Hey everyone,
I built a new rig last Thursday that includes the following pieces of hardware:
While this set of memory was not explicitly mentioned on EVGA's Official Memory Compatibility List, I had heard good things and decided to try out the kit anyways. Everything seemed to be working fine until today when I experienced a BSOD that prompted me to run Memtest 86. Under default bios configuration (memory speed 1333 mhz, 9-9-9-24 timings, 2T and 1.5v) I am experiencing a number of DIMM errors from Memtest.
I tried setting the BIOS profile to XMP Profile (which put the memory speed at 1600 mhz and I set the DIMM voltage to 1.65V) and I still received Memtest 86 errors.
My question is: Do I have defective memory or am I missing something? and if so, should I RMA for the same item or should I return the memory for something listed on EVGA's compatibility list? http://www.evga.com/support/motherboard/
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I built a new rig last Thursday that includes the following pieces of hardware:
- EVGA P55 SLI 132-LF-E655-KR
- Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz
- G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM Model F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ
While this set of memory was not explicitly mentioned on EVGA's Official Memory Compatibility List, I had heard good things and decided to try out the kit anyways. Everything seemed to be working fine until today when I experienced a BSOD that prompted me to run Memtest 86. Under default bios configuration (memory speed 1333 mhz, 9-9-9-24 timings, 2T and 1.5v) I am experiencing a number of DIMM errors from Memtest.
I tried setting the BIOS profile to XMP Profile (which put the memory speed at 1600 mhz and I set the DIMM voltage to 1.65V) and I still received Memtest 86 errors.
My question is: Do I have defective memory or am I missing something? and if so, should I RMA for the same item or should I return the memory for something listed on EVGA's compatibility list? http://www.evga.com/support/motherboard/
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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