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After reading your posts and tips, the problems are my standards and lack of experience. I am getting a very similar score to what dkapke said a similar build had. And I didn't know GTA 4 was written bad. Thanks everyone for your help I learned a lot and decided that I should probably upgrade...

After updating the driver and taking out a stick of ram, my score on 3DMark06 has increased by an average of 300 points which is decent. I am still not getting the performance that I would like and might consider getting the 6850 or something similar. To answer your question GOOfy, the...

Alright thanks for the tips guys. I will run a few benchmarks, then try the RAM fix, and re-run the benchmarks, posting the results here. I will also seriously consider upgrading to a 6850 or 70. Their prices are quite reasonable anyways.

OK, so about 8 months ago I build my first system. I had a reasonable budget but nowhere close to what I needed for an i7 build or anything. But I am ready for a quick upgrade and was wondering what the bottleneck in my system is. When I am multitasking, browsing the web, watching a movie...

Hi, a while ago I installed ubuntu AND windows 7 on the same hard drive. Everything worked fine. I had since removed ubuntu completely and replaced the drive with a new drive. On that new drive I only installed Windows 7. I wanted to dual boot with ubuntu on a second NEW drive. I installed it...

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I tried upping the voltage and that did not work at all. I ran the memtest individually for each stick of ram and I identified which stick was not working. I tried playing my games with only the working piece of ram, and the problem is gone. Thank you very much everyone for you help this has...

Initially I thought that the problem was my video card because every game that I opened would crash after about ten minutes. But after a post in the Graphix Card forum on this site, many people suggested that the problem sounded like unstable memory, and that I do the memtest from memtest.org. I...

OK, I ran the memtest and after about 10 minutes and about 60 000 errors I figured something was wrong. I exited the memtest and checked to make sure all of the settings were right in the bios and they were. 8-8-8-21, and 1.5v. Just like the RAM says on the package AND on the sticks of ram...

Forgot to mention PSU it is a Corsair 450w. I specifically spent an extra 50 or so to get corsair just to that it would be a quality PSU, I really hope its enough for my rig... Anyways I downloaded and ran Hardware monitor for about 10 minutes while I ran Age of Empires 3 until the point that...

Hi, I have recently built a new system with the following specs: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Gygabyte AM3 processor 770TA-UD3 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128431 AMD Phenom II X4 955...