April 29, 201214 yr Hey all, My specs are core i5 760, 4gb DDR 3 ram and a gtx 560. I've never been able to OC my CPU because for some reason it would just crash. Even at low frequency it would act strangely so I left it stock. Yesterday I realised my ram was in slot 2 rather than slot 1, and my PC seemed to be a bit faster and responding, and FSX stopped having system crashes...I thought I'd try OCing again thinking on the off chance it might work, and it did....Hardly gave it any voltage, set ram timings and had 10 passes on intel burn test (never achieved that before). Can a ram slot cause that kind of issue? Was it simply that it was in the number 2 slot?! Just curious...
April 29, 201214 yr Can a ram slot cause that kind of issue? Was it simply that it was in the number 2 slot?! I remember reading about some older mobos that you have to use specific slots (was 2 or 3 generations back). That it would cause such troubles wasn't known to me though. But I've seen a lot of strange things out there, so sure... possible it is.
May 1, 201214 yr Likely you just have a flaky DIMM slot. Modern mobos don't have restrictions on where RAM can be placed, in my experience. They do have guidelines for multi-channel operation though.
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