murderbymodem Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I've been running my 2000MHz ram at 1333MHz for a long while. Recently I decided that this was silly, and went into my BIOS to bump it up to 2000MHz. The only way I could find to do so was to use XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) which, at first, seemed to set everything up okay and had my system running good with the ram at 2000MHz. I even performed a few stress tests (OCCT and Prime 95) and passed long tests without any problems. However, recently while playing Starcraft 2 I have been getting random 0x00000124 Blue Screens. This is very annoying because it has caused me to lose a bunch of games that I could have won. I checked into the 0x00000124 error code, and found that it is often caused by overclocking. I then realized that by using XMP to set my memory to 2000MHz, it also slightly overclocks my processor (2.54GHz to 2.6GHz), so I tried bumping up the voltage a bit to compensate. It ran fine like that for a while, but then just a few moments ago I lost another game of Starcraft due to the 0x00000124 Blue Screen. I believe I've filled out my system specs with all the info you should need to help. Let me know if you need any more information about my system. Please help. :(: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 2000mhz is a huge overclock for your processor. It may be that it just wont run at that frequency. Did you try backing the frequency down to 1866 and see if you still get the BSOD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murderbymodem Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 I actually can't seem to find any settings to adjust the memory speed without using XMP. All I see is manual timing settings. The memory as well as my motherboard say that they are XMP compatible, so I was just figuring that the speed XMP set it to would be fine. I didn't realize CPU was a factor. :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 You may have to set them manually. Just use the timings and voltages for 2000mhz and set the frequency to 1866mhz and see if it is stable then But your CPU isn't so much a factor as the memory controller located in the cpu itself. It only supports a max frequency of 1333mhz . So to achieve higher frequency you have to overclock that memory controller. Even though the modules and the MB are compatible with XMP, it is still up to the memory controller as to whether or not it will be able to run at 2000mhz. It's basically the luck of the draw. Some CPU's overclock really well, and the one next off the line might not do so well. Some can hit 2000mhz+ and some struggle with 1600mhz*shrugs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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