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Old 21st February, 2005, 07:13 AM
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MietmaN,

I have indeed seen similar results on my rig. Of course the fact that one memory module gave up on me made it kind of hard to make a good judgement of what's the cause of my instability. I do think there are other instability variables at work on my rig. Right now i'm suspecting my PSU and in less severity the Merlin CPC1 Bios. Reason is: I have been running dual channel 2x232 at 2-2-2-11 and primed it for more than 6 hours. No errors there. Memtest86 v.3.2 didn't detect any errors nor did the windows based memtest that i use sometimes. I then clocked somewhat higher to test and i did not find any real problems. Until i saw some voltage fluctuations and to find one of my modules to be fubar. I have seen instabilities in games as well. I ran Aquamark at 232 and at 222 mhz before the troubles began. No problems noted, just performance increase.
So MietmaN, unlike your findings, i do really suspect my PSU. Since my troubles began, the vcore has been dropping sometimes. Before it would never drop below the bios set value of 1.875v. Now all voltages are still the same with exception of the vcore to have been noted as lowest value to be 1.84v. So far it has not been unstable at settings from before my VX attempts (see sig). I also have my memory at the same settings but the booster remains.
MietmaN, do you use logfiles to be able to read lowest and highest voltage and temps? At any rate, i've bought an OCZ Modstream 520Watt Psu. If it's my current Psu that killed my VX stick i really don't want it to happen again. So i'd probably be able to test your findings for certain when i have received the VX RMA'd modules and the OCZ Psu. Of course other ppl could clarify some question marks
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