About Ram instablility

[Bobthelost]

Originally posted by: LW07
Well, HT gives you a virtual CPU core. So on each Core, you have HT, so you have 2 real cores and 2 virtual cores, so that gives you 4 total cores. Of course, not all can have that dream fullfilled so quickly yet, so out of the 4200+, 4400+, 4600+, and 4800+, which one should I go with. I'm NOT going with the 3800+.

Yeah so you'd think, but it doesn't work like that.

You're being rather unhelpful here, what apps are you going for here? Gaming the 4800X2 is best, photoshop the 4600X2 is 99.9% as good and much cheaper.

 

[LW07]

Like I said, I play games and multitask by using multiple firefox windows when I need to. I'm getting a X1900XT because my 7800GT can only pump out 400 FPS on IL-2 Sturmovik when looking at the sky at 800*600 and doesn't go any faster at 640*480 and 320*200 even at High Performance with all AA and AF off.

 

[Bobthelost]

snip. nevermind.

 

[LW07]

Which of the X2 4x00 processors will serve me the best? I'm looking at the 4600+ now, but will the 4200+ deliver as good performance?

 

[Bobthelost]

For gaming the 4800X2 is best

 

[LW07]

I think I'm going to go with the 4600+.

 

[zagood]

I'm going to get back to the point of this thread.

That's great that your ram is stable at DDR333. Now run memtest (since you finally got it to work) and run it at DDR400. If it doesn't pass you should RMA the ram. You're not getting what you paid for, and the difference in memory intensive apps like gaming and photoshop will suffer with the slower ram speeds.

If you're fine with a computer that's slower than it should be AT STOCK, then never mind.

-z

 

[LW07]

I can solve that by getting an Athlon FX-57

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: LW07
Here's my question. Three weeks ago, I ran Prime 95 and failed the test in 7 seconds at PC 3200 speeds. My ram is this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146970
and My latency timings were 3-3-3-7. Last night, I had a BSOD that said something about IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL, which is supposed to be ram related issues, from what I hear. After a little research, I reduced the speeds to PC 2700 and the timings to 3-3-3-8. I ran Prime 95 again. This Time, it went for 1 hour and 20 minutes with absolutely no errors(I stopped Prime 95 myself because I had to get stuff done) and I'm wondering, did my reducing the ram speeds make my computer more stable in that area and will it stop my IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL BSOD problems and make my system more stable, since now prime 95 goes alot better than at the PC 3200 speeds? I was running Prime 95 with the option with the most ram testing, by the way. The system seems more responsive, also, but what I'm interested in is will this make my system more stable or will I still have to go out and replace the ram?

I really need this question to be answered because I don't want to be complacent with my ram and it still not be stable.

I think that I'll just run Prime 95 until 9 and see what happens there.

I have corsair value ram and I tried till the cows came home to run it at ddr400.
Would get bsods with no particular rhyme or reason maybe 1 or 2 a week.
finally reduced speed to ddr 333 and I have not had a bsod for months.
tried upping voltage to ram and got same thing, no errors reported in memtest.
Corsair ram guy blames it on the memory controller but I am not so sure will have to try a different brand eventually

 

[zagood]

Originally posted by: LW07
Like I said, I play games and multitask by using multiple firefox windows when I need to. I'm getting a X1900XT because my 7800GT can only pump out 400 FPS on IL-2 Sturmovik when looking at the sky at 800*600 and doesn't go any faster at 640*480 and 320*200 even at High Performance with all AA and AF off.

Oh. Never mind. Didn't realize you're just trolling.

Got me!

-z