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> OC'ing ECC is generally a terrible idea, if that's what you're doing. How so? For example I can see when the higher summer temperatures becomes an issue and
by thulle 5y ago
> OC'ing ECC is generally a terrible idea, if that's what you're doing.
How so? For example I can see when the higher summer temperatures becomes an issue and reduce my timings, then tighten them again as it gets colder. No more random crashes where I wonder if it's my RAM or something else.
Currently doing 3333MT/s CL14 on 4x16GB of 2666MT/s ECC. I use CL16 in the summer. Since the memory sticks barely are affected by the heat, and that ECC errors occur on the same slot of the motherboard regardless of which stick is in there, I assume its the memory controller on the CPU in combination with four sticks of memory that's the limiting factor here.
- namibj 5y agoI even got my 2 32G sticks in the same channel to 3600, but it wouldn't train with antyhing better than CL28 or therabouts. I heard that's likely due to the imbalance and/or quad-rank making the memory controller unhappy, as the PHY should be agnostic to the CL setting. I mostly just did that test to check if I'd have to give up the 3600 speed if I'd upgrade from 64GB 128GB on this 5950X; I'm well aware that one shouldn't be running it single-channel, especially not if that would mean quad-rank operation.