Athlon x4 & memory speeds

[xFluing]

Yesterday I was messing around with one 8 gb stick (as opposed to my regular two 2gb sticks), and well, my chipset didn't really agree with it running at its rated speeds (1066/1333): blue screens, game crashes, webpage crashes

 

Anyway, I clocked it all the way down to 800mhz and it seems to have stopped blue screening, however webpages and games would still easily crash, BUT that's not what I'm here for.

 

What I AM here for, though, is that running that one stick at 800mhz seems to have heavily impacted performance: I would get half the fps in Killing Floor 2 (maxed at 30 instead of 60), and I was wondering if the Athlon x4 860k is sensitive to memory speeds similar (but not as drastic) to ryzen, OR if it was running like ass only because I was running single channel as opposed to dual channel (though that only happens with iGPUs)

[GrockleTD]

consider the quality of the RAM. also consider that dual channel would indeed be TECHNICALLY running at 1600 mhz

[GrockleTD]

2 hours ago, xFluing said:

Yesterday I was messing around with one 8 gb stick (as opposed to my regular two 2gb sticks), and well, my chipset didn't really agree with it running at its rated speeds (1066/1333): blue screens, game crashes, webpage crashes

 

Anyway, I clocked it all the way down to 800mhz and it seems to have stopped blue screening, however webpages and games would still easily crash, BUT that's not what I'm here for.

 

What I AM here for, though, is that running that one stick at 800mhz seems to have heavily impacted performance: I would get half the fps in Killing Floor 2 (maxed at 30 instead of 60), and I was wondering if the Athlon x4 860k is sensitive to memory speeds similar (but not as drastic) to ryzen, OR if it was running like ass only because I was running single channel as opposed to dual channel (though that only happens with iGPUs)

 

2 hours ago, Grockle88 said:

consider the quality of the RAM. also consider that dual channel would indeed be TECHNICALLY running at 1600 mhz

and as for the crashing, that is beyond me.

[xFluing]

11 minutes ago, Grockle88 said:

 

and as for the crashing, that is beyond me.

It was one of those kingston valueram sticks, but I have a cheap Zeppelin kit and that's the 4gb kit that works perfectly...

[GrockleTD]

10 hours ago, xFluing said:

It was one of those kingston valueram sticks, but I have a cheap Zeppelin kit and that's the 4gb kit that works perfectly...

try perhaps clearing CMOS and also go with a reduced CPU overclock?