Recent content by bigsteve101

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    1080 GTX Sandybridge 2700k bottleneck % ?

    Thanks guys. Im not a hardcore gamer at all but just wanted some ideas of how my set-up would compare to a Skylake equivalent. I love the Sandybridge CPU's also and hope to run mine for a long as possible. Ill look into the RAM once I have the card, I appreciate it could be faster. Thanks
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    1080 GTX Sandybridge 2700k bottleneck % ?

    Hi Folks! Right im running 2700k @4600 32GB DDR3 1600 ROG Extreme - Z iV And a gtx 660...... Im wanting to upgrade from the 660 to the 1080, my board, and cpu run pcie 2.0 I believe. I have a nice fancy ROG 4k monitor which, believe it or not, the 660 runs perfectly for desktop/videos and...
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    32gb showing as 16gb in bios and windows but NOT in cpuz...

    Win 10 Pro, It ran for months as I say with no issues, yes 8x4 kit and Vengeance is on the QVL Its a real strange issue as CPUz can see it! But nothing else seems to be able to
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    32gb showing as 16gb in bios and windows but NOT in cpuz...

    Memtest done - all sticks fine Reseated water block 3 times, no change other than very small difference in idle temp when a little looser force used. Pins all fine Ram has been reseated countless times when doing the above combos Max memory is unchecked I guess the Motherboard has had it?
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    32gb showing as 16gb in bios and windows but NOT in cpuz...

    I have an issue with my ram Firstly - 2700k z68 Asus Corsair Ven, 4x8gb Now I ran this setup for about 3 months with no issues at all, after trying a different motherboard to test it, i then went back to the above setup. This time round Bios, Memtest and Windows shows only 16gb installed...