Model of the motherboard: Asus M4a785-M
Model of the memory: F2-6400CL5D-4GBNT
Model of the CPU: Althon II x3 445
I just built this system and am running everything at stock speeds, and I noticed my games weren't stable. So I decided to test stability with Prime95. It fails within 10 minutes of a 'blend' test. It will run for hours on the 'small FFTs' test that doesn't test memory very much.
Pinning down what's causing it to fail has been difficult....
Over 8 hours of testing with Memtest86+ failed to return any errors
If I run the memory at 333mhz instead of 400mhz, it becomes stable
If I turn off all my cores except one it seems to become stable
If I remove my video card and start using my integrated video on the motherboard it seems to become stable (would this have any effect on the memory because now it has to use my memory for the video?)
I don't have any known good memory to swap out because my old system didn't use DDR2 memory. I'm thinking it's something memory-related just because it works rock solid at 333mhz, but is there any way to make sure? I don't want to RMA the wrong piece of equipment.
Model of the memory: F2-6400CL5D-4GBNT
Model of the CPU: Althon II x3 445
I just built this system and am running everything at stock speeds, and I noticed my games weren't stable. So I decided to test stability with Prime95. It fails within 10 minutes of a 'blend' test. It will run for hours on the 'small FFTs' test that doesn't test memory very much.
Pinning down what's causing it to fail has been difficult....
Over 8 hours of testing with Memtest86+ failed to return any errors
If I run the memory at 333mhz instead of 400mhz, it becomes stable
If I turn off all my cores except one it seems to become stable
If I remove my video card and start using my integrated video on the motherboard it seems to become stable (would this have any effect on the memory because now it has to use my memory for the video?)
I don't have any known good memory to swap out because my old system didn't use DDR2 memory. I'm thinking it's something memory-related just because it works rock solid at 333mhz, but is there any way to make sure? I don't want to RMA the wrong piece of equipment.
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