Putty Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Keep at it, within a year you will be putting mac-daddy systems together for your friends. It says alot about a person to get on here and ask intelligent questions with no fear of learning. Hit all the technical forums and you will learn alot, as well as the current benchmarking and testing of new product sites that specialize in that. (Hardocp.com, anandtech.com, etc.) What separates the good builders from the bad is research. Getting on all the forums that support every manufacturer of the assorted products, and look for the consistent theme, whether it be problems or accolades. You usually have to wait awhile for alot of the stuff to surface. A good builder will interview a client and seek the best measure of their monetary constraints with changes in software and the inherent demands on existing hardware. If your a gamer plan on being outpaced within 6 months to a year as games are starting to take advantage of 240 pin, dual cores (quad cores soon), and SLI. The SLI games, when they kick in will render the single card configs unable to run them. VISTA will be a resource hog with a minimum of 2GB or RAM, so plan on 4 GB of RAM to run the new games with SLI power requirements hitting the 1000 watt range.... etc. etc. etc. There are some great tools out there for the serious builder that take alot of the guesswork out of troubleshooting. http://www.ultra-x.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckbradley Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 Well guess what? To get an RMA from OCZ they make you go through tech support. The tech asked us to reinstall the supposed bad ram and to bump the voltage on the ram to 2.1. He said thats what they are supposed to be run at but the MB defaulted to 1.8. So Austin had some time tonight and tried it. Its been running memtest for 2 hours now and no errors. He wants let it run tests all night. Is that a good idea or does it matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Will not hurt to run it, but after few hours the continued testing is redundant. IMO. There are some better memtesters out there but use what you got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckbradley Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 I am writing this email from the new computer and have been working on it all week without one lockup. Have the original RAM installed but Austin did what the tech asked him to do on the voltage. I want to express my deepest appreciation for all the help. He was stuck and frustrated. Thank you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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