PC help needed

[Daston]

Ah I dont get that either I get the republic of gamers splash screen then vista loads lol

 

any way of getting opengl32.dll working in vista as I cant run a benchmark without it and I want to see what these 8800's can do.

[silvershark44]

Really? Unless you overclock the chipset, it'll run at it's maximum spec'd bus speed won't it?

 

CPU-Z (freeware download from http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-138.zip ) should report the operating memory frequency.

 

In theory yes, however If you bung in ram which is too fast, your motherboard might not automatically limit it to the motherboards top speed. It may just try and hit what the ram wants to do, and hence cause the system to crash etc.

 

So in terms of trouble shooting for Daston, you cant assume that the ram is only running at a certain speed because the motherboard cant support it. When set to auto commands this if often the case. Thats why you need to manually select speeds etc to setup systems like this properly.

[carl0s]

In theory yes, however If you bung in ram which is too fast, your motherboard might not automatically limit it to the motherboards top speed. It may just try and hit what the ram wants to do, and hence cause the system to crash etc.

 

So in terms of trouble shooting for Daston, you cant assume that the ram is only running at a certain speed because the motherboard cant support it. When set to auto commands this if often the case. Thats why you need to manually select speeds etc to setup systems like this properly.

 

Well, I've never encountered such a situation in 9yrs of building computers. Admittedly, I don't bother building PCs anymore and so haven't done many in the last year, but I've still never seen a motherboard default to overclocking itself.