Bobby Heid
bheid at appdevgrp.com
Thu Aug 5 11:49:52 CDT 2004
Hi all, About 6 months ago, I built my current home pc. It consists of a P4 3.0Ghz, 1GB Corsair TwinX 3200 RAM, Asus P4C800-E Deluxe MB, Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound card, and an Antec True Power 480 PS. All the above were new. I used the HDs, Nic, and TI 4200 GPU from my old system. At the time, I could not get Memtest86+ v1.1 to run, it would lock up. I was trying to dual boot XP Pro with 98 (and eventually Linux), and while I got 98 installed, it would lock up. Norton ghost 2004 would also lock up. After I got XP up and running, there seemed to be no problems. I would occasionally (1-2 times/month) get a blue screen, but I figured that it was something that the kids did. Well, I went on to Corsair's forums the other day and started looking around. They recommended that someone running pretty much what I have to try testing their RAM at 2-3-3-5. So I switched from SPD to manual and set my memory at 2-3-3-5. MemTest86+ 1.2 did not lock up! But it did give a few errors. So I changed to 2-3-3-6 and let memtest run all night. It got through the full 12 tests 5 or 6 times with no errors. I also ran it once through Microsoft's RAM testing program without any errors (also no errors in one pass at 2-3-3-5). Is this a good setting for the RAM? If not, what should I be setting it at? I am not currently doing any over clocking. On a side note, how do ya'll think that the 4200 might do on Doom 3? Thanks, Bobby