Geil and corsair

Shlouski

Shlouski

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When i bought my P5Q-E, i put in my geil ram 4gb 800Mhz CL4 and started OCin my cpu and i just could not get past a certain fsb stable, i tried everything. I lower the ram speed, messed with the voltages and dropped it down to CL5 and still +1Mhz FSB the computer was unstable. Not even being sure it was the ram causing the problem, i put in 4gb of 800Mhz corsair CL5 and straight away, without underclocking, messing with voltages or the CL it worked. I went from 3.3Ghz unstable, to 4Ghz stable no problem, even overclocking the ram over 850Mhz. I was wondering why this could have happened?
 
1. GeIL Memory is messed up/doa/needs RMA
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2. GeIL Memory was 2T command rated and you had it set to 1T
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3. Your board just didnt like the geil memory, sometimes boards dont like higer voltage or lower voltage memories. Sometimes BIOS updates can improve memory compatibility.
 
The mem works fine i think, i used memtest with no errors and i always put the mem on T2 when overclocking and update to the latest bios, so i think it must just be the mobo does not like it. This morning i tried it in a AMD gigabyte board with the same problem. This makes me think that geil is not so good on compatibility. At the moment im liking corsair, but ive never tried, ocz, g.skill, Crucial or pny. Im guessing that corsair and kingston are top dogs.
 
I've always used Corsair in my builds and have never had any issues with it especially with motherboards that are picky about what ram they like.
 
what do you think about kingston? The small island i live on love kingston, but if i want anything else i have to order it from britain and get a friend to send it out.
 
OCin RAM

Ive just been messing with this corsair i got (4gb 800mhz CL5) and ive managed to OC it to 880mhz CL4, which i think is good. It does not work anywhere near 1066, but i was surprised when it posted at CL4, while it was already OCed 80mhz. I put the dram voltage to 2.10 from 1.90 and ran prime95 for an hour on lots a ram tests, no problems. I will try lowering the voltage when i hit it max mhz. Will this short the life of the ram? Im not bothered if it shortens it a bit, i just dont want my ram failing on me in the next few months.
 
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