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[217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f17-v6sm5199571wrs.1.2018.08.09.11.00.33 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:00:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The memory gremlin Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:00:28 +0100 Message-ID: <3999333.8RUdipszLB@dell_xps> In-Reply-To: <2c25ca7c-f2fc-9528-0d63-ef2f5edfea50@verizon.net> References: <2c25ca7c-f2fc-9528-0d63-ef2f5edfea50@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1656028.rY3yVIFWSF"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 42bd4806-5f51-4c00-887d-b64e53d649f1 X-Archives-Hash: a2fbed12448ba87297d48452f5d6dde7 --nextPart1656028.rY3yVIFWSF Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:32:33 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > [resend, list was down...] > > I've been meditating on the memory gremlin on my system... > > The ram is Corsair, 3000mhz. (never had any problem with their sticks in > any system ever.) > > Motherboard is an early release mini-ATX B350 board from Asus... > > Chip is a R7 1800X > > The pattern is: all cells test good on memcheck but occasionally there > is a bit error somewhere. I think it is a signaling issue between the > ram module and the memory interface in the cpu. > > After meditating on it, I don't think there's anything I can do about it > given the STUPID settings the BIOS goes to... The problem with the BIOS > is that it considers only what the RAM tells it, it does not take into > account that the CPU is rated at 2667mhz... Well there's the answer, > this is AMD's first product with DDR4 support, and it's not super > awesome so simply acknowledging the limitation there, and setting the > memory interface to 2666 (which is what the BIOS offers), it won't be > super fast but it damn well should work. =| Keep an eye on MoBo firmware updates, Asus are usually OK in providing updates to stabilise their chipsets, as long as the bugs are fixable in software. Also, if the BIOS offers DRAM timing settings increase the latency a notch and see if that helps. -- Regards, Mick --nextPart1656028.rY3yVIFWSF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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