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makrom

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I upgraded my RAM with 4 8GB Kingston HyperX 2133MHz (11-12-13) and I get memory errors with Rember. I'm also getting somewhat frequent application and OS X crashes that I neither get on my rMBP nor before the RAM upgrade.
Rember gave me the following error:
FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x0000000496ca2ec8, BUFB address 0x000000082cd426c8
BUFA Data: 0x7edb584effe57bd9, BUFB Data: 0x7edb584effe57bf9

Since I couldn't match this memory address to a RAM bank, I tried to test the RAM modules 2 by 2 until I could isolate the culprit.
But here's the weird thing: The memory issues only occur when I use all 4 modules. When I use any 2, the tests never failed. I tried them in bank 1 and 3 or 2 and 4, but they work fine regardless.

So basically I can currently use my iMac with 16GB, no matter which modules or banks I am using, but I can't use all 4 at once.
Is there any way to diagnose what could be the cause for that?
 
Well I guess that might work, but returning a non defective product would mean additional costs. Also, couldn't it be a mainboard issue as well?
Another problem is that there aren't many lv 2133 alternatives available and I went with these since many people here reported them to be working fine in their late 2015 5k iMacs.
 
I'm sorry if I phrased it poorly, I don't use it together with the RAM my iMac came with as it only has 4 banks, also the stock RAM only runs at 1866MHz.
And this particular type of RAM has been reported as working well in these iMac models so I don't think it's incompatible per se. Is there even such a thing as RAM incompatibility that only occurs when using 4 instead of 2 modules?
To ask in a more specific manner, is there any way to determine which RAM module might be defective, as in matching a memory address to a module? Or is there an effective way to test whether my mainboard might have issues with using 4 modules?
 
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