January 6, 200620 yr A friend of mine was having trouble with his memory, so I offered to put it in my machine and run diagnostics on it. This resulted in the death of my machine (either the Athlon XP 2400+ or the motherboard).So yesterday I was feeling a bit impulsive, and I have splashed out on the following:Asus A8N-E Ultra mobo (Socket 939, Nforce 4 Ultra chipset)Amd Athlon 64 3700+, San Diego core, 1Mb L2 cachePowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO 256MB GDDR3Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB SATA 8MB Cache.The total cost (including shipping) is around
January 6, 200620 yr Congrats!!! My old computer is about the same as yours and my new computer is not even as good as your new. And the differences for me are huge...with the main being I bacame a VC flyer from a 2D panel flyer.Jason JasonFAA CPL SEL MEL IR CFI-I MEI AGI
January 6, 200620 yr Thanks. I have trouble with my memory all the time. I just thought it was old age. What kind of a machine do I need to put it into to get a diagnosis?DougPS: CRS is a terrible disease:-) Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
January 9, 200620 yr > Thanks. I have trouble with my memory all the time. I>just thought it was old age. What kind of a machine do I need>to put it into to get a diagnosis?>>Doug>>PS: CRS is a terrible disease>>:-)You don't need a special machine or PC. Google for "Memtest", download the ISO file, burn the ISO file to a CD, boot from that CD and it will soak test your memory modules. If errors are seen and you have more than one module, it isn't easy to work out which one may be at fault, but you can then remove the DIMMs one at a time to isolate which one may be at fault.BTW, my new hardware should be delivered today, and I'm watching the couriers web tracking page closely. Once the web page says it's been delivered, I may need to find a reason to "work from home" ;-)
January 10, 200620 yr Wow, I built the machine last night then sent a few hours installing WinXP, Office, and of course FS2004.Smooth silky frame rates, even at complex airports. Almost no texture popups, quick loading times.Far Cry runs brilliantly too, I've upped the graphics sliders and still get frame rates somewhere between 40-100 fps. All this with 4xAA!I'm a happy chappy. :-)
January 11, 200620 yr Looks good. Now you just need to OC that San Diego and get it running FX-57 speeds. ;)
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