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Memory issues with GA-x58-USB3

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cyber649

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I have a brand new GA-X58-USB3 motherboard. I also have 12GB of Corsair CM3x2G1600C8. I tried setting the timing and voltage settings to what Corsair says, but that doesn't help out much either. It clocks my memory down to 533MHz it looks like, which is a far cry from what it's supposed to be.

When I select the XMS profile in the BIOS. I'm able to put in to Windows 7, but getting several BSOD's. I ran memtest and right off the bat I get 178 errors. When I return the memory to stock settings, I get no errors in memtest. I also tried updating my BIOS to the latest version, but it was just to unstable.

Has anyone come across this problem before, and know what to do to resolve it. Could it be the memory is started to crater, and is why it can't do XMS? I had no issues on my old board which was a ASUS P6X58d-E.

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I had this motherboard and memory and I also got a lot of memory related BSODs in XMP. I returned the board under warranty for other issues (audio was faulty, quite common so I'm told) but before that I just set everything manually including the speed. So bclk was 200, memory multi was 8, and timings 9-9-9-24. The XMP of 8-8-8-20 might be an issue.
 
With the timings manually set to 8-8-8-24-2T, and the DRAM voltage set to 1.65V at DDR3-1600, adjust the QPI/VTT voltage from the default of 1.1-1.175V to 1.25-1.30V.
 
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