Skoad Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 I'll have to see how much i can get when i sell my paintball gun <--- poor college student sidenote: neweggs server probs are hurting my time killing ability. I might actually have to start doing homework. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMeeD Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 Your RAM is holding you back too. All your RAM must be running in dual or single. It will only run in dual if you pair both DIMMS by what you say it sounds like they are not paired and its running in single channel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kash Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 kashk5, I have OCed all my ATI cards with stock coolers and they OCed pretty well and kept pretty cool too so I am just curious as to where you get that thinking that you shouldn't even attempt to OC an ATI card on stock cooling. 554766[/snapback] Well, most normal people don't have ambient temperatures in the single digits. Seriously though. I think I'm being more biased from the 9800 series heat "issues". I was actually thinking more about warning him not to flash his card with stock cooling. Losing one's train of thought usually happens when two hysterical women burst into your room........ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snipermav Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 skoad where do you go to school at? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoad Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 (edited) Here is my timings, memory is probably my weakest puter knowledge. I just remembered looking at cpu-z that I have a 512 stick of vs and a 256 old leftover generic stick. I remember setting dual channel in bios on the assumption that i could run 256 of the 512 paired with the seperate stick of 256 in dc, it says Dual up in that box don't know if that means its working or not. snipermav from seek42 - UMR Edited October 4, 2005 by Skoad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kash Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 In order to run dual channel with three sticks, you would need two 256 sticks, and one 512 stick. That way it sorta runs like 512 each. Of course, this all depends on the mobo or if I just pulled that little fact out of my butt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugbug3311 Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 Id just get a good setf of 512 of dual channel ram. That should be able to hold you over untill you get a new mobo and cpu. I see that as your biggest bottleneck right now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 The hiccups your experience is your system having to load junk for your Hardrive/pagefile just get some good ram, that mobo/ cpu is OK but the Ram is a big No No. You must have at least 1 gig of some good low latency ram Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snipermav Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 snipermav from seek42 - UMR 554797[/snapback] Heh, I was pretty sure it was you, just checking though. You cannot run dual channel with three sticks. The board will automatically set it to single channel. You can only run dual channel if you have multiples of 2 sticks of RAM (ie. 2, 4). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 Heh, I was pretty sure it was you, just checking though. You cannot run dual channel with three sticks. The board will automatically set it to single channel. You can only run dual channel if you have multiples of 2 sticks of RAM (ie. 2, 4). 554908[/snapback] Huh, i didn't think that socket A/Athlon xp had dual channal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoad Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Think I'll just sell it and pick up a card about half its price. Any recommendations? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravy Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 6600GT or 6800 vanilla these cards even run as fast as the new ATI x1600XT ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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