I'll try to keep this short. I've got a case with 7 internal fans, a Volcano9, etc. Cooling isn't an issue.
So I had what I thought was 2 stickes of 512MB Samsung running on XP. Got the thing to 200 X 12 at 4/4 ratio for RAM. CPU @ 1.85V. Ram @ 2.9V. It would boot in XP just fine but would eventually fail in 3DMark2001. I was disappointed and questioned my RAM. I then found out the RAM was not Samsung...some inferior generic **** that buyAIB.com sent me (that's another issue altogether).
So I purchased Kingston HyperX thinking it would be easily stable at 200 X 12 with the same voltages. Nope. In fact, my computer was far less stable than my generic RAM. I'm almost positive it is the RAM. I lowered the mulitplier to 11 and then thing was still immediatley failing in 3DMark. I even dropped it to 190 X 12 and I'm still failing in 3DMARK2001...my generic RAM passed the benchmarks at this setting.
I'm ready to call it quits. Any suggestions? BTW, I ran Memtest86 last night and my HyperX resulted in 501 errors in test #5. I'm new to this program.
Is it just hard to find good RAM? Is 2 sticks of 512MB too much? Or could it be something else? Suggestions/comments? Should I go home and shut up?
So I had what I thought was 2 stickes of 512MB Samsung running on XP. Got the thing to 200 X 12 at 4/4 ratio for RAM. CPU @ 1.85V. Ram @ 2.9V. It would boot in XP just fine but would eventually fail in 3DMark2001. I was disappointed and questioned my RAM. I then found out the RAM was not Samsung...some inferior generic **** that buyAIB.com sent me (that's another issue altogether).
So I purchased Kingston HyperX thinking it would be easily stable at 200 X 12 with the same voltages. Nope. In fact, my computer was far less stable than my generic RAM. I'm almost positive it is the RAM. I lowered the mulitplier to 11 and then thing was still immediatley failing in 3DMark. I even dropped it to 190 X 12 and I'm still failing in 3DMARK2001...my generic RAM passed the benchmarks at this setting.
I'm ready to call it quits. Any suggestions? BTW, I ran Memtest86 last night and my HyperX resulted in 501 errors in test #5. I'm new to this program.
Is it just hard to find good RAM? Is 2 sticks of 512MB too much? Or could it be something else? Suggestions/comments? Should I go home and shut up?