Fixing crashes on Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 6400 in Dune: Awakening
That feeling of being kicked back to the desktop the second you hit the desert sea is beyond infuriating. Looking at my logs, the Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6400 was hitting a wall on my board; the memory controller was swinging between 78-85℃, triggering instant voltage drops and checksum failures. My first instinct was to downclock to 5600MHz. While the crashes stopped, my 1% lows tanked from 68 FPS to 52 FPS, which was a trade-off I just couldn't live with. I went back into the BIOS and manually bumped the memory voltage from 1.35V to 1.38V, and tweaked the VDDQ to 1.32V. After five grueling rounds of MemTest86, the error count dropped from 3 per hour to absolute zero. The boot crashes are officially dead. One catch: the RAM hit 56℃ under load, so I had to rig up a 12cm spot fan to bring it down to 46-50℃. CPU temps sat at 62-68℃. After a dozen reboots, it's finally stable.
