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Virulent

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This concerns my friend's computer, his current specs are:

AMD 64 2800+
Asus K8NE-Deluxe
1GB PC3200 Corsair VS This one
BFG 6800 OC

Basically the problem comes down to the RAM or so it seems. Previously he had one stick of 512MB Corsair VS and ran an Aquamark bench and got around 45,000 I think, not sure exactly. Anyways, after installing the 1GB stick we ran Aquamark and got a 15,000 score. I understand the 1GB stick has a higher latency but should it really affect the bench by that much? Would lowering the CAS on the 1GB stick have any affect? And how would you go about doing that, just by going into the BIOS and lowering the speed to a 2.5 or so?

Now to another problem with the two RAM sticks, they won't work together at the same time. When we tried to install both sticks the computer would not boot and give out the error "System failed due to CPU overclocking" I believe. I also assumed this is due to the CAS latency timings only because I can't see what else would cause that, unless the different size sticks can also cause this. Anyways, if anyone has any idea why the drop in the Aquamark score would be so severe after swapping a 512 for a 1GB and why the two sticks won't work together, please let us know, I'd appreciate anything you can do to help. Thanks.
 
Virulent, I don't have an answer for you but I have a similar problem with my Asus A8N-SLI Prem MB. The CPU is a 2X AMD 3800 and I was using 2 1gig sticks of Rosewill memory. It booted fine with one stick but with both sticks it would boot to the first screen and stop. I could use either stick but not both. I just took it to mean the memory wasn't compatible with the MB and called NewEgg which gave me an RMA to send it back. I'm still waiting for new memory so I can't even tell you anything good. I hope someone here can help you because I'm sure it will up others too. Good luck! :)

Kathy
 
"another option, try bumping the ram voltage up to 2.7v"

I went into my Bios to set up my ram voltage but I don't know which one to change. Can you tell me what it's called? :confused: Thanks!

Kathy
 
probably one of these:

dram voltage
vdimm
memory voltage

or something like that. it'll be an option ranging from around 2.5-2.8v or so.
 
Ok thank you! I go back and look. And this is for the Asus A8N Premium board not the Deluxe, does that matter?

Kathy
 
Well I tried bumping up the DDR Voltage to 2.75 and got a blue screen for a second and then it rebooted and froze, so I put it back the way it was.

Strange thing happen, I added the second stick of memory to slot A2 and the other stick in slot B1 and it's working fine. But I don't think this is right, should I take one stick back out? It shows I have 2048mb of memory. I'm confused! lol

Kathy
 
I will get that cpu-z screenshot up as soon as I go over to his house again. Any ideas though as to why his benchmarks would drop so severly though? His computer does run fine with the 1GB stick, in WoW it actually helped a ton with the loading in Ironforge. It's really not a huge problem just more an annoyance that his benchmarks went down so much, worried though it might actually affect other games like FPS's or other quick action type games.

Anyways, I'll get that cpu-z shot loaded up asap and see if you or anyone has an idea why we couldn't get both RAM modules to work. Thanks!
 
Virulent said:
Any ideas though as to why his benchmarks would drop so severly though?
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if it's stable, i point my finger at spyware/virii, bad drivers, or just some programs open that suck up some cpu
 
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