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    Hardware bottleneck and upgrade

    @sadams04 - I forgot to mention that No, I'm not overclocked, so far I've not found it necessary to do so (This is also because I only just barely know how to do this on CPU and RAM. and I know the motherboard is made for OC but due to it being a LGA1366 socket which is now no longer made it was...
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    Hardware bottleneck and upgrade

    Hi! First of all I'd like to apologize if I've chosen the wrong sub forum to post in! Now to my main issue, I find that my custom build is slowly starting to fall behind when it comes to new games. I'd really like to avoid that so I want to upgrade my PC so it can handle everything smoothly...
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    Unstable System

    Hey there! Yes I'am back with another issue, again, and it shares a correspondance with my last. I've got a problem with my computer, I've bought a set of ram from Corsair which is supposte to run at 1866MHz I've managed to get them to run at the 1866MHz, by overclocking my i7 3.2GHz CPU to...
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    Memory wont run at normal MHz

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    Memory wont run at normal MHz

    Alas, my problem have been solved, after I got my CPU to run with 3.6GHz I could simply push my memory to the desired 1800Mhz,NN Which leaves me a very happy person
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    Memory wont run at normal MHz

    Though it appears according to CPU-Z I'm only running with 1333MHz despite my bios is set for 1600
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    Memory wont run at normal MHz

    I've done abit fiddling and without enabling XMP I was able to boot up and everything untill I got to Windows, Windows contuniuesly crashed on me with DRIVER_CORRUPT_EXPOOL and a few others, this happend with the 1866MHz, even crashed when I tried to boot onto CD/DVD (windows disc) So, I set...
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    Memory wont run at normal MHz

    Where would that be in the BIOS? (Assuming it's there I'm to look)
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    Memory wont run at normal MHz

    Hey there. Sometime ago I posted a threat about finding a new motherboard for my LGA1366 CPU, well I have and I bought the Gigabyte GA-X58A-OC rev 1.0. Now the issue is that with the "new" ram I've bough (http://www.proshop.dk/RAM/Corsair-16GB-DDR3-1866MHz-(4x4)-2303145.html) these, when I...
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    Need Motherboard LGA1366

    Another question regarding the Sabertooth x58 :) I've peeked abit around then a issue popped to my mind, there's something about voltage difference from USA and then Europe standard thing...
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    Is it ok to turn on my new computer without graphics card.

    Pretty much what the guy(girl?) above me said, your motherboard wont take any damage from being booted up without a GPU, same goes for pretty much any component as you can use this "feature" to check for defect hardware. (i.e putting a component in one at a time to find out which is causing the...
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    Need Motherboard LGA1366

    Ah, all right, I guess one thing mobo's actually have in common are the screws that you need to for it to fit into the casing ^^ I'll be waiting for the refund from the shop of my RMA and will prop post pics of the new motherboard once it's installed :) thanks alot for the help!
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    Need Motherboard LGA1366

    Now that I've created the threat and we've gotten onto the Sabertooth x58 mobo, I might aswell ask, I've found a Sabertooth x58 to a rather cheap price, but there is no accesories and what not. I've got alot of cables and etc, both from my current installation but also from older onces, my...