whats wrong with my RAM?

[scotteeeG]

I have one single stick of 2 gig ddr3 ram in my pc. It is kingston kvr1333d3n9/2g. My mobo is an ecs model that does not allow me to oc my cpu (any advice would be appreciated(not cooling advice, I know about the cooling)) my issue is that on this g41t-m6 mobo is that I have 2 ram speed settings. 800 or 1066. On 800 all is well. On 1066 my pc won't post or give display. I can change timings but I just left it on auto. Is there a way I should set the timings and is there a way to oc an e5400 in that board. (Thanks in advance.)

[RicheemxX]

Welcome to the wonderful world of budget computing. ECS is notorious for limiting your bios settings so sadly there isn't much you can do other than run the CPU at stock speeds. As to anything being wrong with your RAM, I don't see there being anything wrong. The board only supports DDR3 1066 and your chip only supports an 800mhz FSB so clocking the ram to 1066 speeds is likely clocking something else up that the board doesn't like.

Since you are really really limited on settings not much you can do.

[scotteeeG]

Well I was lining up for an i7. Was half way there. Now I gotta start all over. Otherwise thanks. I did not even think of the fsb only being 800mhz. So this ram of mine is really like parkjng a ferrari in a bricked off garage. Cpu prices just dropped massively so perhaps I might get a core 2 quad or something just to tide me over. At least then I might be able to get the boards full 1066. Damn. Was eyeing that i7 so hard but the nahalem chip is like 10 thousand rand. Looks like I am gonna have to postpone. Lol. Thanks again.

[RicheemxX]

Wow lining up for an i7 and you settle on an e5400 and an older socket 775 budget board? TBH If you were building from the ground you should have been looking at going with something newer. What are you building for, I mean goals wise? A good gaming PC or what? If you can't get the i7 the core i3 and core i5's are great chips. You'd need a new mobo but that would give you many more options down the road.

[ShyguyXPC]

Very Few of ECS's Boards have full OC'ing options enabled on them, and their usually their higher end Performance boards, which in the past haven't been too bad, but on the lower end boards usually not as many options as some would like.

As Rich points out it could be that the CPU is being OC'd right along with the faster RAM, which, if the System was being booted with 1066MHz RAM, and a 1066MHz FSB, its possible the CPU was clocked at 3-3.5GHz and wouldn't boot.

There Should Be, note I said "should", an option in the Bios for a CPU/Memory Divider that would keep one or the other from clocking up, or clocking up as much when the other is OC'd, which would help things, but I'm not familiar with the workings of that Board, and Haven't OC'd any CPU's since the Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939 Days.

[scotteeeG]

Yeah. I was on a tight budget when my p4 crashed so I reckoned it would be temporary. Turns out unexpected cost really do come from nowhere. 10 grand of i7 saving down the tube. Still gonna get there. Until then I just want this one to last. Want to use it for some graphic design among other things. But yes gaming I'd most definately one of my needs. My mom got an i5 but its slower than mine. Its unreal. She keeps lots of services running though so I can understand why.

[ShyguyXPC]

Even with a lot of services running her i5 should be beating your Pentium Dual core, hands down. has to be something else going on with her PC if yours is beating it then.

Your already running DDR3 1333MHz in your current PC, that'd be one less thing to buy for an i5 or i7 System.

Depending on what the rest of your system specs are, the only real parts to buy that you would need is the CPU and Mobo.

if the PSU is up to the task, then thats one less part, Video card, depending on what that is, could be one less part, Hard drives would be able to work in the new system.

if you have a Retail Full version of Windows on your current PC, you can transfer that to the new one.

Really only leaving the Case and issue, if its a full size ATX case, then thats fine too. then just matter of deciding Micro ATX Mobo or full ATX for i5/i7.

Not sure how this board is for Overclocking, but cheap in price, and decent features for the price:

Newegg.com - ASRock H55M LGA 1156 Intel H55 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

K Series i7, Unlocked, good for OCing: Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-875K Lynnfield 2.93GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Unlocked Desktop Processor BX80605I7875K



Although if a Dual Core is fine for you too, 3.6GHz Dual: Newegg.com - Intel Core i5-680 Clarkdale 3.6GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 Dual-Core Desktop Processor BX80616I5680

Or a K series: Newegg.com - Intel Core i5-655K Clarkdale 3.2GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Unlocked Desktop Processor BX80616I5655K

Though for OCing a better board and memory would be needed probably.

But depending on the rest of the current system specs, and if you even need to OC at all, those wouldn't be bad options really, save on Mobo Costs, and run a Higher clock speed CPU in it.