Motherboard is ASRock extreme 7 gen 3
CPU is i7 2600k
I would ideally like to have 16GB
My budget is £100 - £160 and like to use [url]www.scan.co.uk[/url]
I currently have some corsair ram - 1600 ( 9-9-9-24 ) 1.65v and would like some better ram for performance reasons.
What are you doing that requires more RAM performance?
Have you ever actually hit 100% RAM usage on your computer?
The difference between 1600MHz and 1866MHz is about 1% performance and only in very specific applications.
Having more RAM than 8gb generally isn't useful unless you are doing things that are especially RAM heavy.
Beyond that, get the cheapest 1600MHz CL9 1.5v 4gb modules you can get.
This isn't going to fix your stuttering problems, it's something else, trust me.
Give your GPU a good burn test with Furmark, I seriously bloody doubt it's your RAM.
Also you only ran memtest86 for 90 minutes, you're supposed to run that for like 6-8 hours.
[editline]11th February 2012[/editline]
Also just because Prime didn't get any errors doesn't mean it's fully stable, drop down clocks and voltages to stock and try if you still get stuttering.
You said the RAM sticks said 9-9-9-24 on the label and you had them running at 9-9-9-27. Did you think of leaving them at 9-9-9-24?
Ok so I did as suggested. I'm running the ram at 9-9-9-24 and did memtest for a 5 hour period with no errors. I'm beggining to think my CPU is starting to die on me. As I foolishly was running it at 1.65v @5ghz because I was being ignorant in thinking it would be fine... Obviously I realised after 3 weeks or so that it perhaps wasn't such a good idea. I think I shall wait for ivy. That's only what?.. 2 months max?
It will be out in 2 months but you are going to have to buy a new motherboard or some other crap to make it play nice with everything
[QUOTE=jordguitar;34663413]It will be out in 2 months but you are going to have to buy a new motherboard or some other crap to make it play nice with everything[/QUOTE]
Ermm, that's not true? I think you will find that a z68 gen 3 mobo will be fine? And will just need a bios update when the time comes?.
[QUOTE=Acapon;34663490]Ermm, that's not true? I think you will find that a z68 gen 3 mobo will be fine? And will just need a bios update when the time comes?.[/QUOTE]
I tried to get rid of the buy a new motherboard bit but seemed to fail at that after looking up what type of socket it needs. Also the new processor will be like around 500-800 pounds when it comes out. Instead of throwing money at it why dont you try to do stress testing on the memory and processor
[QUOTE=jordguitar;34663535]I tried to get rid of the buy a new motherboard bit but seemed to fail at that after looking up what type of socket it needs. Also the new processor will be like around 500-800 pounds when it comes out. Instead of throwing money at it why dont you try to do stress testing on the memory and processor[/QUOTE]
There will still be 1156 or 1155 which ever it is I always forget but yeh. There will still be ivy that fits it.
That mobo should play fine with Ivy Bridge - it has the right socket and enough memory for the BIOS updates. The expected release date is April. The initial high prices shouldn't last terribly long compared to most other computer stuff.
There are no initially high prices with Ivy Bridge. They're direct replacement chips which prices that are only $10-$20 more than the Sandy Bridge ones they're replacing.
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