My Kingston Horror
Damn my hands hurt like hell from all this work! Pulling and shutting and pullinga nd shutting those gateson the Memory DIMMS to lock the memory into place.
First, I got my Kingston PC3200 C2 memory in today, wound up passing out in bed right after I got home from school. So I woke up a couple hours later, began putting in my new 1GB worth of the above fore-mentioned RAM. HyperX BTW.
Anyways, the fun part began when I put in the sticks and the system would turn on, but no post, no boot up, just the usual hated Black Screen and lots of repeating blinking lights on my Case. After putting them in-in every configuration I could think of between 1 Module and both modules at the same time in the 4 DIMMs I have. During which I tried my older RAM that worked just a few minutes before hand and BAM it would work perfectly fine.
Refusing to believe that the memory I ordered overnighted to my apartment, I kept trying and trying for a good hour, ugh my hands hurt still.
Eventually I just looked at the memory, staring at it with hatred and saw 2.6v, so I thought I might as well give it a try.
So I put back in m 1 stick of Corsair XMS DDR RAM that I knew would work, went into the BIOS and changed the Voltage to 2.6v, which BTW on my SINXP1394 MB is the HIGHEST it goes. After I changed it, rebooted, and shut down the system I took out the Corsair and put in one stick of the new Kingston RAM into the same exact DIMM.
IT WORKED!
So I shut down, put in the second stick in the second module so I could now have Dual Channel Mode. IT WORKED AGAIN!
Now that my system was up and running, and happy that my huge hands wouldn't have to creep into my system anymore, I started doing my usual Overclocking.
Kingston is reknown for Overclockability, so I set my FSB to 157, and my Memory had choices of (I am guessing off the top of my head right now) 371/393/418MHz speeds, 314MHz is default. Well at 314MHz I got 3500MBps in Sandra 2003, I upped this PC3200 400MHz Memory to the 418MHz mark, I mean 18 MHz is not something that should destablize this Memory!
My system wouldn't turn on.
So... after trying to getit to reboot, I realized I would have to once again, take out the memory, and put in the Corsair, then change the BIOS back to 2.6v and put back in the Kingston Memory. More finger loving goodness, not my sarcasm.
Well I fixed it, I set my memory timings to AUTO, set the memory to the 393Mhz area, and rebooted and it came on. Ran Sandra 2003, and it did 3800-3900MBps. Not shabby, but not what I want, I noticed my timings were 2.5/3/3/6 Which it is supposed to be 2/3/3/6 I think.
It currently runs and I am happy enough ATM. I wish I could set this memory to a higher voltage somehow, but I feel lost
If I ever destabilize my system, I know I will have to put in my Corsair RAM, which I am trying to sell. Imay have to take it off the market:bawling:
First, I got my Kingston PC3200 C2 memory in today, wound up passing out in bed right after I got home from school. So I woke up a couple hours later, began putting in my new 1GB worth of the above fore-mentioned RAM. HyperX BTW.
Anyways, the fun part began when I put in the sticks and the system would turn on, but no post, no boot up, just the usual hated Black Screen and lots of repeating blinking lights on my Case. After putting them in-in every configuration I could think of between 1 Module and both modules at the same time in the 4 DIMMs I have. During which I tried my older RAM that worked just a few minutes before hand and BAM it would work perfectly fine.
Refusing to believe that the memory I ordered overnighted to my apartment, I kept trying and trying for a good hour, ugh my hands hurt still.
Eventually I just looked at the memory, staring at it with hatred and saw 2.6v, so I thought I might as well give it a try.
So I put back in m 1 stick of Corsair XMS DDR RAM that I knew would work, went into the BIOS and changed the Voltage to 2.6v, which BTW on my SINXP1394 MB is the HIGHEST it goes. After I changed it, rebooted, and shut down the system I took out the Corsair and put in one stick of the new Kingston RAM into the same exact DIMM.
IT WORKED!
So I shut down, put in the second stick in the second module so I could now have Dual Channel Mode. IT WORKED AGAIN!
Now that my system was up and running, and happy that my huge hands wouldn't have to creep into my system anymore, I started doing my usual Overclocking.
Kingston is reknown for Overclockability, so I set my FSB to 157, and my Memory had choices of (I am guessing off the top of my head right now) 371/393/418MHz speeds, 314MHz is default. Well at 314MHz I got 3500MBps in Sandra 2003, I upped this PC3200 400MHz Memory to the 418MHz mark, I mean 18 MHz is not something that should destablize this Memory!
My system wouldn't turn on.
So... after trying to getit to reboot, I realized I would have to once again, take out the memory, and put in the Corsair, then change the BIOS back to 2.6v and put back in the Kingston Memory. More finger loving goodness, not my sarcasm.
Well I fixed it, I set my memory timings to AUTO, set the memory to the 393Mhz area, and rebooted and it came on. Ran Sandra 2003, and it did 3800-3900MBps. Not shabby, but not what I want, I noticed my timings were 2.5/3/3/6 Which it is supposed to be 2/3/3/6 I think.
It currently runs and I am happy enough ATM. I wish I could set this memory to a higher voltage somehow, but I feel lost
If I ever destabilize my system, I know I will have to put in my Corsair RAM, which I am trying to sell. Imay have to take it off the market:bawling:
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On top of that when I run mymemory at 392MHz or whatever speed it is, it can't even do thespecified speed at 2.6v, it shoudl do what it claims! Right now I run 314MHz
It's a nice board, but without the ability to actually change my VDIMM I am screwed pretty much
SiS chipset
Ijust added some AS Cermique :P I need to replace my OLD AS3
Seriously, I haven't looked into P4 boards much because I don't need to buy another mb OR cpu... However, I think the ABIT boards OC better than the ASUS does, although I'm honestly not totally sure. I can tell you that the tweo newest servers at work have ASUS P4C800-Deluxe boards, which is ASUS's 875 board, and they've been fine (but then, my dad won't let me overclock the servers either... and they've got 2.4Cs too... :bawling: )
//Edited for grammar (don't expect me to produce coherent messages at 11:50 at night, OK?
I put in an IS7 instead, it's ABIT, haven't owned an ABIT in a long while, I do miss them
Buying one of those boards is basicly like getting a discount on the ic7, as the is7865PE has been hacked for the Canterwoods PAT. Btw... if you buy an nf7-s from newegg you will get a v 2.0, but if you purchase a 1700+ they have been selling tbred A's recently!
If you need recommendations for a mobo all i can say is go abit or asus and make sure the chipset is either 875P or 865PE.
Yeah that is what it stands for, and I know it "supposedly" gives like 3-5% increase in speed, which sounds cool, but is it really?
Just gota messege from Newegg.com I have been charged! Damn I wish it were Monday now, so that my order would be here this week.