Originally Posted by confus-ed
Just skipping past Noo's questions for a moment ;)
In this situation I'd be off trying smaller sticks of memory - unless - I was 100% that my motherboard supported them & that particular brand at that speed ... 'experience' says the bigger the stick the more 'iffy' it can get under load ;) ... many, many motherboards are 'twiddled' to take 512 sticks, when often they were 'really' designed for 256 ones, tiny bits of voltage & nano seconds get very important the further you push your kit...