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I'm crossing my fingers someone can help me out here. I just upgraded my computer from XP x86 to Win7 x64.. I had 2gb of ram before so wanted to upgrade.. I purchased 4 sticks of the Gskill F2-8500CL5D-4GBPI-B memory to give myself 8gb total. I checked ahead of time to ensure I could run this and everywhere I looked I was assured.
So.. Initially after installing the ram everything was fine. Booted back up post Windows 7 install and my machine registered 8gb. Everything ran great for a while. Suddenly a BSOD.. I had to swap back to my original Corsair Dominator chips. I looked around and saw I should manually bump my voltages up to 2.1. I started small and bumped to 2.0 and all ran fine for a bit. Even played a few rounds of BF3 at max settings. All was well. Or so I thought.
While watching a movie today I got another BSOD and this time tried adjusting the clock speed. Ended up screwing everything up and had to reset my CMOS config. Lost my raid.. rebuilt it.. currently running with 2gb of corsair ram. So now I ask for help..
Here are my system specs... Courtesy of CPU-Z
Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Codename Wolfdale
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 775 LGA (0x0)
CPUID 6.7.6
Extended CPUID 6.17
Core Stepping C0
Technology 45 nm
TDP Limit 65 Watts
Core Speed 1999.9 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 6.0 x 333.3 MHz
Rated Bus speed 1333.3 MHz
Stock frequency 3166 MHz
Chipset
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Northbridge NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI SPP rev. A2
Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI MCP rev. A3
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x8
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 2048 MBytes
Channels Dual
Memory Frequency 400.0 MHz (5:6)
CAS# latency (CL) 5.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 5
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 18
Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 22
Command Rate (CR) 2T
Display adapter 0
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Revision A1
Memory size -2048 MB
PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x10DE (0x3842)
Model ID 0x1244 (0x1559)
Performance Level Default
Core clock 50.5 MHz
Shader clock 101.0 MHz
Memory clock 135.0 MHz
Performance Level 2D Desktop
Core clock 405.0 MHz
Shader clock 810.0 MHz
Memory clock 324.0 MHz
Performance Level 3D Applications
Core clock 900.0 MHz
Shader clock 1800.0 MHz
Memory clock 2004.0 MHz
I'm not looking to overclock anything to the max. I just want a stable system.. If anyone can offer up some suggestions I'll appreciate it. Thanks a lot!
-Jon
So.. Initially after installing the ram everything was fine. Booted back up post Windows 7 install and my machine registered 8gb. Everything ran great for a while. Suddenly a BSOD.. I had to swap back to my original Corsair Dominator chips. I looked around and saw I should manually bump my voltages up to 2.1. I started small and bumped to 2.0 and all ran fine for a bit. Even played a few rounds of BF3 at max settings. All was well. Or so I thought.
While watching a movie today I got another BSOD and this time tried adjusting the clock speed. Ended up screwing everything up and had to reset my CMOS config. Lost my raid.. rebuilt it.. currently running with 2gb of corsair ram. So now I ask for help..
Here are my system specs... Courtesy of CPU-Z
Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Codename Wolfdale
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 775 LGA (0x0)
CPUID 6.7.6
Extended CPUID 6.17
Core Stepping C0
Technology 45 nm
TDP Limit 65 Watts
Core Speed 1999.9 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 6.0 x 333.3 MHz
Rated Bus speed 1333.3 MHz
Stock frequency 3166 MHz
Chipset
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Northbridge NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI SPP rev. A2
Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI MCP rev. A3
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x8
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 2048 MBytes
Channels Dual
Memory Frequency 400.0 MHz (5:6)
CAS# latency (CL) 5.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 5
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 18
Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 22
Command Rate (CR) 2T
Display adapter 0
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Revision A1
Memory size -2048 MB
PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x10DE (0x3842)
Model ID 0x1244 (0x1559)
Performance Level Default
Core clock 50.5 MHz
Shader clock 101.0 MHz
Memory clock 135.0 MHz
Performance Level 2D Desktop
Core clock 405.0 MHz
Shader clock 810.0 MHz
Memory clock 324.0 MHz
Performance Level 3D Applications
Core clock 900.0 MHz
Shader clock 1800.0 MHz
Memory clock 2004.0 MHz
I'm not looking to overclock anything to the max. I just want a stable system.. If anyone can offer up some suggestions I'll appreciate it. Thanks a lot!
-Jon
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