Did I get the wrong memory or not enough power?

[Devonaitor]

When I bought my computer I got 2x4 of 1600 ram and have been experiencing some mem dumps when my CPU auto overclocks, I turned that off in my bios and the mem dumps stop happening but my PC is some time noticeably slow when Alt-Tabing out of games (Game will stop responding and my mouse stutters) and when starting up (I don't have a SSD so that just may be the problem), I was considering getting a new power supply thinking it was my CPU using to much Power (you maybe thinking that can't be the problem, CPU doesn't take up to much power, but I have the 9590... so yeah 220W) and realized it may be the memory.

Here is the ram I have now: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233244

And the Ram I was think about getting: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-604-_-Product

It said on the AMD website that the CPU uses 1866 and up Ram. I was wonder if that is the problem since I have 1600, and if this new ram would work for my PC and/or make it faster?


if needed here are my specs:

CPU: AMD Fx-9590
Cooler: Corsair H100i
MB: Asus Sabertooth 990fx
Ram: 2x4GB
Power supply: corsair tx850
GPU: Asus 780
Soundcard: Soundblaster ZXR
Storage: Seagate hybrid 2tb

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Usually the motherboard company will have on there site suggested compatible memory list, is your memory on there? Is the memory you want on it? Could just be the way your setting your memory up in the bios.

 

[Devonaitor]

The ram is supported for my MB, But it doesn't say anything about 2400 and higher, So I am guessing it isn't but I am still wondering if it is a lack of memory or PSU, I know 8GB of ram decent and as well as a 850w PSU but it is something that is causing this from day one of me building my PC. But I can't seem to figure it out.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

It's absolutely, definitely not your power supply, unless you have a defective unit. Power supply problems tend not to generate the issue you're describing.

It's not the RAM either. Don't waste your money on new RAM.

The hard drive may have something to do with it, but if the problem is only evident when you're alt-tabbing out of games, it may just be a software issue. Alt-tabbing tends to be a somewhat messy operation. It's hard to say without seeing just how bad the problem is.

 

[Elixer]

IMO, you can't rule out the RAM, unless you run memtest86+ on it, overnight, and see if any errors pop up.

If that is clean, then, next test CPU with Occt or prime95, have that run for a few hours, again, should be 0 errors.

If that is good, then time to stress test the HD/SSD, by copying back & forth a huge 1GB archive file, and see if it fails the CRC checks. (Use winrar or whatever, make a nice big archive (it does NOT have to compress anything), and then on the copy, select test archive.)
If that passes, then, I would run a SFC scan and see if it detected any corrupted files.
(sfc /scannow).
If that passes, then I would reinstall the OS.