System Has a Memory Problem

OhhPaigey

Built a PC a few months ago. Got everything set up, minus one problem, setting my ram to proper speeds was causing issues, browser crashes and things like that. Eventually I just said whatever and left it on default speed which was 2133. Had no issues from here, except for the fact I paid for 32gb of 3200 ram.

The other day I decide to try it again, randomly, everything worked fine for a couple days, just now I am getting a "Critical Structure Corruption" blue screen out of nowhere. I ran a Memory Diagnostic test and it says there's a hardware issue.

I'm going to set it back to 2133 and run the test again and see if it still finds a problem, I'm assuming this really is a hardware related issue, which sucks, considering I paid nearly $600 for the ram alone.

I should add - My system is reading all 32gb of ram, which has got me wondering if the ram really is faulty.

My PC build: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/9B7Bnn

Any ideas/advice/suggestions?

Thanks yall.

Quazal.A

https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=100361034631 my passmark with minimum overclock in a system built 2years ago

To add to this, sometimes its also worthwhile doing the same with a single memory stick that your confident iss good in each slot, sometimes its the  slot not the memory stick thats faulty  


What are your timings set at?   Ensure your XMP is set and the understanding i have and reading would suggest your timings should be 16-18-18-36 on 1.35v

Dont just think of turning up the mhz and nothing else, without the timings it will bug out.

You can easily ramp upto 3466 with timings of 18-20-20-42 on the 1.35v

Just go with the 3200 timings and run that and run some tests see how that goes, let us know your feedback etc.

EDIT

Just curious why the need to Overclock, the increase from ram overclocking is Minimal at very best, the old saying is its better to buy more ram of a base speed than less ram with higher speed.
For eg.

16 gb @ 3200 is worse than 32 @ 2400 

The only real world reasoning is generally if you dont have a dedicated graphics card. 
However, as i understand it , it does help in some instances with the Ryzen CPU but that is beyond my knowledge, and im sure Quizz will be along to offer his far higher expertise.

OhhPaigey

Well I haven't crashed since this morning so idk why it crashed, maybe a fluke? If it does it again I will def look into more..

Lokero

Well, memory speeds were a pretty big fiasco with Ryzen when it launched.  Most people had a ton of trouble getting up to the advertised timings on the available RAM.

I haven't looked into that stuff in months, so I don't know how much has changed, but some RAM and Ryzen motherboard combos simply wouldn't cooperate well together.  Some companies even started rolling out high performance RAM to deal with it.  There were many BIOS updates to try and address the issue, as well.  The older, widely-available RAM on the market did not agree with early Ryzen systems.

So, if your issue happens to be that you built a Ryzen PC, I'd suggest doing some searches and visiting the AMD sub-reddit and motherboard manufacturer for RAM compatibility lists, BIOS updates(do some research before messing around with BIOS updates though), etc.

Quizzical

Your CPU only supports memory up to 2400 MHz.  Trying to clock your memory at 3200 MHz is a pretty big overclock.  While Kaby Lake CPUs (and many other Intel CPUs) are very conservative about their official memory support and commonly allow you to overclock memory far above that, it's still overclocking and your mileage may vary.

Another consideration is that you're using four memory modules, not two.  That's completely legal, of course.  But you can often clock memory higher with two modules than four, as the latter puts more stress on the memory controllers.

A third consideration is that the memory is labeled as 1.35 V, while the stock voltage for DDR4 is 1.2 V.  Corsair is assuming that you'll overvolt the memory considerably to reach the stated clock speed.  It's likely that you're already doing that, but if not, then there's the problem.

If your memory runs fine at 2400 MHz and the stock settings, then it's not "defective"; just something won't overclock as far as you'd like.  If it doesn't work at those settings, then try testing various combinations of memory modules and slots as DMKano said.  It's possible that three of your modules are completely fine and one is defective.  It's also possible but much less likely that part of the CPU memory controller or motherboard for one memory slot is defective.