Jason Weisberger wrote:
I actually have 4 gigs of gskill DDR 3 1600 and from experience I can tell you that the stock voltage on those chips is set too low. The company actually recommends that you use 1.9 volts while most motherboards will default to 1.5 or 1.6. Double check this however, because I know they were working on some JEDEC compliant DDR 3 (standard voltage of 1.5) a while back but I'm not certain if they just decided to throw in the towel on that effort. My system would crash using 1.5 but wouldn't produce any errors on memtest86+. This all just sounds too familiar.
I updated my kernel so I had to reboot. I checked the voltages and it appears to be set to 1.5. It was set to auto, when I selected manual, it said 1.5v. I don't know for sure that is what it is when it is running tho. That could just be where it starts when in manual mode. Since it is working now, I set it back to auto. Don't want there to be anything, so I ain't going to start anything either. ;-) According to gkrellm, Vcore1 is 1.39. Vcore2 is 1.52. I assume that is Vcore2.
I just bought my memory sticks in the past month or so for the last three. The first stick I got was about 2 months ago. Maybe the new ones are "improved" or something? How long you had yours?
Is there some way to check on BIOS settings while booted into Linux? I'm talking about things like timings and such. I have gkrellm set up for some stuff. Just don't see timings and such in there. Just curious tho.
Dale :-) :-)
