So this summer I got a P5W DH and an E6600. Along with that, I got a 2 gig DDR2-800 OCZ Gold kit. That kit was running at default voltage/timings (DDR2-667) just fine... Nothing is overclocked.
Then I upgrade to 1707 BIOS. A few days later, finally have time to play games... BSODs galore. Upgrading to NVIDIA beta driver fixed that. Then, in the last two days, two BSODs in non-gaming situations. Fed up, I boot up a Knoppix CD, run memtest86. Boom, bad RAM. I try bumping up voltage to 2.0V; same result. Call OCZ, dude suggests going up to 2.2V. Same result once it reaches memtest86 test #6. RMA process begins.
Meanwhile, go to the neighbourhood computer stores, buy 2 Kingston DDR2-667, which work fine. $270 later... back in business. (Well, except that changing PS/video card in another box killed 512 megs of DDR there... see my thread in the support forum.)
Any idea what happened? Random bad luck? Or something else?
And why is there no real non-overclocker 1.8V DDR2-800 on the market?
Then I upgrade to 1707 BIOS. A few days later, finally have time to play games... BSODs galore. Upgrading to NVIDIA beta driver fixed that. Then, in the last two days, two BSODs in non-gaming situations. Fed up, I boot up a Knoppix CD, run memtest86. Boom, bad RAM. I try bumping up voltage to 2.0V; same result. Call OCZ, dude suggests going up to 2.2V. Same result once it reaches memtest86 test #6. RMA process begins.
Meanwhile, go to the neighbourhood computer stores, buy 2 Kingston DDR2-667, which work fine. $270 later... back in business. (Well, except that changing PS/video card in another box killed 512 megs of DDR there... see my thread in the support forum.)
Any idea what happened? Random bad luck? Or something else?
And why is there no real non-overclocker 1.8V DDR2-800 on the market?
