BigBadBeef
Well-Known Member
I got a PC with 4 sticks of DDR5 RAM. Exploring social media, it would seem that this in, and of itself, appears to be a problem. It began with not being able to get neither EXPO or XMP to work with a 9800X3D, I am stuck using 5600MHz RAM at 4800MHz.
It is slowly becoming clear to me, that this particular iteration of memory is [insert foul language]. But still, this is what I've got, and this is what I need to work with.
Honestly, the RAM speed doesn't bother me too badly, but a recent turn of events have convinced me that it might be a symptom of a bigger issue. You see, my brand new (hasn't even lost the smell of fresh pc components yet) computer is experiencing what I could best call "periods" of considerable instability. We're talking about complete system freezes or straight up reboots - no kernel panic.
And I do mean periods. It will run fine for a while - days, weeks etc., but then there will be a day when the aforementioned begins to happen. The last "phase" was this past weekend, it even crashed once during me watching YouTube. So during one of those periods, I ran memtester in order to ascertain whether this was a RAM issue, and lo and behold - it started throwing out memory errors just before actually triggering one of the crashes.
Well, it's time for memtest86 and testing each stick individually. This is something I will reserve for the next weekend. In meantime, I wish to plan for the contingency that using 4 stick of RAM is the problem rather than any individual stick being defective.
I realize that there might not be anything I could do to stabilize the RAM within the Linux environment itself, my line of inquiry pertains to more like something I might be able to with RAM settings in the BIOS menu.
Speaking of which, a user I've talked to in social media claimed, that using 4 sticks of DDR5 RAM may require more voltage, and raising by 0.1mV would help stabilize it. I'd like know your opinion about his claims. I would also like to know if anyone here is using 4 sticks of DDR 5 RAM that were unstable and managed to stabilize them.
It is slowly becoming clear to me, that this particular iteration of memory is [insert foul language]. But still, this is what I've got, and this is what I need to work with.
Honestly, the RAM speed doesn't bother me too badly, but a recent turn of events have convinced me that it might be a symptom of a bigger issue. You see, my brand new (hasn't even lost the smell of fresh pc components yet) computer is experiencing what I could best call "periods" of considerable instability. We're talking about complete system freezes or straight up reboots - no kernel panic.
And I do mean periods. It will run fine for a while - days, weeks etc., but then there will be a day when the aforementioned begins to happen. The last "phase" was this past weekend, it even crashed once during me watching YouTube. So during one of those periods, I ran memtester in order to ascertain whether this was a RAM issue, and lo and behold - it started throwing out memory errors just before actually triggering one of the crashes.
Well, it's time for memtest86 and testing each stick individually. This is something I will reserve for the next weekend. In meantime, I wish to plan for the contingency that using 4 stick of RAM is the problem rather than any individual stick being defective.
I realize that there might not be anything I could do to stabilize the RAM within the Linux environment itself, my line of inquiry pertains to more like something I might be able to with RAM settings in the BIOS menu.
Speaking of which, a user I've talked to in social media claimed, that using 4 sticks of DDR5 RAM may require more voltage, and raising by 0.1mV would help stabilize it. I'd like know your opinion about his claims. I would also like to know if anyone here is using 4 sticks of DDR 5 RAM that were unstable and managed to stabilize them.
