Hi, I've recently just replaced my old mobo, cpu and ram with new ones for my computer. In the beginning everything was working flawlessly. It was my first time assembling a computer so I was a bit nervous to turn it on, but it all went good.
Anyway, after maybe a week of playing around with it, I started noticing a bit of a problem. Whenever I play a game, I sometimes get a hangup and then a crash. This happened with SW: KOTOR (yes i started playing it again lol), Company of Heroes and Dragon Age. I've never had this problem before and now I have a growing suspicion that it's my RAM. I'm not going to run memtest yet until I'm absolutely sure, which is why I'm here. I've played other games as well, but not long enough to see it crash.
First of all, these are my specs.
Intel i5 760 @ 2800mhz
4GB G. Skill Ripjaws @1.5v, 1333mhz and 7-7-7-21
XFX HD 5770
MSI P55A-G55 motherboard
A couple of things to note here as they could be potential problems.
My ram is spec'd to run at 7-7-7-21 but my mobo has them at 9-9-9-24
My Windows 7 is at 32-bit and only runs RAM at 3.24Ghz
Can you guys see the problem right away or should I run the memtest now to see.
Sorry If I'm not as specific as you guys would like, I'm a newb at this stuff.
Anyway, after maybe a week of playing around with it, I started noticing a bit of a problem. Whenever I play a game, I sometimes get a hangup and then a crash. This happened with SW: KOTOR (yes i started playing it again lol), Company of Heroes and Dragon Age. I've never had this problem before and now I have a growing suspicion that it's my RAM. I'm not going to run memtest yet until I'm absolutely sure, which is why I'm here. I've played other games as well, but not long enough to see it crash.
First of all, these are my specs.
Intel i5 760 @ 2800mhz
4GB G. Skill Ripjaws @1.5v, 1333mhz and 7-7-7-21
XFX HD 5770
MSI P55A-G55 motherboard
A couple of things to note here as they could be potential problems.
My ram is spec'd to run at 7-7-7-21 but my mobo has them at 9-9-9-24
My Windows 7 is at 32-bit and only runs RAM at 3.24Ghz
Can you guys see the problem right away or should I run the memtest now to see.
Sorry If I'm not as specific as you guys would like, I'm a newb at this stuff.