Something's broken, and I think it's the CPU

[edfcmc]

remove a stick of ram.

 

[InternetDuder]

k did that, now just to clarify

if this IS stable with 1 stick of ram, my CPU's memory mcjigger is borked, so I have to RMA the CPU?

 

[rise]

not yet.

set your vcore to 1.4 and the spec to 104% to give you some solid volts. also put your vdimm(dram) to 2.7 or 2.8v


edit-actually i'm not really sure what ram you have but almost all ram is good up to 2.9.

 

[InternetDuder]

I have OCZ ram - but I just got a weirdness

I was playing Wow, and it started to hang.. and hang.... and then I turned on the fan in frustration... it hung a while longer... then quit to windows. It was in 16 bit color and dumpy resolution and said "a device has failed," and the reest of some error, but my computer was in rough shape and wouldn't go any further than that, I had to hard restart.

Sounds like video card to me

 

[theMan]

well, i wouldnt say so. it is failing prime95 which should fail with a bad video card. i think you should RMA the cpu immediately. then if that doesnt help (very unlikely) leadtek has a very good warrantee/rma program.

 

[Operandi]

Just so we've covered everything (almost?), you do have the nForce drivers installed correct?

 

[InternetDuder]

yes. Breakthrough!

For some reason, after I redid the HSF on the CPU, I ran prime95 again at stock speeds, because it really didnt make sense that everything was pointing to the video card, and prime95 failed Well..

Prime95 passed (12 hours and counting right now)!!!

So now the only trouble I'm having is games. I am really looking at video card, because of the whole going to crappy res, and 16 colors, and windows barfing at me that 'a device has failed'.