What should I do with my set up?

[AMDBarton2500]

I have to make a decision here.....

I've been having issues with running my set up at 200FSB and now Im beginning to think its my motherboard rather then my memory.

I had a friend bring a stick of his 512mb PC2500 ram....forgot the brand. But I removed the Geil and put that in and I get identical symptoms. On top of it I ordered another model of Geil and the issue just keeps up. I tested these with 1 stick.

I ran it once in duel mode with 2 different models of Geils in there (both 512mb) and it runs fine but the second I go to 200FSB...nothing.......I ran it at 190 (which has been the most stable so far before the memory swaps) and the computer is a little faster now. However its not a big difference. 3dMark 2001 stayed the same....shouldn't duel mode and an extra stick put the score up?

Im starting to think its my motherboard rather then the memory....

Asus might be going back......

 

[myocardia]

Hey, I'm pretty sure that the reason your 3dMark scores aren't going up is your 9600 video card. What scores are you getting now?

 

[AMDBarton2500]

Mid 11000s......and they stayed the same when I added memory. I thought dual channel mode was suppose to help.....but honestly my PC feels just a little faster. No big difference.

 

[pelikan]

I would run memtest86. If you don't get any errors maybe its the mb.
Are you using the max vdimm?

 

[VIAN]

How bout you dont overclock and stick to what you paid for.

 

[pelikan]

Originally posted by: VIAN
How bout you dont overclock and stick to what you paid for.

This forum is titled: "CPU/Processors and Overclocking."

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: AMDBarton2500
Mid 11000s......and they stayed the same when I added memory. I thought dual channel mode was suppose to help.....but honestly my PC feels just a little faster. No big difference.

Hey, nobody ever said that adding memory was like getting a faster processor! I can tell you that it does make some things run faster though. For instance, defragging will happen faster now, assuming you were worried about how fast it defragged... Oh, photo editing will actually be almost twice as fast with twice the memory. And of course, your games will run better with more memory also.

But, you should definitely be getting much better 3dMark 2001 scores with a 9600 Pro. I get around 10,700-10,800 with a 128 MB Gainward GeForce3 Ti200 Golden Sample! Of course, that's only when I run the card at 240/550. It only gets lower 9000's when it's running at stock speed (the video card, that is).

And why don't we have an "old man" forum for vian?? He and the other old men could discuss the good old days of computing, when they built their first 286's!

 

[VIAN]

ok dude, thats not a good comeback.