ASUS M4A79XTD EVO
G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
Athlon II X2 255 Regor
Stock Heatpipe Cooler from a Windsor core Athlon 64X2
MSI Geforce 6800GT
Corsair TX750
Hi Folks,
I have read a bunch of threads in this forum where people are having trouble with this combination. Not to come off the wrong way, but I'm convinced that many of them simply don't know what they're doing. (the friendly tech guy isn't going to tell you that so I will) That doesn't make somebody a dumb@$$, it just means they're inexperienced. There are a whole list of things that can account for system instability. It seems to me that the memory is unfairly taking the fall in some of these cases.
Even buying different memory and having your machine suddenly work does not necessarily prove that there was a problem with the memory. I'm betting in many cases it proves that the user simply didn't have the patience and or intuition to twiddle with the computer long enough to find that sweet spot. If you don't want to have to do this at least sometimes then buy a machine from Best Buy. I've been building performance computers for quite a while now and to use the M4A79XTD EVO as an example, I've had this board for a couple months now and I'm still jackin around with the settings squeezing a bit more here and there out of it.
One thing to consider that gets overlooked a lot is your power supply. I mean quality. I had a 680 watt cheapie with alleged adequate amperage and good readings everywhere and while this machine was generally stable it would not pass OCCT or Everest and did blue screen on me occasionally. I put a Corsair TX750 in it and I can run torture tests all night.
I have this memory on this board running the bus at 270 and memory at 18000 (900) WITH the timings tightened below spec. Zero issues. The bottom line is I don't think the memory is to blame in a lot of these troubled cases. I'm not there so it could be a dozen things for all I know, but it's running for me on this board with an Athlon II Regor waaaay better than advertised. See the screen shot.
G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
Athlon II X2 255 Regor
Stock Heatpipe Cooler from a Windsor core Athlon 64X2
MSI Geforce 6800GT
Corsair TX750
Hi Folks,
I have read a bunch of threads in this forum where people are having trouble with this combination. Not to come off the wrong way, but I'm convinced that many of them simply don't know what they're doing. (the friendly tech guy isn't going to tell you that so I will) That doesn't make somebody a dumb@$$, it just means they're inexperienced. There are a whole list of things that can account for system instability. It seems to me that the memory is unfairly taking the fall in some of these cases.
Even buying different memory and having your machine suddenly work does not necessarily prove that there was a problem with the memory. I'm betting in many cases it proves that the user simply didn't have the patience and or intuition to twiddle with the computer long enough to find that sweet spot. If you don't want to have to do this at least sometimes then buy a machine from Best Buy. I've been building performance computers for quite a while now and to use the M4A79XTD EVO as an example, I've had this board for a couple months now and I'm still jackin around with the settings squeezing a bit more here and there out of it.
One thing to consider that gets overlooked a lot is your power supply. I mean quality. I had a 680 watt cheapie with alleged adequate amperage and good readings everywhere and while this machine was generally stable it would not pass OCCT or Everest and did blue screen on me occasionally. I put a Corsair TX750 in it and I can run torture tests all night.
I have this memory on this board running the bus at 270 and memory at 18000 (900) WITH the timings tightened below spec. Zero issues. The bottom line is I don't think the memory is to blame in a lot of these troubled cases. I'm not there so it could be a dozen things for all I know, but it's running for me on this board with an Athlon II Regor waaaay better than advertised. See the screen shot.
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