FolderChat 5\8\08 yesterday's thread

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

so I went on out to new egg and picked up 2 more gigs of ram, cool right,

wrong

so now I have 4gigs installed, vista See's all 4 gigs

however here is the thing, with 2gigs running at 1066 the vista rating was 5.9, now with 4gigs running at 1066 the vista rating is 5.5

I have 4 sticks at 1gig each,


so now I overclock the CPU to 3.0, and leave ram at 1066 vista rating is back to 5.9

[engracio]

Originally Posted by Cmptr-Gy-Dv

so I went on out to new egg and picked up 2 more gigs of ram, cool right,

wrong

so now I have 4gigs installed, vista See's all 4 gigs

however here is the thing, with 2gigs running at 1066 the vista rating was 5.9, now with 4gigs running at 1066 the vista rating is 5.5

I have 4 sticks at 1gig each,


so now I overclock the CPU to 3.0, and leave ram at 1066 vista rating is back to 5.9

Dave to be more precise, what exactly are you trying to say. That you wasted the 2 extra gig since Vista did not give you what you think Vista should give you? Call Bill and tell he is full of it. I think the rating are just flashing light to impress people. Then again that is just me.

[engracio]

How we looking KK???

[KarmaKiller]

Ok report:
Ram is known good. I have 1 gig (2x512) that it runs great on. I also have a 2gig Wintec (2x1gb's) that I just got, and it works fine also.
Both have passed Memtest previous to today.
So I'm putting my money on the Mobo, again. This is the second time this board has had to be RMA'd.
I can't swap boards tonight, but probably tomorrow I'll do that, and see if the CPU is good. (which I'm almost certain it is.)

So, you agree?


EDIT:
And it's nice to know when your in the thread, thanks for changing that.

[engracio]

Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

Ok report:
Ram is known good. I have 1 gig (2x512) that it runs great on. I also have a 2gig Wintec (2x1gb's) that I just got, and it works fine also.
Both have passed Memtest previous to today.
So I'm putting my money on the Mobo, again. This is the second time this board has had to be RMA'd.
I can't swap boards tonight, but probably tomorrow I'll do that, and see if the CPU is good. (which I'm almost certain it is.)

So, you agree?


EDIT:
And it's nice to know when your in the thread, thanks for changing that.

Yea bad habit I had when I was active on the Epnis thread. Glad got away from it. Still like lurking and see who got the biggest at the moment.

Sounds like a great game plan. Sorry you had to go thru it again but that how it rolls sometimes.

pls check your pm,

[KarmaKiller]

Originally Posted by engracio

pls check your pm,

I have no PM's.

Another update though. In BIOS, I have 2 cores. They both show. In windows, any app doesn't matter, I have one core.

Is it possible that it's just windows?


EDIT

NM, got the PM.

[engracio]

Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

I have no PM's.

Another update though. In BIOS, I have 2 cores. They both show. In windows, any app doesn't matter, I have one core.

Is it possible that it's just windows?

No the only time I know it happens is when the OS was build it was not multi core but single core. The os is not recognizing the multi core cpu. Hope that makes sense.

[KarmaKiller]

Hmm... So I wonder WTH it is then. Surely I didn't kill the CPU...
I think that would be a first for me. I'll make a thread about it and see what others think.
Thanks for the help.

[KarmaKiller]

*/shameless plug for my thread ahead/*
(hey that rhymed!)

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t207946.html

Suggestions, anyone??

[engracio]

Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

Hmm... So I wonder WTH it is then. Surely I didn't kill the CPU...
I think that would be a first for me. I'll make a thread about it and see what others think.
Thanks for the help.

What I have done more than I can count when oc'ing is corrupt the OS and get all kind of wierd errors. If you got time before tearing it apart tomorrow is re install the os??? maybe???