16 GB Ram issue - IMC or Board

[Kinesis]

Based on the issues I had previously posted and in this posts here or here I am wondering how would you know or determine that it truly is the IMC or the motherboard that is defective?

Basically what I am getting at is how would I know to even go an request and RMA for the board or RAM?

Any guidance would be appreciate thanks.

 

[Shmee]

If you are getting errors with some sticks at stock settings, sounds like the RAM is the culprit. (what I gathered from the first thread)

Continue with your corsair RMA, if that doesnt solve it, I would do some tests on the CPU with the RAM that does work.