I noticed some strange behaviour. My G.Skill DDR3 RAM ships with an XMP profile of 1600 MT/s CL9-9-9-24 at 1.5v. Its SPD rating is 1333 MT/s at 1.5v.
Even though I ran the previous memtests with XMP disabled in the BIOS, it still detected and ran the RAM at 1600 and didn't step down to 1333, and used weird timings of 9-9-9-28, so I guess it was still technically overclocked?
I removed some resistors from my Noctua fans to make them run at full speed, I swapped one stick of RAM from Channel A with one from Channel B in case my memory kits were mismatched (they came as 2x2GB and I have 8 GB total), I re-seated each stick and I manually set the memory at 1333 and latency of 9-9-9-24.
I ran another memtest for 33 hours and not a single error. Does that mean that the memory is fine and it just doesn't like to run at 1600 in my system? If the memory is now fine and I continue to see issues with parity check errors, where do I look next?
Also, when I manually set it at 1333 in BIOS and leave timings on auto, the BIOS actually wants to use something like 8-8-8-24. Should I let it do that or leave them at 9-9-9-24?
Thanks!