Overclocking killing my memory?

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JamesCurtis

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Hey guys, I have an e6300 on a p5b-deluxe board. The memory I'm having problems with is corsair dominator pc2-8500 ddr2-1066 memory. I overclock the system to 3.5 ghz (500 fsb) and in the p5b-deluxe I select the lowest memory setting (which oddly changes as I overclock) which is 1033mhz. I ran one orthos test for 17 hours. The next day I booted up and my dominator chip had fried. I was only able to boot after putting a different stick of memory in (RMA from corsair that they messed up). I had already had one stick go bad on me, which I was sending in for RMA. That stick went bad on me on my p5n-e sli board when I was running 500 fsb. So the summary of the story is the first stick of the 2GB pair went bad on the p5n-e sli board. The p5n-e sli board went bad shortly thereafter, and now I have a p5b-deluxe board and when I ran it at 500 fsb for a test, it ran stable for 17 hours, then when it was idling over night it failed and the computer never booted with that memory again.

I'm running the memory at 2.25v, which is .05 higher than rated, which doesn't seem like much. Will I need to get the fan to cool these off? They don't seem very warm to the touch, but they sure aren't handling the overclock very well.

Thanks :)
 
I think some high performance memory manufacturers that are taking DDR2-667 memory, over volting it and then reselling it as DDR2-800 or DDR2-1000 are having some RMAs after a few months.

JamesCurtis: which oddly changes as I overclock

That's how the 965 chipset is designed to work. You set a memory multiplier and then as the FSB goes up, the memory speed goes up as well. They can not be individually locked on the P5B Deluxe like they can on some of the newer nVidia boards.

Maybe you just had some bad luck. One of my Micron D9 modules is in for replacement for the same reason as yours. I might stick with the low 800 speed range instead of over 1000 when I get my new one in. Not a big difference in performance and likely better reliability. The RMA process is a pain in the ass.
 
You should be able to choose unlinked in the BIOS option which you can be able to set your own ram timings rather than let the board do it.
 
Phuey said:
You should be able to choose unlinked in the BIOS option which you can be able to set your own ram timings rather than let the board do it.
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You can run unlinked on a board with the nVidia chipset but this is not an option on a P5B Deluxe with the Intel 965 chipset.
 
So the summary of the story is the first stick of the 2GB pair went bad on the p5n-e sli board. The p5n-e sli board went bad shortly thereafter, and now I have a p5b-deluxe board and when I ran it at 500 fsb for a test, it ran stable for 17 hours, then when it was idling over night it failed and the computer never booted with that memory again.
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This makes me wonder if the failing MOBO damaged the memory and caused both sticks to fail.

Also, what was your issue with your RMA?
 
They sent me xms2 ddr2-1066 to replace my dominator. I was immediately unable to reach my 500 fsb with the xms2 ddr2 memory
 
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