Recent content by Manbutter911

Thank you so much! I was planning for the worst trying to figure out the least tedious way to do all this. As long as I don't goof something up, this should be super simple and was exactly what I was hoping for!

Looked through the forum a bit, and can't seem to find EXACTLY the answer I'm looking for, so here it is. Going to be building a new computer this weekend. My current computer has two hard drives. HDD 1 has OS and a storage partition, HDD 2 has ONLY steam installed on it. Current computer has...

Obviously I know these prices are no longer valid (although probably still within that price range unless it was a super sale) He has a 1000W PSU so there is no issue with power hogging GPU's. A little inside into the AMD mobos would be much appreciated too. I have looked around since then at...

I don't have another rig to try them on. I think I'm done trying them on my current one. Now the question is try to RMA them and get some money back if they are bad, or hold on to them for a new rig and take the chance of them being bad. Thanks for your help!

Well. I updated the BIOS and tried the new sticks one by one. I made sure my bios was running 1.5v and it was. When I tried one stick at a time, I got BSOD on both of them. Put my old sticks back in and now I'm having to repair windows. Everything worked after BIOS update, I made sure to check...

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try seeing if i can upgrade my BIOS first. I can't see the RAM being incompatible seeing as how it has exactly the same everything except its 8 gigs vs 4 gigs unless it is an issues with the "it's so much newer than everything" conundrum. I looked at that list...

Hello all you helpful persons out there, I just bought some new RAM to upgrade my old 4 gigs to 8 gigs. I did quite a bit of research about timings and voltages and ended up just getting RAM with exactly the same specs as my old, just bigger. Here is my current set up... Mobo - EVGA P55 : CPU...

Wow, thanks! I was just hoping for some input on AMD stuff, didn't expect hunting help. I had been looking at some things here and there for prices. The problem is though, that doesn't include a gpu and he is rocking gt 8600's so those definitely need some upgrading. That is why I was leaning...

I was hoping to keep the upgrades around 300. This number may be able to vary. But if I keep it low, the odds are better this can actually happen. I know this is limiting, but the benefit is he isn't looking to do this by tomorrow, so deals can be hunted for on some things. Just want some good...

Okay everyone, I need a bit of assistance. I have a buddy of mine that would like to upgrade his computer and do a bit of gaming on it. His old rig has an Asus P5N72-T Premium nForce 780i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 (super old mobo) and his RAM has failed plus it only supports DDR2 gimpy ram...

I will probably try all of these things. Starting with a new cord, then memtest, then seagate test, then Hirens. I figure if i can make sure it's not anything else other than the drive itself, it will make my life much easier. Thank you all so much for the advice. I'll post back early this week...

Mike, I already downloaded Hirens, DL speeds and space is not an issue so I have that, just gotta get it onto a CD now. When I unplugged the new HD, it was a little warmer than I expected. I have 6 bays and currently, the two I have are at the top directly next to each other. Maybe I'll move...