turtletrax
Banned
Bought a Rampage V Extreme for a great price and then started looking into what tickled my fancy to build around it. Always loved Crucial RAM, and the results Mac got on his Ballistix review had me very interested. Only thing I didn't like was the price, but upon further looking I found a 16GB kit at Newegg.ca for $315 and $5 shipping, so I pounced.
After much reading I decided that the 5930k was the processor for me and picked one of those up and eagerly threw the gear in my Murderbox that was equipped with a Quad rad and ap-15's, with an EK Supremacy and dual Titans aquacomputer blocks cooling them, and a corsair AX 1200 psu powering the lot.
I easily got the system to 4.5 ghz stable, then began to overclock my memory. I read reviews and guides as it was my first time with ddr4 so came to the problem educated as far as I was concerned, but had major problems getting stable. Even with modest clocks everyone had no troubles with, I struggled. Then one day I was really close to 2750 cas 14 stable and got Qcode 79 and everything has been a nightmare since.
I would seem to get out of the issue only to be thrown back in my face and start all over again. My Ballistix would not even post at stock 2400mhz unless I enabled xmp profiles and then I would get random issues with Qcode 79, 02, and occasionally 66. I even bought a bios programmer thinking I had borked my chips. It did nothing to improve the situation.
I then tried to RMA the motherboard, but Asus would just ask me to do more tests, pull memory sticks, blah blah blah until I gave up. I bought a x99 Deluxe and low and behold the problems are the same. Now comes the question. Do you guys think it is the memory controller or the memory? I don't want to RMA the memory and have crucial say that the memory was fine and have them send them back only to have to RMA the processor, or vice versa. And don't want to send both away because that's what noobs do, and I pulled my AX 850 out of the closet and tested with it to be sure it wasn't PSU related.
Any advice would help because I am sick of spending time on this and don't really want to fork more cheddar at the problem unless I go full bore and just buy two setups.
After much reading I decided that the 5930k was the processor for me and picked one of those up and eagerly threw the gear in my Murderbox that was equipped with a Quad rad and ap-15's, with an EK Supremacy and dual Titans aquacomputer blocks cooling them, and a corsair AX 1200 psu powering the lot.
I easily got the system to 4.5 ghz stable, then began to overclock my memory. I read reviews and guides as it was my first time with ddr4 so came to the problem educated as far as I was concerned, but had major problems getting stable. Even with modest clocks everyone had no troubles with, I struggled. Then one day I was really close to 2750 cas 14 stable and got Qcode 79 and everything has been a nightmare since.
I would seem to get out of the issue only to be thrown back in my face and start all over again. My Ballistix would not even post at stock 2400mhz unless I enabled xmp profiles and then I would get random issues with Qcode 79, 02, and occasionally 66. I even bought a bios programmer thinking I had borked my chips. It did nothing to improve the situation.
I then tried to RMA the motherboard, but Asus would just ask me to do more tests, pull memory sticks, blah blah blah until I gave up. I bought a x99 Deluxe and low and behold the problems are the same. Now comes the question. Do you guys think it is the memory controller or the memory? I don't want to RMA the memory and have crucial say that the memory was fine and have them send them back only to have to RMA the processor, or vice versa. And don't want to send both away because that's what noobs do, and I pulled my AX 850 out of the closet and tested with it to be sure it wasn't PSU related.
Any advice would help because I am sick of spending time on this and don't really want to fork more cheddar at the problem unless I go full bore and just buy two setups.