NeilSmith
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System Name | Akagi (check it out, I have a hardon for Evangelion) |
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Processor | AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black |
Motherboard | ASUS Crosshair IV |
Cooling | GeminII S |
Memory | 8 gigs G.Skill 1333 |
Video Card(s) | ASUS EAH5850 |
Storage | 2x Raid 0 1tb 7200 & 1x 1 tb 7200 |
Display(s) | 120hz Viewsonic 22" VX2265wm |
Case | Rosewill Challenger |
Audio Device(s) | onboard 6.1 |
Power Supply | OCZ 700 watt |
Software | Win7 Pro 64 Bit |
First post time (time to look stupid)
Alright, my current mobo is a ASUS M3N78-VM
My ram is OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 (2x2gig)
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_8500_reaper_hpc_4gb_edition
This stuff is supposed to clock at (1066) 533 DDR2, however if I let my Bios run "auto" it sets them to (800) 400 DDR2.
If I set the Bios to manual, I can set them to 533 however the system becomes unstable and the timings which are supposed to 5-5-5 @ 2.2v transform into some ugly 7s and 9s.
Now, as I'm looking at this I just realized the ram might need to go is slots 3 & 4 and not 1 & 2, as I never tried that... [if this is the reason, i will kick myself. Hard] (i bought this PC white box about 2 years ago on ebay for 650$, it was a pretty good deal since the guy included about 100$ in legit games and the GTX 275 alone was in the high 200s back then)
Some images:
This is what I see in CPU-Z (1 & 2)
CPU-Z shows my PC2-8500 as PC2-6400
And the third was taken when I was cleaning the box last month (dust is the enemy of all things) I had the ram card from the 1st slot out as I was also taking a picture of it [which did not turn out to be very readable, see 4th image] and the other stick in the 2 slot.
While I am actually in the process of building a new PC (there will be a thread about this later this week as I ask dumb questions to keep myself from frying some $1000+ in electronics) based around the ASUS Crosshair 4 Formula, I'm thinking of using this machine as a personal/private game server [mainly steam games like Killing Floor] and I'd like to get the ram up to the speed it ought to be at...
Alright, my current mobo is a ASUS M3N78-VM
My ram is OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 (2x2gig)
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_8500_reaper_hpc_4gb_edition
This stuff is supposed to clock at (1066) 533 DDR2, however if I let my Bios run "auto" it sets them to (800) 400 DDR2.
If I set the Bios to manual, I can set them to 533 however the system becomes unstable and the timings which are supposed to 5-5-5 @ 2.2v transform into some ugly 7s and 9s.
Now, as I'm looking at this I just realized the ram might need to go is slots 3 & 4 and not 1 & 2, as I never tried that... [if this is the reason, i will kick myself. Hard] (i bought this PC white box about 2 years ago on ebay for 650$, it was a pretty good deal since the guy included about 100$ in legit games and the GTX 275 alone was in the high 200s back then)
Some images:
This is what I see in CPU-Z (1 & 2)
CPU-Z shows my PC2-8500 as PC2-6400
And the third was taken when I was cleaning the box last month (dust is the enemy of all things) I had the ram card from the 1st slot out as I was also taking a picture of it [which did not turn out to be very readable, see 4th image] and the other stick in the 2 slot.
While I am actually in the process of building a new PC (there will be a thread about this later this week as I ask dumb questions to keep myself from frying some $1000+ in electronics) based around the ASUS Crosshair 4 Formula, I'm thinking of using this machine as a personal/private game server [mainly steam games like Killing Floor] and I'd like to get the ram up to the speed it ought to be at...