes for the new 1333MHz FSB CPU's? Because the "old" quadcores run with a 1066MHz FSB, where the memory runs at 1250MHz. Does it still need OC'ing the CPU? Or am I not getting the picture right? If so, please explain in short (OC'ing is the other forum topic I reckon?) Thank you very much for your time :): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 20, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 20, 2007 Yes and yes. As the CPU frequency is increased the memory Frequency will have to be closer to one to one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spadge Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 Sorry for the delay - other minor details like house flooding got in the way. Right, set all defaults then set the timings back up, and set the NB voltage to 1.4 as you recommended. Memtest 1.7 came up with the same errors at the same spot. :(: Modules going back to the retailer for replacement. Thanks for the help though - was worth a try. :): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 4, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 4, 2007 NP Please let me know when you get them replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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