Recent content by EventHorizon

I didn't see that anybody had ask this so I will, have you cleaned out the heatsink? If it's all clogged up with dust in there it'll get insane temps. Take a can of air duster and blow thru it see if that doesn't help some. If that doesn't help you might just have to apply a fresh coat of your...

Nope sorry. 32bit versions of winxp can't use more then 3gb since the OS reserves some space for itself. To use all 4gb you'd have to run a 64bit version of windows.

Sounds to me like a POS PSU. You've had 2 of the same mobo that had problems in 3d mode which happens to be a big draw on a PSU. the only way to solve it that you found was to underclock the gfx card, which would reduce it's power consumption. I bet you'd get the same result if you...

Did you check in the bios to see if all the mem and cpu settings are correct? Some thing to try is to pull the CMOS battery for a few minutes, put it back in then go into the bios and load optimized settings. Have you used any program like cpu-z to see if the cpu and mem settings are at the...

Have you had the card for a while? My first guess would be that the cooler is clogged with dust. If it's a new card I'd say the heatsink is either not making good contact with the gpu or they didn't apply the TIM correctly. The only other thing that comes to mind is really poor case ventilation.

X2 4600+ stock with stock 4 pipe heatsink 34 idle / 50 load (both cores)

I've seen long boots that take forever to get past that part before. When i had that problem it was caused by a severly bloated registry of about 150MB in size. Used ntregopt in safemode and knocked it down to about 20mb and it zoomed along after that. Shouldn't be a problem with a fresh...

CPU-Z is just reporting the information it gets by reading the sticks SPD. Those are the values the manufaturer says the memory should use at those speeds. You've done nothing, don't worry.

Well, I only see a few bad things about this setup. Ionic air purifiers use high voltage to ionize the air, which generates ozone, which is bad for your health. Ozone is also not good for the components inside the computer either. Since the air is ionized you end up with parts that buildup...

Running dual channel reads 16bytes per read so it takes 4 mem accesses to fill a cache line when there's a miss. When running single channel the cpu only reads 8byte per read so it takes 8 mem accesses to fill a cache line on a miss. Dual channel is superior to single channel on cpu's built...

The way cpus work both sticks of memory get accessed reguardless of the amout of data requested. On A64 chips that have true dual channel 128 bit mem buses you have 64 bits on 1 stick and 64 bits on the other. A request for even 1 byte of data will cause the cpu to do a cache line fill if the...

What are you using to test performance. Just saying there's no increase doesn't really give alot of detail. Are you running any benchmarks, playing games, etc? There are some games that are more cpu dependent then gpu and so won't show an increase with an oc'ed card. Also, did you test from...

What i'd guess is a bad thermal sensor since even that old 2000+ would start erroring out before hitting 160F+. If it were truelly that hot the heatsink would be very warm too unless it's on wrong.

The first thing I'd say is never trust a software voltage reading. Is your computer crashing/ locking up alot since if you were getting real dips like that it would be. If it's really doing that you should also hear the fans slow down and speed up... alittle at least. I'd put more money on a...

Have you checked to see if the fan is working? You've don't list card temps, have you checked them after the flashing starts. It does sound like heat but it could also be bad power. Never trust bios/software voltage readings, always use a multimeter