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Topic: Building a PC...Help? (Read 15132 times)
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Sky
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What brand was the RAM?
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Furiously
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I was going to suggest you might check what voltage it can handle and adjust it in your bios and see if you can get both sticks to work together.
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SnakeCharmer
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What brand was the RAM?
WINTEC. My mistake was generally thinking RAM was RAM once you got past the specs, and went a little cheap. Won't make that mistake again. I was going to suggest you might check what voltage it can handle and adjust it in your bios and see if you can get both sticks to work together.
I tried that, but no dice. |
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Sky
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There is better spec RAM out there, but I always buy Crucial and have never (touch wood) been disappointed, in any machine I've built or upgraded for 14 years now. That's a shitload of computers without one bum stick.
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SnakeCharmer
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Actually, I ordered 2 gb of Crucial for my rig. I've generally used it in the past. Should have known better.
Ah well. Live and learn.
Just ran 3dMark2005 (free version). With 1 gig of the cheap RAM, I got 8,745 3DMarks.
Edit: Ran it a second time, with AA and all that set to 'let application decide' and got 9,680 3DMarks
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« Last Edit: May 04, 2007, 12:53:30 PM by SnakeCharmer »
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Strazos
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Yeah, you should generally stay away from the off-brands. This is a great example of why.
I always go with either Crucial or Corsair (mostly Corsair). Between the rigs I have built or helped to build, I have never run across a bad stick from either company in the past 8 years or so.
I'm talking maybe 30-35 sticks here. Granted, when you consider how many sticks both of these companies sell, that's a minuscule sample. But twice I have had to deal with systems that went with something else, and RAM was (one of) the problem (OCZ, and something else).
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SnakeCharmer
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Next issue:
Blue (fades/shifts between black and green and blue) and red text is fuzzy. Doesn't matter the resolution. Doesn't matter refresh (fixed 60 hz).
Vid Card: EVGA 7950 GT
Monitor/TV: Olevia 27 inch LCD HDTV Widescreen
Cable, connected via: DVI-M from vid card to HDMI-M to TV.
Graphics, otherwise, are flawless. If it's a red object, it's fine. If it's a blue object, it's fine. It only happens to text, which I *believe* is 2d?
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Furiously
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Looking at it's spec's, you are running it at 1360 x 768?
I have an old viewsonic 13 inc LCD that is always fuzzy as well. I'm sure it's acceptable as a TV, not sure it's meant to be used as a monitor.
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Trippy
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Next issue:
Blue (fades/shifts between black and green and blue) and red text is fuzzy. Doesn't matter the resolution. Doesn't matter refresh (fixed 60 hz).
Vid Card: EVGA 7950 GT
Monitor/TV: Olevia 27 inch LCD HDTV Widescreen
Cable, connected via: DVI-M from vid card to HDMI-M to TV.
Graphics, otherwise, are flawless. If it's a red object, it's fine. If it's a blue object, it's fine. It only happens to text, which I *believe* is 2d?
Could be a function of not running it at its native resolution. |
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SnakeCharmer
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Thats what I thought....
But it does it on my small 19 inch monitor as well (using an adapter to go from DVI to VGA) on any resolution. I've got a ticket in with EVGA, so shall see whats up. It's not THAT bad, but it is annoying as hell; especially in view of the cost of the card....
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Trippy
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Thats what I thought....
But it does it on my small 19 inch monitor as well (using an adapter to go from DVI to VGA) on any resolution. I've got a ticket in with EVGA, so shall see whats up. It's not THAT bad, but it is annoying as hell; especially in view of the cost of the card....
Try the other DVI output. |
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