Recent content by 22hertz

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    Macbook vs Thinkpad T61 - Which would you buy TODAY?

    I was deciding between these two a few months ago myself. What I ended up buying was a Macbook Pro. I am extremely happy with my decision! Before this MBP I had no experience with Apple or OSX. My Aunt works for IBM and could have gotten me a sweet deal on the notebook of my choice, but...
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    Are you serious? If it doesnt fail under memtest could I still have defective RAM? I think Ill put a fan blowing across the RAM and leave the PC running for a few days to see if it fixes the problem or not.
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    Seasonic 600W
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    I forgot to add I have set the voltage on the RAM to 2.18V HDD seem to working perfectly. This problem seems to happening less than before but it is still happening. I wonder if my RAM is OK but overheating causing it to become unstable and coldbooting my PC...I dont know Im new to this...
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    I ran 350 passes of memtest 1.70 test 5 with no errors. I have no idea whats going on here Is my RAM just overheating and becoming unstable only then, or is my CPU not able to run stable at stock speeds...how do I test for that? Ive run every stress test I found and Im not getting any...
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    Thanks, thats good to know. Ill try memtest later after I re-install a floppy drive and see what happens. If it fails ill try again at 2.2V
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    I only upped the voltage to 2.12V...everything else is at default settings
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    ok, will do Ill report back.
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    Im using win2k pro with all updates I have run prime 95...all night with no errors Is there anything special I need to do to detect errors its not finding?
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    Not overclocking. Everything is running at stock RAM is Buffalo fire stix 2 1Gb 800Mhz (voltage set to 2.12V) Stock HSF running at max speed...CPU runs cool MB is Intel Badaxe2
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    Is my E6600 the culprit?

    This is my first build and I cant figure out whats causing my new comp to crash. If I leave it on overnight I wake up to either it wating at the password to enter Windows on bootup or on rare occasions everything looks fine in Windows but when I go to click on something it does nothing but...
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    E6600 OC @ stock Voltage - What are you geting?

    It beats the 1Ghz AMD Athlon computer I was using previos to this build with 128M of RAM:D
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    E6600 OC @ stock Voltage - What are you geting?

    Looks like Intel is binning more agressively now. Im only getting 100Mhz more out of this chip at stock voltage...that just sucks
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    E6600 OC @ stock Voltage - What are you geting?

    Here is what I have L641A736 (E6600) Bad Axe2 latest BIOS 2Gigs Buffallo Firestiks This is my first time building a PC and never OC before either so maybe Im doing something wrong. I have a Seasonic 600W PS so that should be a stable power source. Im only running a stock EVGA 7600GT ...
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    E6600 OC @ stock Voltage - What are you geting?

    I can only get 2.5Ghz at stock voltage I raised to 1.375 and couldnt even get booted to 2.9Ghz Am I doing something wrong or does this processor just blow?