Recent content by chocobo15

thanks for bringing that up, the option is greyed out for me actually, and i can't click it :(

i have yet to update my bios...been hearing alot of discussion about it, will try flashing it to 0701 tonight and seeing if it helps the memory problems.

ranger, you are probably right. I have been having memory issues for a LONG time now and can't seem to solve it no matter what i do. I have a pair of corsair dominator pc2-8500's on the way, but I used to use the corsair xms2 6400 and every time i run memtest, fails every pass! errors in the...

i didn't check if it does that at stock my system runs fine, however, but every once in a while when I'm playing a game it will freeze for 1-2 seconds and then be normal again. This occurs about once every 30 minutes or so. Not a huge deal, but sounds like the system is a tad unstable. I...

well, i was assuming that since one core got stuck, it was an unstable overclock, and the general reason for that is too low voltage what do you think? should i exchange the chip?

After i stress my OC'ed Q6600 for 2 hours on small FFT's with prime95, core #4 get stuck at 99% load and won't come down till I restart. Is that a faulty chip or do I just need to increase the core voltage?

i will give that a try when i get home, thanks for the advice! I'll keep you guys posted

memtest failed every pass ... my whole screen is filled with red :( does this motherboard not like 800mhz ram or something?

Hey guys, I just upgraded my computer recently to ASUS Maximus Formula mobo with a C2Q 6600 and 2gigs of corsair XMS2 pc2-6400 DDR2 ram and I want to overclock, but before that I did a memory diagnostic test with the default windows memory diagnostic tool, and it immediately said there was an...