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    What was the very first video card you ever bought?

    It counts! If I could find an image of the guts of a Pong board I might be able to one up you :P
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    What was the very first video card you ever bought?

    The Trident 8900 ISA SVGA. Side note: My Father and older brother colluded to switch it with an EGA card he (older brother) had in his comp assuming I wouldn't notice the difference at 12 years old. Busted! Yes. I'm old.
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    Video card advice

    Marginally more memory on the 8800gts and pretty much a wash on horsepower. IMO it comes down to drivers which usually favors NV.
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    What gaming video card lasted you the longest ?

    8800 GTX 3 years 850 XT 2 years (other machine)
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    Bigger PSU or CPU overheating FX-9590, please help

    I get what you are saying, and I think you understand what I'm saying as well but just to clarify: the fans on the radiator should be of the static pressure variety vs airflow (chassis) variety. Typically significantly higher amp draw as well.
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    Bigger PSU or CPU overheating FX-9590, please help

    Those 120mm fans on the radiator are not the ones the 9590 shipped with, no? What are those red-led Apevia fans that are installed rated for? Case fans are not a suitable replacement. Some additional help setting up the the uefi and more, if you haven'y already seen it, can be found here
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    A friend and fellow [H]forum member dropped by today to help me with this issue. After digging through the bios for a while, swapping ram, etc he was convinced that it was NOT a bios setting or OS issue, it was hardware. Before any RMA action he wanted to take a look at the CPU pins, since...
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    Thanks for sharing this Johan45. While it seems that some people have been able to coax the 8350 types to run 2400 ram I agree that it looks like a pita no matter what. 2133 seems reasonable with the right settings/combo, even if its not officially supported. Honestly at this point I would be...
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    I've reviewed the memory setup/bios/8350 etc stickies in the CVFZ section of the ROG forums here . However, even after trying all of these changes I can't get dual channel at even at the lowest ram speeds, so the memory controller would have to be more than not good, it would have to be very...
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    Thanks for your input Raja. I've tried stepping up the 'secondary' timings in unison from 1 through 5 clocks over what is defaulted for each setting. Since what those timings actually do is completely beyond me, this is about the limit of my capabilities. If you think relaxing them further might...
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    508b, no change. I should add that throughout this process windows does show 16gb installed, but 8gb are "hardware reserved" when attempting to run dual channel. Vacation time in 2 weeks so I'm going to keep trying anything I can, then rma...although my suspicion is that, all things being...
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    I've talked to ASUS support, they were surprisingly helpful and asked all the right questions. Unfortunately in the end, they could only recommend RMA. I've tried bios versions 1503, 1602, 1901 and 2002. I will try 508b. Fingers crossed.
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried under and over those timings and voltages as well as everything in between on three different ram kits. I have all of the bs CnQ, HPC, APM, turbo core, etc off... believe me it was the first thing I did. I'm still not convinced that this is defective...
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    I have tried loosening all the timings, from 10-13-13-33 (the loosest xmp profile) to as slow as 12-15-15-36, and everything in-between. The other two ddr3 kits I tried were a corsair xms 1600 2x2GB and a crucial ballistix 2X4GB 1866 kit. While neither were on the qvl either, I'm still fairly...
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    Cant get CHFZ to run dual channel

    They are intel XMP. However, many have managed to get 2133 on the memory to run dual channel, even though its not officially supported on the FX line. I have tried the DOCP and manually even looser timings at as low as 1333 and on up. No dice. I've upped the CPU/NB from the default 1.1 up to as...
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