Help with Freezing & Restarting PC

[droscoe]

Ok, well I’m still having crashes even with the new UPS I bought.

Are there any other considerations we should make before I purchase a new PSU?

Thanks for help so far. Very helpful!

[droscoe]

I’m looking at Speccy and I’m confused as to why it says my DRAM Frequency is 1064.1 MHz?

I have in my BIOS loaded up XMP profile for DDR-2400, so shouldn’t Speccy say around 2400MHz?
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[Bruce]

I’ve got 2400 RAM and Speccy reports 1200 - it’s always half (or there-abouts) based on the following excerpt that I’ve kept for reference cause it explains it better than I can.

DDR memory speeds

“Like the ticking of a clock, each tick represents a single hertz or cycle (the opening and closing of a transistor gate in this case).
A speed of 1Hz, for example, is one cycle per second; 2Hz is two per second; a MHz is 1,000,000 cycles per second; you get the picture.
The problem is when DDR (or double data rate) RAM came on the scene, it changed how data transfers were registered. Instead of only actuating once on the rise of each clock cycle, it could now also process an additional operation on the fall of that same clock cycle, effectively doubling the rate at which the DIMM could process data.
The figure for accurate measurement of data transfer requests then shifted from MHz to MT/s to adjust for this change, despite the fact that memory still operated at the same frequency.
However, marketing apparently didn’t get that memo, because many companies, in a bid to tout it as the next big thing, ignored the MT/s figure, instead referring it as MHz, while modern day memory quoted at 2,400MHz, for instance, only operates at half that frequency.”
APC Mag, Apr 2018, Issue 453

[phillpower2]

The serial presence detect speed of your RAM is 2133MHz which is what the BIOS detects and 2400MHz is what the RAM has been tested and proven to be stable by the manufacturer, dual channel means 2 Xs 1064.1 MHz which = 2128.2MHz which is slightly less than what it should be.

Regarding the wall socket, is the socket that you are using now in the same room or if not in the same room is it on the same floor in the building.

A UPS is always a good idea and especially where there is a known mains power problem and/or there are regular brown outs.

Sorry to hear that the UPS has not helped but being honest swapping in a known good a PSU should have come before the UPS, even if it was only a borrowed one for testing purposes, any power coming from the UPS has to go through the present PSU to get to the hardware which sorry to say you would have been advised if you had answered the question that was asked in my reply #15.

[phillpower2]

Any update droscoe?

[phillpower2]

Any update for us? This thread will be closed if not replied to within 48hrs.