TestMem5 + Memtest86 erroring.

JuzNZ · October 11, 2021

Hi all,

Long time Linus lurker, new forum member. Always found Linustechtips vids so helpful so figured the community would be as well and might be able to point me in the right direction.

Brief rundown of my system specs and then ill get into the issue:
Z490-E Gaming MB Bios version - Version 2301 2021/07/24

TUF 3070

i7 10700K

Corsair RM850

Previous RAM - 16GB (2x8) Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz CL18

New RAM - G.Skill Trident Z Neo RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL18

OS Windows 10 Home 10.0.19043 Build 19043

So, the issue. Once I put in the new sticks of G.skill ram, I started having crashes in Warzone. Crashes spat out a dev error 6068. Re-seated the RAM, re-seated the graphics card. More crashes in Warzone. After removing and readding the XMP profile crashes seem to stop however It was suggested I run some memory testing. Ran Memtest86 with XMP2 profile enabled, 2 errors found. Ran it again on XMP1, 1 error found. Ran it with no XMP profile, no errors found. Then, did testing with MemTest5. Tested with XMP1, 1 error found, I think on test 14. Currently running a second cycle on MemTest5 with XMP off, its nearly finished and no further errors.

What im trying to figure out is why im getting these memory errors when using XMP profiles, and if its something I should be worried about? I looked at both the motherboard and CPU memory support pages and neither say this version of the ram is supported while sites like PC part picker etc say its fine. Looking at the CPU, apparently it only supports DDR4-2933MHz which confused me as my previous RAM was 3200MHz.

As mentioned, im not getting the crashes but id like to get the most out of this new RAM. Ive been told its bad RAM but being that its error free without XMP profiles, it doesnt seem to be? Can anyone point me in the right direction here.

Any help is much appreciated