I took my own advice.

[Ste]

So I had always wondered to myself, why reguardless of the settings, my overclock was never stable, why Crysis or other games would error out sometimes. I simply thought I hadn't found the right combination of voltages yet..

I was wrong..


I decided to run memtest..
And, well.......



















Ten Thousand Errors In UNDER three minutes!!!!!
So yea, to test whether its my board or the memory I am going to throw in some different memory and try again...

But, yea, I nearly died a few times over..

 

[Ste]

So I ran the other memory and it returned no errors in the same amount of time.

So yea, new memory time..
Crucial tracers..
Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
If no other suggestions.

 

[Merkwürdigeliebe]

I have a pair of those and I'm loving them. There's not only the LEDs on top, but a glow on the bottom, sort of like under souped up cars. Great looking RAM with the legendary performance of the Ballistix series

Good luck man!

 

[Nukem]

maybe...

Newegg.com - pqi 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

 

[Ste]

What would you guys reccommend if I wanted DDR2 1000?

Now that I know it was my Memory causing all the problems I am sure if my Q6600 can hit 3.7 Ghz why not 3.8 or even 3.9 Ghz?
I don't want my memory to be overclocked at all, I want it to run below it designed Speed..

This one I guess?
Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

 

[PRVRT]

Those look very nice. For running under their stock speed, I think those would be an excellent choice. I think you should be able to get a nice OC with those and also a low memory timing as well. I finally got 3.5GHz stable on mine. Been watching your test here and decided to check mine. Kinda hard to check 4GB in windows, but what I did check is fine. Trying the memtest86 later. Which memtest did you use?

 

[veedubfreak]

Ste...buy the pc6400 tracers. All they do is loosen the timings so they have a faster clock then charge you double the price. Regular tracers are 4-4-4-12 rated and will easily run 1066. Mine run at 4-4-3-8 timings all the way up to 950 mhz.

BTW what memory were you running that had the errors.

 

[atomic tofu]

what if all that oc'ing f'd your ram? lol

 

[Ste]

Those look very nice. For running under their stock speed, I think those would be an excellent choice. I think you should be able to get a nice OC with those and also a low memory timing as well. I finally got 3.5GHz stable on mine. Been watching your test here and decided to check mine. Kinda hard to check 4GB in windows, but what I did check is fine. Trying the memtest86 later. Which memtest did you use?

Its not an in windows Test, its Memtest86+, its a self boot CD.

Ste...buy the pc6400 tracers. All they do is loosen the timings so they have a faster clock then charge you double the price. Regular tracers are 4-4-4-12 rated and will easily run 1066. Mine run at 4-4-3-8 timings all the way up to 950 mhz.

BTW what memory were you running that had the errors.

Hrmm, makes sense, ok then..

what if all that oc'ing f'd your ram? lol

No, The test was the RAM running at it's designed Speeds, the RAM was never overclocked more than 50 Mhz, so I REALLY doubt it.

 

[veedubfreak]

From what i've read the only real way to kill memory is by owning a 680i board (for serious) or putting too much voltage through them. Havent heard of memory dying just from being oc'd.

Ste what kind of memory was it mang.