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this july I built a new system and opted to use those rams, they look great when paired to my MSI x99s gaming 7 and everything worked without a hitch, until a couple of weeks ago.
When I started my computer after a night off, the first time it would shut off some seconds later, then reboot to display a message informing me the overclocking had failed. It would then proceed to work fine.
Just last week, bugged by having this issue with my new system I decided to test the ram. Downloaded memtest 86 ran it and the ram was showing lots of errors.
I decided to dig this further and ran extensively (a 1000% pass) HCI memtest who reported no errors whatsoever, tried superPi 32m as well and my computer is happily capable of clearing that without problems.
So, I decided to ran again, multiple times memtest86. This time there were no errors. I must have ran the test 30 times to confirm the results and each time the modules passed with flying colors. I reached the conclusion that if HCI memtest passed, superpi 32m passed and now memtest86 passed multiple times, the first time it must have been some kind of false positive and I was in the clear.
Couple days after this extensive ram testing, my pc systematically refuse to boot, with the failed overclocking message appearing after each time. The only solution is to turn off the XMP profile for the rams, point in which they will work without problem. Further testing showed that the modules will boot up until 2600mhz but no more. I tried to test one module at the time in various slots to no avail. Could I have damaged the modules by stressing them too much?
this july I built a new system and opted to use those rams, they look great when paired to my MSI x99s gaming 7 and everything worked without a hitch, until a couple of weeks ago.
When I started my computer after a night off, the first time it would shut off some seconds later, then reboot to display a message informing me the overclocking had failed. It would then proceed to work fine.
Just last week, bugged by having this issue with my new system I decided to test the ram. Downloaded memtest 86 ran it and the ram was showing lots of errors.
I decided to dig this further and ran extensively (a 1000% pass) HCI memtest who reported no errors whatsoever, tried superPi 32m as well and my computer is happily capable of clearing that without problems.
So, I decided to ran again, multiple times memtest86. This time there were no errors. I must have ran the test 30 times to confirm the results and each time the modules passed with flying colors. I reached the conclusion that if HCI memtest passed, superpi 32m passed and now memtest86 passed multiple times, the first time it must have been some kind of false positive and I was in the clear.
Couple days after this extensive ram testing, my pc systematically refuse to boot, with the failed overclocking message appearing after each time. The only solution is to turn off the XMP profile for the rams, point in which they will work without problem. Further testing showed that the modules will boot up until 2600mhz but no more. I tried to test one module at the time in various slots to no avail. Could I have damaged the modules by stressing them too much?
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