Recent content by RicP

Generally two ways, either from the BIOS POST text or via an app. My preferred app is CPU-Z which can be found here.. http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

*** [Start: Final Edit] *** This problem has been resolved, although not in the way many who read the thread title would expect (ie: my own stupidity). !3thmonkey gives some good feedback on the upgrade path so that's good but essentially 90% of my comments are based on a false premise (in...

I realise it's bad show to bump your own thread, but I am at my wits end with this. No amount of reading seems to give a consistent answer and I am in a location where I have no access to any hardware tools to do any testing. :(

I've run into a very similar situation. If I take the RAM out the board beeps, put the RAM back in no beep although everything starts up (fan/hdd). No BIOS success beep and no video display from either the dedicated card (an AMD 6670) or from the integrated one (I think an AMD 3000). I don't...

My setup: FX 4170 (4.2Gz), 16Gb (2x8Gb DDR3 1300), 2Gb 6670 GPU all on a 760GM-21FX. Now, I have had the PC in a dusty house for a while and decided to give my CPU fan a little clean, and it desperately needed it as it was completely matted up by an oily fluff. So carefully I take a thin knife...

I had actually forgotten I had Afterburner installed, I had used it for FPS benchmarking before. It only allows me to increase the core clock from 800 to 900Mhz, with the memory clock able to go from 500 to 650. Not sure if this is something that Afterburner is detecting of it's just a simple...

Just a quick update, I ran MSI Afterburner on the card and it seemed to accept overclocking from 800Mhz (core clock) to 900Mhz without artifacts or blue screening. This manages to add an extra 5 or 6 FPS which is putting me into the range where some of the games are playable. If I combine that...

It does seem the more I read about it, the more problems I find regarding the FX-4170. This was one of the first pre-builds I have bought in probably over a decade, and I'm guessing it was cheap (-ish for the UK) because they didn't do well and now the market is flooded with them, meaning every...