Recent content by DanZee

Not necessarily. I have Transcends and Kingson PC3200 sticks (2x256, 1x512) working in my comp at work. Shouldn't be a problem. Just be wary that all of the RAM will work at the speed of the LOWEST rated stick that you, pardon my french, stick into your MoBo.

Specs please.

Take a look in your processes tab. That may be the work of an internet worm that resides on your comp. Look for any process that looks suspicious.

Do as he says. Something is hogging your CPU. Check for adware and stuff. Download a little prog that scans your start-up file - you might be surprised what you may find. It's not a hardware issue. Oh, and by the way, if you have Prime95 or similar, make sure IT'S NOT SET TO RUN AUTOMATICALLY...

I work in the 3D animation industry and the more ram you have the better. Example: I need to render an indoor scene of a... erm... restaurant (just off the top of my head). The geometry in my scene takes up around 2 MB of storage space. The textures take up about 400 MB...

Well, you see, my system had been rock stable with a 2000+ and when I switched to 3000+ the PSU died in agony... So - check PSU... Crap! I just noticed that I've been posting with an angry smiley all the time...

Turn off "automatic reboot on error" in windows. If that doesn't help you better check your PSU. I had the same problem and I thought it was the CPU, then I thought it was Windows, then I thought it was the power spikes. And then one day... my PSU BURNED taking everything with it. So check your...

Xaser III. I have it and it's a good case, with plenty of cooling options, nice layout. The only instance you need a screwdriver is to screw the MoBo in.

Georgia? No thanks. :) And anyway there's a Georgia (US) and then there's Georgia, which is a completely different country since the collapse of the USSR. And, no we don't have regions... We have federal areas, or somesuch, but that's crap anyway. P.S. Thanks, for the welcome. Although I've...

A good rule of thumb would be - overclock that ah heck to hell, but have enough cash on standby to get a replacement in case you prematurely fuse your CPU to your MoBo or HSF. :)

My two cents worth. I think that 54 C is not high for a Barton. As mentioned in another thread I had IDLE temps of around 54 C and everything was dandy-ho apart from the nagging feeling that I should be seeing less (used to having <38 C idle on my old CPU). Since the Bartons are rated at 85 C...

Bit of an update. I ran Prime95 and got hiccups at 1.5V. Raised it to 1.525V and now it's perfectly stable (no errors). So I guess I'm getting watercooling and overclocking that puppy at stock voltages (well, I HOPE I will).

Is this turning into "I've got longer digits in post-count than you!" discussion? :)

Right, thanks. But I'm used to it being at the top OR at the bottom - not smack bang in the middle, where it's hard to find...

My profile says Alabama, but we don't have states in Russia. There should be an option of turning the states off in the profile. It looks ridiculous - Russian Federation - Alabama (or whatever state) - Moscow.