Dimm Slots

[enaberif]

I'm gonna assume the answer here is yes, but can you damage your dimm slots from overclocking?

I pushed my ram from 400mhz to 430mhz and my cpu from 3.0ghz to 3.5ghz and it seems no matter how good the memory is that I get memory errors on error free ram.

I am planning on getting a new system, but I was wondering if the life of this board was coming to a end.

[Babrbarossa]

I would guess that unless you were overvolting as well, then it was nothing you did to burn out the dimm slots

[Deathspawner]

As Babrbarossa said, overvoltage could do it, but not extra frequency. Especially 400 > 430... that's a seriously minor difference.

Errors could be caused from dust though. I'd take the modules out and wipe the contacts with a fine, clean cloth, or your clean fingers. Use canned air to spray out the DIMM slots. Then see if the problem continues.

[sswilson]

If it's an AMD proc it's possible that overclocking could damage the on-chip memory controller, but while I've come across a few folks who've lost their OC ability over time, I can't remember any case of them not being able to at least return to stock speeds.

I'd bet that one of your advanced mem settings got foobarred.