Final check-- Defective PC4200?

[Chowdy]

Okay i've got 2 sticks of OCZ PC4200 Perf. Series, and i had trouble getting high FSB's. You'd think that it was the mobo, but even at, say, 220 FSB, i got memory errors. Meaning, WC3 would crash out saying that it could not read and/or write to memory. And the real kicker, memtest gave me errors. Not thousands of errors. When switching in my Samsung PC2700 TCB3's @ PC3200, 2.8V, i got no errors.

The question is, is this RAM defective, or just not liking my system? I've heard of times where rAM just... doesn't like your mobo for some reason. So has anyone ran these, or sticks with the same chips (Hynix D5 probably). Thanks.

[flapperhead]

could be a def stick.. also how hi will ur mb&cpu oc?

[Chowdy]

could be a def stick.. also how hi will ur mb&cpu oc?

What do you mean? If you mean a "useful overclock", not very high at all. At 230FSB, memtest errors. It was at timings specified for DDR533, and at even DDR460 it couldn't pass. My Samsung DDR333@DDR400 passes jsut fine too... :bang head

[veryhumid]

Just for fun: You have them in the right slots if they are dual channel? Have you tried swapping slots? Is SPD detecting the right timings?

[kiyoshilionz]

Well I've got 250mhz RAM and it's only running at 240mhz, but it's still definetly not defective, it passed Memtest. It's not unusual to get high-speed RAM to run at its rated speed, but it is pretty bad that you are getting Memtest errors. So I can't really say whether or not it's bad, but it's just that my RAM won't even go to it's rated speed.

[hooah]

the OCZ was at 2.8V as well right?

[flapperhead]

What do you mean? If you mean a "useful overclock", not very high at all. At 230FSB, memtest errors. It was at timings specified for DDR533, and at even DDR460 it couldn't pass. My Samsung DDR333@DDR400 passes jsut fine too... :bang head



What i meant is to test the mb with ur other memory at say 3/2 and see if the cpu will overclock to 250.. if it does then try checking each stick seperately cause most probably the memory...

[mrspec3]

I would guess it's your motherboard. In most cases the high speed high latency ram doesn't run well at all on AMD XP boards other than maybe the DFI ones. I would say sell the ram to someone with a P4 setup and grab some LL ram like the pc3500EB

Steve