I have a HUGE problem that I only now took seriously. A couple of months back I added another set of 6gb ram to my computer.. everything worked perfectly fine up until about 2 months ago when I noticed how windows shows that I have 12 gigs of ram but only 8 are usable, I put everything in stock settings and just left it be.. today - I finally got enough time and formatted my windows in hopes that this thing will go away.. yet it hasnt gone away and is the same.. I decided to overclock a bit and overclocked my CPU to 3.0Ghz and memory up to 1645Mhz (thats the advertised speed of the RAM).. its still the same.. so I decided to take out one set of RAM and see if it helps.. and now it says I have 6 gigs but only 4 usable.. I have no idea what to do anymore.. I am running windows 7 ultimate 64bit..
spec is as follows:
EVGA X58 FTW3
Intel Core i7 930
Corsair H50
2x Corsair Dominator 6gb DDR3 1600Mhz tr3x6g1600c8d
Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050W
1x WD velociraptor 300GB (Main boot drive)
1x Seagate Barracude 2TB SATA III (Storage)
Corsair Obsidian 650D
EVGA GTX 470 superclocked
I have posted this on another forum and people there seem to have a similar issue to mine and have been telling me this is an x58 issue and is a problem with the memory controller.. some say that I need to loosen up one of the screws on my cpu cooler - i have no idea which, others say I need to overclock/play with settings in my bios etc.
I am willing to overclock or change anything in the bios as long as you know what you're doing.. my computer is meant for overclocking the fact that I am not into it is a whole different thing.. also it would be nice if you know what to change specific for EVGA motherboards so I would'nt have to break my head.. I have seen topics about Asus mobos on different forums but not on EVGA
Any help is appreciated!
spec is as follows:
EVGA X58 FTW3
Intel Core i7 930
Corsair H50
2x Corsair Dominator 6gb DDR3 1600Mhz tr3x6g1600c8d
Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050W
1x WD velociraptor 300GB (Main boot drive)
1x Seagate Barracude 2TB SATA III (Storage)
Corsair Obsidian 650D
EVGA GTX 470 superclocked
I have posted this on another forum and people there seem to have a similar issue to mine and have been telling me this is an x58 issue and is a problem with the memory controller.. some say that I need to loosen up one of the screws on my cpu cooler - i have no idea which, others say I need to overclock/play with settings in my bios etc.
I am willing to overclock or change anything in the bios as long as you know what you're doing.. my computer is meant for overclocking the fact that I am not into it is a whole different thing.. also it would be nice if you know what to change specific for EVGA motherboards so I would'nt have to break my head.. I have seen topics about Asus mobos on different forums but not on EVGA
Any help is appreciated!