Solved RAM upgrade

[fireillusion]

Hello everyone.
Recently I have been facing a lot of BSOD problems. Yesterday I removed two sticks of my memory which you can see at me system specs (Corsair 4x2 GB XMS3 DDR3 CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) because they were an upgrade and the they had a different ver. number than the two original ones. So far so good. No BSODs.
I am thinking of buying a set of 2x4 gb vengeance low profile modules (due to the cpu cooler). My question is which color (they offer blue, black and white I think), if they will work with my M/B and if lower voltage memory (I think white ones are 1.35V) are better than 1.5V?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[bassfisher6522]

Check with your mobo manual and it's QVL to see what RAM is recommended.

 

[fireillusion]

For sure these are not listed. Although it says that they test some models and that it is impossible to test all because they are too many (fair enough). Further more these modules are newer than my mobo.
What is your opinion?
Should I go for it?
And if yes which color?

 

[Alsisgevat]

If I can give my 2cents, I personally have the low profile vengance memory dims installed,the white ones, they run great,low heat,easy to fit under any cpu cooler and depending on your config the colors are great personally if I was you,I'd go for the white,seeing as your board is light blue with spots of white,I think it will look epic. I used them and I will buy them over and over again.

 

[fireillusion]

I am pretty much convinced. It's the white ones.
I mostly play bf3 which is the most intensive job that I do. Is lower voltage going to affect performance?
Also I hope that they are compatible with my setup because I had a very difficult 6 months with bsods ( supposing that I have solved my problems)!

 

[Alsisgevat]

Don't worry about the voltage,all that means is they use less voltage then similar ram,so they can run cooler according to corsair, and you get to push a little more oc out of them, When I did my build I went for looks and performance,and these ram dims offered both.

 

[fireillusion]

Thanks.
I appreciate the help

 

[Alsisgevat]

Your welcome,if you want to make it better, I had a previous rig with a Republic of gamers board that was red and black,so it had 4 dim slots,2 red and 2 black, so I got 2 red corsair vengance dimms and two black, it matched the board perfectly,and looked epic, so you can buy 2 white at first,and see how it looks,then ither buy another 2,or get some blue ones

Anyway,when your done,post some pics of your rig in :"Show us your rig" under the section: "Overclocking and case mods" , we'd like to see how it looks.

 

[fireillusion]

Hello everyone.
So I bought my new rams 2x4 GB corsair vengeance lp white and when I set them at 1600mhz using the xmp option I get blue screens and sudden restarts.
In bios I leave everything at auto voltages etc and all processor related settings are at enable.
Any ideas?

 

[Alsisgevat]

Do you have enough power going to them? Set them to 1600 and let the motherboard auto select the voltage increase/decrease

 

[fireillusion]

The only thing I change is the xmp to profile 1. All other settings are at auto.
One thing I noticed is when I enable xmp the CPU clock drive drops from 800mv to 700mv. And the PCI express clock drive drops from 900mv to 700mv. Could this be due to the lower voltage of ram (1.35).
I really don't know which settings to mess with.

 

[Alsisgevat]

I am not familiar with gigabyte, but on my board you can select the ram speed from a list starting at 1066 up to 2300, so I just select 1600 and keep all the rest as auto

 

[fireillusion]

In gigabyte i have to select from the xmp menu the setting profile1 in order to set the speed to 1600. it also changes the volts and some other settings in bios like the ones i mentioned.
I can also set the multiplier for dram manually and all other ram settings to acieve 1600.
And i don't know how to set load line calibration (LLC) and other volt settings like qpi/vtt.........

 

[Alsisgevat]

There is a thread opened somewhere on how to overclock your ram, I am sorry but I don't know gigabyte, maybe you will get the answers there.

 

[fireillusion]

I know i will find sth in the forums for overclocking the ram.
I just discussed it because i had already opened the thread here
I will keep searching.

 

[Alsisgevat]

Good luck, and reply here or send me a pm when you got an answer.

 

[Layback Bear]

Try not using xmp and see if the bsod goes away.

 

[fireillusion]

Without xmp it works fine up to now. But this is the reason I bought them.

 

[Layback Bear]

I know, I did the same as you. Check my specs. Your i860 chip is rated by Intel at 1066/1333 and you hav 1600 ram. In my case and maybe yours XMP put the setting even faster and Bingo BSOD. No two chips are the same but with proper cooling you could problably run the ram at 1600 if you set things manualy. Your memory controler is built into the cpu if I remember correctly so watch your cpu temps.

 

[fireillusion]

Since I bought new ram I have to close this thread (I just don't know how!). Please if you have any suggestions please post at my other thread here: http://www.sevenforums.com/overcloc...x3m2a1600c9w-how-set-them-working-1600-a.html
Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience I caused.