Greetings all...
I have the Sniper 8GB Kit - F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR.
Bought it in November 2011, and has been flawless ever since...
Both sticks have been running at Timings CAS 8-9-8-24, for the past year without any problems...
Never once experienced a bluescreen, until just a few days ago. Something about it made me think it was either my GPU or my RAM... so I downloaded the latest Metest x86+ ver5.01 onto a bootable USB flash drive and ran some tests.
First with both sticks.
Errors almost within the first few minutes...
Then took one stick out, and left one stick in, and reran the test, and got errors IMMEDIATELY upon the test starting, almost within seconds...
Ok, so took that stick out, and put the other stick back in, and restarted the test... and after nearly 7 hours and 11 passes, no errors.
So, I can only conclude that the 1 stick is bad.
I am, rerunning the tests at default 9-9-9-24 timings just to be sure...
I've already submitted an RMA request, but I am also wondering if perhaps there is anything else I can do to test the presumably bad stick just to confirm?
For the record, I have an i5-2500K at 4.6ghz, and an ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 motherboard.
I have the Sniper 8GB Kit - F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR.
Bought it in November 2011, and has been flawless ever since...
Both sticks have been running at Timings CAS 8-9-8-24, for the past year without any problems...
Never once experienced a bluescreen, until just a few days ago. Something about it made me think it was either my GPU or my RAM... so I downloaded the latest Metest x86+ ver5.01 onto a bootable USB flash drive and ran some tests.
First with both sticks.
Errors almost within the first few minutes...
Then took one stick out, and left one stick in, and reran the test, and got errors IMMEDIATELY upon the test starting, almost within seconds...
Ok, so took that stick out, and put the other stick back in, and restarted the test... and after nearly 7 hours and 11 passes, no errors.
So, I can only conclude that the 1 stick is bad.
I am, rerunning the tests at default 9-9-9-24 timings just to be sure...
I've already submitted an RMA request, but I am also wondering if perhaps there is anything else I can do to test the presumably bad stick just to confirm?
For the record, I have an i5-2500K at 4.6ghz, and an ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 motherboard.
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