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Does OCing CPU make RAM unstable?

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I OC'ed my phenom 970 to 4 GHz with a couple of G.Skill sticks spec'd at 1.5-1.6V 1600 9-9-9-24-2T but running at 1066 9-9-9-24-2T 1.5V for the sake of stability. I swapped out my G.Skills with Kingstons of the same exact specs (changed from 2 to 4GB sticks) and same settings, and all of a sudden my motherboard didn't enjoy posting - by that I mean save&exit bios would hang, restart hangs, then another restart would post & boot... weird. Setting the RAM to stock didn't help, but somehow when I restored the CPU to stock settings, the computer booted with no problems. The kingstons are certified for the board and both sets of sticks pass memtest.

So can overclocking the CPU mess with RAM stability? Why would it?
 
Did you try setting your cpu-nb voltage to 1.3-1.4v? Had to do 1.4v on 2 of my Phenom II's to get them stable with 3.6Ghz+ OC and 8GB of 1600 ram.
 
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