Game freezing up during gameplay

[whattaguy]

Hi,

I just upgraded my ram from 4, 1gig sticks of Crucial Ballistix PC26400 ram to 4, 2gig sticks of Corsair XMS2 PC28500 ram on a Gigabyte P35 DS4 v2 board.

I ran memtest and had to overvolt my ram by +.3 to match the stock rating of the ram to run memtest successfully. I thought this would take care of the issue of gameplay just freezing. The only way to get out is to force my computer to shut down. Any ideas? Incompatible RAM? Should I stick with Crucial?

My video card is an ASUS Geforce 8600GTS 256MB Silent.

Thanks.

 

[DSF]

Why DDR2-1066 on a stock-speed Q6600?

8GB of overspeed RAM is going to put a strain on just about any motherboard. You may need to raise the voltage of the memory controller in addition to the individual DIMMs to get stability.

 

[whattaguy]

I'm not an overclocker, but I can try to adjust the voltages. I didn't know that you can raise the voltages on each individual memory stick. How do I do that? Or do you just suggest I go back to PC26400 ram?

Thanks.

 

[DSF]

I didn't mean setting DIMM voltages independently of each other, I meant that you can set the voltage going to chip that controls the memory, but you can also set the voltage that goes to the sticks of RAM themselves. When you bumped the voltage by .3 that's the voltage going to the modules, not to the controller.

If you're not overclocking there's really no reason to be using anything more expensive than DDR2-800.

 

[whattaguy]

Thanks. I'll probably return the 1066 unless there's an easy way to get it stable.

 

[whattaguy]

Well, I switched back to my 4gigs of Crucial ram, and everything works fine now. I guess I'll return the DDR2-1066 Corsair and get 8gigs of DDR2-800 Crucial.

Thanks.

 

[DSF]

You still may need to up the voltage on the memory controller.

I would try running your DDR2-1066 at DDR2-800 (or lower) and up the controller voltage. Even running at stock speeds 8GB can be hard on a motherboard.

 

[whattaguy]

Thanks. I got the memory about a week ago, and I can still return it. There's no point in paying for DDR2-1066 to run it at DDR2-800 speeds.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: whattaguy
There's no point in paying for DDR2-1066 to run it at DDR2-800 speeds.

Why would you have bought memory rated twice as fast as what you need for your Q6600?
Your Q6600 only needs DDR2-667 to run at default.
There's no point in paying for DDR2-1066 if you don't need the extra speed.

Mounting "Y" speed rated tires on a Vista Cruiser won't help it run 185MPH.