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Choosing your RAM: PC3 10666 or 8500?

gaston dumont Posted messages 8 Status Member -  
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Hello everyone,

I've been struggling to detect a failure that's causing
blue screens at any moment, and I've come to the conclusion that it comes from my RAM sticks.

A small detail is that my old ones are OCZ DDR3 PC3 10666 2GB, and when I was reordering, I made a mistake and ordered 8500 2GB.

What is the difference between the two, and can I use them anyway?

I'm running XP Pro with a Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR.
Thanks in advance.

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    epango Posted messages 37195 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   Ambassadeur 4 270
     
    There must be 2 models, one with DDR2 and the other with DDR3. As for the frequencies, did you confuse the designations PC8500 which corresponds to DDR3 1066MHz and PC10600 which corresponds to DDR3 1333MHz?

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  2. gaston dumont Posted messages 8 Status Member 1
     
    Yes, completely. I saw "gold edition" as the reference for my old memory and took it without paying attention to that "detail."
    From what I've been told, the 8500 will be slower but, on the other hand, they'll be more stable.
    I ran a memtest with the bootable software on the new 8500 sticks and it indicates errors. I feel like there's something else going on...
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  3. derby64 Posted messages 4884 Status Member 269
     
    Hi,
    The weird thing is that DDR3 is incompatible with your motherboard.
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  6. Anonymous user
     
    Hi

    You have errors with MemTest on the PC3-8500 sticks, and if you use these sticks, as long as the timings match those of the 10600, at best your RAM will run at 1066MHz instead of the previous 1333MHz. Request an exchange.

    What is this invention that 1066MHz would be more stable than 1333MHz? Where are you getting this from?
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  7. epango Posted messages 37195 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   Ambassadeur 4 270
     
    What I wanted to make you understand is that the same memory sticks can be presented in two ways. For example, DDR3 1066MHz can be marketed under the commercial name PC8500, even though it is the same product.

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    1. Anonymous user
       
      And it's true that one could confuse PC-10666 and 1066MHz in haste.
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    2. epango Posted messages 37195 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 270
       
      In general, there are PC10600 that correspond to DDR3 1333MHz, but not PC10666 since they round up. In my opinion, he must have made a mistake.
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    3. Anonymous user
       
      There are indeed both, 10600 and 10666, which corresponds to +/- the bandwidth in MB/s, but both are 1333MHz.
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  8. gaston dumont Posted messages 8 Status Member 1
     
    When I called the supplier for a possible refund, it was him who told me that this model (the OCZ 10666 Gold Edition) could be a factor of instability for my hardware and that the 8500s would potentially reduce this risk. However, he said that if they didn’t work for me, I could return them anyway.
    For now, my computer is no longer giving me blue screens...
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    1. Anonymous user
       
      Ok, I had understood that the PC3-10600 models in general were less stable than the PC3-8500 ^^
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