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Problem with RAM (Most probably)

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Hello! Recentely I've built a new powerful PC. i7 6700K, GTX 1070, 16 GB of RAM etc. It was an amazing experience coming from a E2200 CPU and GT 220 GPU, but... It only lasted a week. I'm pretty sure nothing major happened, but for some reason my RAM just died in the middle of the day when I was playing Fallout 4. I was in some building and when I came out I had a BSOD, If I recall corectelly it was MEMORY MANAGEMENT or PFN LIST CORRUPT. It might be an important information that I had a BSOD before that day, when my PC wake up from the sleep mode. After that, I've been able to log into my desktop once, but it crashed after 10 second. After that BSODs happened on startup, before Windows could boot up fully. They were memory-related BSODs most of the time if not all the time. After doing some research, I came up with 2 possible reasons. Corrupted drivers or broken RAM. I tried reinstalling windows, but I got a BSOD while installing it, and at that point I was sure it's RAM. I ran memtest and got a ton of errors before it finally froze up on test 7. One quick research later and I knew that freezing at test 7 is pretty common and by using some not-default tests on memtest I can go through a full run without freezing. Haven't tried it yet because I'm very busy lately and my PC is out of order for some time now, that's why I decided to do something with it, I'm sick of playing CS:GO on 30 fps on my E2200, especially when I tasted that luxury of 300+ FPS on my new rig. My question is: Is my diagnose right? Should I contact my RAM Manufacturer (G.SKILL) immediatelly to replace it? What do you guys think? Even though I'm pretty experienced in PC stuff, I never had to deal with troubleshooting, every build that I did for my friends and family worked and never broke, so it's a new scenario for me. Just to get it out of the way: Yes, I'm sure I did everything as it was in MOBO manual (Correct slots etc). My RAM is G.Skill Ripjaws V 2400MHz 2x8 (16GB). The only thing I did was enabling XMP. If you need more info on my hardware or situation, I'll be happy to provide it. I'm sorry for this messy wall of text, English is my second language and sometimes I can't communicate what I have in mind, I hope it's not a big problem and you can understand clearly. Thank you in advance! 

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2 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

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Thanks for the answer! I'm first time user of G.Skill product, so I have a question if you, kind sir, know the answer: Is G.Skill support considered great or meh? I've seen some mixed opinions. And do you think that the fact I live in Poland will cause any trouble? I know that G.Skill doesn't have an official polish website, but the fact that their products are sold here should be enough for them to be able to fully help me, right? 

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Just now, Cavi said:

Thanks for the answer! I'm first time user of G.Skill product, so I have a question if you, kind sir, know the answer: Is G.Skill support considered great or meh? I've seen some mixed opinions. And do you think that the fact I live in Poland will cause any trouble? I know that G.Skill doesn't have an official polish website, but the fact that their products are sold here should be enough for them to be able to fully help me, right? 

Maybe...i really don't know as i'm more into customer support of GPU's etc...but not RAM, you could try to call them and talk to them about the issue or return the RAM to the store you bough it from....

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1 minute ago, keNNySOC said:

Maybe...i really don't know as i'm more into customer support of GPU's etc...but not RAM, you could try to call them and talk to them about the issue or return the RAM to the store you bough it from....

Ok, I understand. Once again, thank you for your help. I probably won't be able to return it to the store as they have some weird policy and I didn't pay for extended warranty that "opens" their own support for me so I need to depend on the manufacturers warranty. Anyway, have a nice day! If I encounter any more problems I will post here again and I'm sure community will help me :)

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