Gskill Trident DDR2-1066 problems...

Damascus

Damascus

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Just put together this new system - (in sig), and I purchased this memory, which is supposed to run at 1066, at [email protected]. As soon as I put the system together, I left the timings on auto, set the freq to 533, and installed XP MCE. Everything was alright till the first couple boots, and I kept getting those stupid "registry error - windows had to fix a registry entry" or whatever - like you get when you overclock too high...
I tried a game, CoD : WaW to be precise, and as soon as the game started, it would kick me back to the desktop after about 30 sec. to 5 minutes of play...
I rebooted, upped the voltage to 2.1v, same problem.
Rebooted, dropped the freq down to DDR2-800, and all is fine and stable.
This is 2 x 2GB sticks...
As of now, I've left it alone, I've been working doubles all week, and haven't had the time/patience to set down and fight with it - but now I'm off for the weekend and I'd like to get this thing running at top speed!
Thanx in advance for any help!

EDIT: Also, this is the exact memory I am using:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231270

Also, for GAMING purposes, I care nothing for benchmarking or OC'ing, should I run in Ganged or UnGanged mode?? Thanx!! :good:
 
Damascus said:
Just put together this new system - (in sig), and I purchased this memory, which is supposed to run at 1066, at [email protected]. As soon as I put the system together, I left the timings on auto, set the freq to 533, and installed XP MCE. Everything was alright till the first couple boots, and I kept getting those stupid "registry error - windows had to fix a registry entry" or whatever - like you get when you overclock too high...
I tried a game, CoD : WaW to be precise, and as soon as the game started, it would kick me back to the desktop after about 30 sec. to 5 minutes of play...
I rebooted, upped the voltage to 2.1v, same problem.
Rebooted, dropped the freq down to DDR2-800, and all is fine and stable.
This is 2 x 2GB sticks...
As of now, I've left it alone, I've been working doubles all week, and haven't had the time/patience to set down and fight with it - but now I'm off for the weekend and I'd like to get this thing running at top speed!
Thanx in advance for any help!

EDIT: Also, this is the exact memory I am using:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231270

Also, for GAMING purposes, I care nothing for benchmarking or OC'ing, should I run in Ganged or UnGanged mode?? Thanx!! :good:
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Since your running 1066. Phenoms memory controller does not like anything above DDR2 800 with 2 sticks in one channel.

Put one stick in the first yellow slot and the second stick in the first black slot. Set to Unganged mode, seems to run alittle more stable. See if it runs stable that way.
 
Well, my board, the ASUS M4A78 Plus doesn't have typical memory slots... my last (3) boards were DFI LanParty Nforce based boards (which I wish I'd have stuck with), which were color coated... On this board, according to the manual, my 2 sticks are in slot 1 and 2, whereas usually for dual channel mode you'd want them in slots 1 and 3 or 2 and 4... but this board is different. According to CPUz, I am running dual channel Ganged mode. I set it to UnGanged and played a little FarCry 2 - but for some odd reason, the game seemed smoother and more fluid in Ganged mode?? Perhaps games prefer raw power rather than multi-tasking power...?
Thanx for the help!
I'm almost to the point of just buying myself a GOOD AM3 mobo with DDR3 support, stick my PII X4 955 in it, then getting a cheaper AM2+/AM3 CPU for this Asus board and use this as a spare...
I'll keep tweaking and see if I can get it to run stable in 1066...
BTW, for gaming, wouldn't Ganged mode be better (allowing all 4 cores to all simultaneously access both channels @ 128 bits) rather than UnGanged (where each individual core can access each channel @ 64 bit)???
I need to figure out the details on this Un/Ganged crap! lol
 
Ganged mode is faster for singlethreaded programs,but as stranglehold said, you can be more stable if your running in unganged mode.
 
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Damascus said:
BTW, for gaming, wouldn't Ganged mode be better (allowing all 4 cores to all simultaneously access both channels @ 128 bits) rather than UnGanged (where each individual core can access each channel @ 64 bit)???
I need to figure out the details on this Un/Ganged crap! lol
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The only difference in unganged and ganged. Ganged acts as a single 128 bit controller. Unganged acts as two 64 bit memory controllers. You get the same bandwidth either way. The more threaded the program is, the more Unganged works better. But there is just a small % point that one wins over the other anyway.

You still need to put one stick in the yellow and one in the black slot .
 
Did you read the motherboard book, some Asus motherboards * has this in it to say that will only do 1066 single channel mode, with AMD chips. This is what I got from the manual after looking it up. (Due to the AM2+ CPU Limitation, Only one DDR2 1066 Dimms are installed, all Dimms run at 800 mhz freq. by default for system stability).
 
As far as I can tell, my mobo's manual states that it should run up to DDR 1200+ in DC mode...
I tried again running in 1066, upped the voltage to 2.2v, set the timings to 6-8-8-9-48-2T, so loose that any OC should work... and XP MC boots fine, no registry errors, but as soon as I start Far Cry 2, rather than getting kicked back to the desktop as with CoD:WaW, this time the PC rebooted itself.
Apparently I have a crappy mobo, crappy memory, or both.
No matter, I'm going to order a REAL AM3 mobo with DDR3 and use this mobo/RAM to build a cheaper Phenom system to sell.
Right now I'm running it at 936mhz, 5-5-5-15 @ 1.85v... anything faster than that won't game :( no matter if I up the voltage :(
Looks like I just paid $66 for some pretty looking DDR2-800 with tight timings and low voltage...
I do have a setting in my BIOS for ECC... when I run CPUz, it shows JEDEC speeds for 667 and 800, but for 1066 is says ECC instead of JEDEC... should I use some sort of ECC setting??
 
I've never really had any problems with GSkill memory. Mine defaulted to 400 with 1.8V and 5/5/5/15 timing. I had to manually set mine to 533 with 2.0V at 5/5/5/15, runs just fine.
 
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