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Crap I must be getting old. I first read this with a chuckle and then I got curious. I went to look since "bralemili" had a yellow star under his screen name and I said well let me see what else he has asked about since it used to take 50 posts for a single yellow star. Nope now it must be only 10 posts since he has barely made 13 posts total and that all about this same situation. However he is pretty quick to know the answers to questions asked. So: >>
1. > Bralemili, you have a system that is not what we call robust enough for overclocking an 8 core early FX 8 core processor.
2. > You went down to your friendly computer shoppee and said man gimme some ram I need to get where I can handle use of 12 gigs and I have 8, so they set you up with a single 8 gig stick of mis-matched ram which is normally not recommended in a "performance" venue.
3. > But the only thing you really want to do is cover your needs for Adobe memory usage. Right? Wrong?
4. > If you were a 'customer' of mine and I knew you cared little for the niceties of overclocking but just wanted to use Adobe and not see that you were run out of ram, I would fire-up P95 Blend mode and run for 2 hours and if all passed in that P95 gave no errors and temps did not exceed 70c on the Cpu/Socket and did not exceed 62c on the Package/Core temps while monitoring with Free version of CPUID HWMonitor, then I would tell you to rock on man.
The change to a better power supply may have cured any errors and BSODs you were seeing and now you should know we do not recommend that particular board for overclocking, so if you have n0 P95 Blend failures just use your mis-matched ram. If there are no problems with stability...heck you will never know it is using mis-matched ram. Save your money and have some change in hand to upgrade where necessary if you really want to get some extra performance from overclocking.
Yes I know you guys are shocked in hearing this from the mobo police, but I have worked on customer computers off and on for years and most of them have far different goals than us that would overclock the washing machine if we thought we could.
RGone...ster.
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Another reason that I am not so gungho to have him ditch his mis-matched ram that could work, is that he has an air-cooler for his cpu that I wonder if it will take tall heat spreader ram in the ram slots if he sells off all and gets 16 gigs of ram with tall heat spreaders. I am just hoping to see him get on with life and Adobe as painless as possible. If he wants to get OR needs some real performance out of an 8 core BD processor then he needs a thoughtful rebuild. I doubt he does care about anything but Adobe and ram.
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1. > Bralemili, you have a system that is not what we call robust enough for overclocking an 8 core early FX 8 core processor.
2. > You went down to your friendly computer shoppee and said man gimme some ram I need to get where I can handle use of 12 gigs and I have 8, so they set you up with a single 8 gig stick of mis-matched ram which is normally not recommended in a "performance" venue.
3. > But the only thing you really want to do is cover your needs for Adobe memory usage. Right? Wrong?
4. > If you were a 'customer' of mine and I knew you cared little for the niceties of overclocking but just wanted to use Adobe and not see that you were run out of ram, I would fire-up P95 Blend mode and run for 2 hours and if all passed in that P95 gave no errors and temps did not exceed 70c on the Cpu/Socket and did not exceed 62c on the Package/Core temps while monitoring with Free version of CPUID HWMonitor, then I would tell you to rock on man.
The change to a better power supply may have cured any errors and BSODs you were seeing and now you should know we do not recommend that particular board for overclocking, so if you have n0 P95 Blend failures just use your mis-matched ram. If there are no problems with stability...heck you will never know it is using mis-matched ram. Save your money and have some change in hand to upgrade where necessary if you really want to get some extra performance from overclocking.
Yes I know you guys are shocked in hearing this from the mobo police, but I have worked on customer computers off and on for years and most of them have far different goals than us that would overclock the washing machine if we thought we could.
RGone...ster.
EDIT:
Another reason that I am not so gungho to have him ditch his mis-matched ram that could work, is that he has an air-cooler for his cpu that I wonder if it will take tall heat spreader ram in the ram slots if he sells off all and gets 16 gigs of ram with tall heat spreaders. I am just hoping to see him get on with life and Adobe as painless as possible. If he wants to get OR needs some real performance out of an 8 core BD processor then he needs a thoughtful rebuild. I doubt he does care about anything but Adobe and ram.
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It costs like the Graphic card I have now.. (Asus - AMD Radeon HD 6670)
