I think I fried my 4g of memory OC'ing the CPU!!!

ashdavid · 02-12-2008, 05:15 AM

I think I fried my 4g of memory when trying to OC for the first time.

I am having it checked out now. Any other goods tips for OC'ing apart from what is in the stickies?

reddevil6 · 02-12-2008, 08:50 AM

try an buy the fastest ram your MOBO will support say 1066 even know the CPU can only run 800 thats 266MHz of ram to OC B4 u really OC your ram.
buy heat spreaders an put them on your ram.
an a good airflow thats about all that is not said in the stickys

nexolus · 02-12-2008, 09:26 AM

frying RAM is really hard. what makes you think it's fried? what freq are they and what did you clock them to

**Archangel** · 02-12-2008, 11:34 AM

Unless you upped the voltage of the RAM, i dont think its fried. too high frequenties only result in 'jibberish' comming from the ram, but it doesnt increase the average effective voltage through the RAM enough to fry it (as far as i know)

anyways, you can try downloading memtest ( www.memtest86.com ), burn the .ISO on a cd, and put the cd into the pc on startup (before it loads your OS, ofcourse, make sure the cd/dvd drive is the primary boot device then) memtest takes a wile to run, but it'll show if and how much errors your ram produces. (and if your ram is really blown, you'll most likely see the errors comming right away)

ashdavid · 02-12-2008, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddevil6

try an buy the fastest ram your MOBO will support say 1066 even know the CPU can only run 800 thats 266MHz of ram to OC B4 u really OC your ram.
buy heat spreaders an put them on your ram.
an a good airflow thats about all that is not said in the stickys

I have DDR2 800 with heat spreaders and the MOBO is Formula striker 2 board which can handle 1066.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nexolus

frying RAM is really hard. what makes you think it's fried? what freq are they and what did you clock them to

I took the PC into my local dealer and they confirmed my thoughts, I was thinking of upgrading to 1066 RAM anyway, but thats is not the point. I did something wrong and unless I find out what I did I will probably do it again. I am going to re-read the stickies and do some more research.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archangel

Unless you upped the voltage of the RAM, i dont think its fried. too high frequenties only result in 'jibberish' comming from the ram, but it doesnt increase the average effective voltage through the RAM enough to fry it (as far as i know)

anyways, you can try downloading memtest ( www.memtest86.com ), burn the .ISO on a cd, and put the cd into the pc on startup (before it loads your OS, ofcourse, make sure the cd/dvd drive is the primary boot device then) memtest takes a wile to run, but it'll show if and how much errors your ram produces. (and if your ram is really blown, you'll most likely see the errors comming right away)

I will download that on my laptop and give it a go, thanks for the info, it really helps.

02-12-2008, 05:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
ashdavid Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 110	I think I fried my 4g of memory OC'ing the CPU!!! I think I fried my 4g of memory when trying to OC for the first time. I am having it checked out now. Any other goods tips for OC'ing apart from what is in the stickies? __________________ I on a Japanese Vista OS. So I apologize in advance for my stupid and noob type questions. Last edited by ashdavid; 02-12-2008 at 05:19 AM.

02-12-2008, 08:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
reddevil6 Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Australia Age: 16 Posts: 1,180	try an buy the fastest ram your MOBO will support say 1066 even know the CPU can only run 800 thats 266MHz of ram to OC B4 u really OC your ram. buy heat spreaders an put them on your ram. an a good airflow thats about all that is not said in the stickys __________________ (1) GA-MA770-DS3 - AMD 6000+ @3.33GHz - WD SE16 2x500G - ASUS 9800GTX+ @820 - 2036 - 2350 - Apacer 2x2G DDR 800 @953MHz - Thermaltake Soprano RS100 full tower - Coolmaster extrema power duo 650W - 3DMARK06 12256 (2) GA-81945P-G-RH - Pentium D 945 (3.4GHz) had it @4.42 GHz - SATA 3.0G 1x250G 2x500G - ASUS 3850 - 3G DDR 533 - Topower 750W - 50''(127CM) 1080P 1920x1080 plasma - 3DMARK06 7250.

02-12-2008, 11:34 AM	#4 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 21 Posts: 8,257	Unless you upped the voltage of the RAM, i dont think its fried. too high frequenties only result in 'jibberish' comming from the ram, but it doesnt increase the average effective voltage through the RAM enough to fry it (as far as i know) anyways, you can try downloading memtest ( www.memtest86.com ), burn the .ISO on a cd, and put the cd into the pc on startup (before it loads your OS, ofcourse, make sure the cd/dvd drive is the primary boot device then) memtest takes a wile to run, but it'll show if and how much errors your ram produces. (and if your ram is really blown, you'll most likely see the errors comming right away) __________________ Newton is dead, Einstein is dead, I don't feel very well either Xfire - Mirrari Intel Q6600 ( @3.6GHz) Asus Triton 79 Amazing 549/3200 4x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR800 Asus Maximus Formula Asus & Sapphire HD3870 512Mb ( 850/1180 ) Corsair HX620W PSU

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02-12-2008, 09:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
nexolus Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 472	frying RAM is really hard. what makes you think it's fried? what freq are they and what did you clock them to