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eXg. focus · Post by **eXg. focus** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:21 pm

I fried my ram by playing Warsow all graphics settings maxed (with the new rendering etc.) @ 500fps.

So I got some new ram, went from pc6400 to pc8500, and the heat spreaders are far better than the ones on the G.sKill. It came in last night.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820145173

So hopefully I won't be frying my ram anymore.

supercat1 · Post by **supercat1** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:25 pm

good lord, you literally fried your ram? what is your mobo again? the 680i?

eXg. focus · Post by **eXg. focus** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:35 pm

eXg. supercat1 wrote:good lord, you literally fried your ram? what is your mobo again? the 680i?

Yeah, what I think happened was Nick (mezzfit) had come over to test some of his "sli" ram and I know I changed the timings and mhz back, but I'm thinking I forgot to put the memvoltage back down to what it was supposed to be for my sticks.

oops

yes, 680i

supercat1 · Post by **supercat1** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:05 am

the 680i supports pc8500 ram? have you noticed any performance increase from using the faster ram?

Post by **eXg. Pun1sher** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:09 am

Gotta hate when that happens

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Like SC asked, did you do some MemTest to see what the gains were ?

PuN

eXg. focus · Post by **eXg. focus** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:30 pm

Windows loads faster, games load faster, that's about it. And yes Supercat, it detected the correct speed and timings right off the bat. It supports up to 1200mhz for EPP capable ram. Mine runs at that speed too, I've discovered, but I'm running it at 1066 instead. After the last set I'm not taking any chances.

eXg. Mezzfit · Post by **eXg. Mezzfit** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:05 pm

Oh for pete's sake that's dominator ram.... Your supposed to run it full tilt boogie! Well you know how I am at least. You can always RMA it and borrow mine >:-)

eXg. Jago-Vs-Fulgore · Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:38 pm

Oh my RAM!!!...

Nice ram dude

supercat1 · Post by **supercat1** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:06 pm

focus, what is your boot time (approx) with the old ram versus now? also, have you done any boot optimization on your rig aside from the memory change? i know right now my boot is at about 55 seconds from push of the button to fully operating desktop.

eXg. focus · Post by **eXg. focus** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:32 pm

tbh I couldn't tell ya. It's definitely faster, but I never timed it of course, and I can't exactly test it with the old ram, either. lol

supercat1 · Post by **supercat1** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:30 pm

fair enough. i'm just wondering how much difference it has quantitatively made cause i'm an engineer and a dork. XD

but, if you haven't done any boot optimization i would highly suggest you do.