My conroe is a freakin disater

[powerandrubber]

I put together a new E6600 system with a MSI P965 NEO-F board and (2) CORSAIR VALUE SELECT VS1GB533D2 modules, new HD with fresh install of everyting. Nothing but crashes for a week now. I get a "memory heap error" in the vray feedback window. I ran memtest and indeed got errors on one of the modules. I exchanged the module for a new one and am getting errors again both in memtest and the vray feedback window. Even if I take the bad module out basically every time I load a max file I have to close viz, restart it and then load the file or it crashes. Sometimes I have to reboot to get a max file to open. Does anyone have any ideas before I pitch this thing and go back to my X2? Are the value select modules crap? Please help!

[percydaman]

i would just go with a new ram manufacturer. Just get one stick of something running without errors, to prove that it is indeed isolated solely to memory.

[jujubee]

I've had bad luck with Corsair Value Select series. RAM is one thing not to be cheap with... Also, make sure your pairs timing matches up.

[powerandrubber]

Thanks for listening to my rant. I definitly won't go cheap on ram again. Although I just found that memory isn't the problem because I can repeat the problem on another computer. Turns out that it's viz2007. I'm reverting back to viz4 and it's working flawlessly!

[Dman3d]

I had a problem with my MSI K9N Platinum, there is an issue with
networking and burning CD's/DVD's causing system shutdowns
had to RMA but its working fine now

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p...Neo-F&class=mb

excerpt:
Support Dual Channel DDR2 533/677/800MHz and up

Due to the High Performance Memory design, motherboards or system configurations may or may not operate smoothly at the JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) standard settings (BIOS Default on the motherboard) such as DDR2 voltage, memory speeds and memory timing. Please confirm and adjust your memory setting in the BIOS accordingly for better system stability.
Example: Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 PC6400 operates at 2.0V, 4-4-4-12.
For more information about specification of high performance memory modules, please check with your Memory Manufactures for more details.

may want to look at the memory link for kingston for recommendations
of course they push the higher end stuff

[natty]

hey Mitch ...

all that aside, how do the new chips perform compared to amd's ? ive got 4 E6600 systems on order ...

[powerandrubber]

The chips perform well but I do still like my amd X2s. Dman3d I saw the note on MSIs website and made sure the memeory was comaptible before ordering. I also went into the bios and manually set voltage etc. to 1.8v 4-4-4-12 as the memory is speced. I completeley rebuilt my scene and discovered that viz2007 seems to have issues with vray proxies in bounding box mode. Anyone else experience this? Very few problems since switching the proxies to preview mode.

[jujubee]

I've had bad luck setting various mobos memory to specific timing values. From my experience, it's often best left to auto. If you add more memory or change it later on, sometimes it helps to reset the BIOS to default again as I've seen computers slow down for not redetecting newer memory chips.