Striker Extreme + 8500 Ballistix Tracer Don't play nice?

[CDE]

Hey Everyone :)

I have been getting some new things here and there, and just recently I have purchased the Ballistix Tracer memory PC2-8500 and a beautiful Tagan Black Pearl case...after installation of the memory and only a very slight OC, they wouldn't last more than 5-6 hours before my machine would start to slow and lock up. I took off my panel and the Ballistix was super hot. So I bought some Dominator fans and that doubled the time it took for the memory to overheat. I set it back to stock settings and it didn't help much at all. So I put my patriot back in and they are fine even though they are DDR2-800 running at 1066 with 2.3 volts...they are warm to the touch but not HOT like the Ballistix.

I have:

Asus Striker Extreme 680i
E6420 @ 3.4 - Zalman 9700
Corsair 620HX

And well, everything else shouldn't effect the memory.

Does anyone think I just got a bad batch, or is it a special Striker 680i thing? The memory looks hawt in my case, but the darn things are just too hot...even with the dominator fans blasting them...

Thanks :)

[sswilson]

Many folks seem to think that the crucial's shouldn't be given more than 2.2.

Have you tried running them a bit lower volts than your patriot ram?

It's possible that the striker overvolts the ram by default, or that it's running higher VDram than is listed in the bios.

Welcome to Hardware Canucks BTW!!!

[CDE]

Thanks!

I have tried everything from 2v-2.5v...doesn't help much. I will see about the overvolt settings as well...might try changing a few more settings, but as I said, even on stock settings they get VERY hot...

hrmm

[pullmyfinger]

I think your problem resides with the overheating of the ram. I have a pair of crucial ballistix pc6400 ram and I overclocked it to DDR2-1125 at 5-5-5-15-29. I have to put 2.3 volts to make it stable. At 2.1 volts they were already very very hot and memtest gave me alot of errors. So I put 4 pieces of double sided mounting tape and mounted a 60mm fan right on top of the ram. Now not only are they cool and fast, rest of the motherboard also saw some temperature drop. So I would recommend some kind of fan blowing on your ram, then try to put 2.5v on them. I think tracers are rated at 2.5v aren't they?