just got a new p4p800 deluxe motherboard and a new P4 3.0 Ghz CPU but,,, I am using 512M ddr 3200 from Crucial
and it runs everything fine in XP but when I play a game or render video it dumps back to window or reboots with no error report, it just dumps.
I had the Ram already (never had any problems with Crucial's memory before) and didnt want to explain to the wife why I needed to but new memory so I got to messing around and found that if I set to turbo mode and overclock to 20% with Asus's presets in the bios everything runs fine. So I am kind of forced to overclock and am running at 3.6Ghz and still have almost 20 degrees of overhead on the temps under a load.
I shouldnt complain about it but I still wonder why it is, maybe the power supply is weak at standard settings and gets enough voltage to the ram when it is bumped up.
I ran Memtest86 on it and it fails at the standard settings in the bios but passes when overclocked.
anyone else seen this sort of behavior?
thanks
and it runs everything fine in XP but when I play a game or render video it dumps back to window or reboots with no error report, it just dumps.
I had the Ram already (never had any problems with Crucial's memory before) and didnt want to explain to the wife why I needed to but new memory so I got to messing around and found that if I set to turbo mode and overclock to 20% with Asus's presets in the bios everything runs fine. So I am kind of forced to overclock and am running at 3.6Ghz and still have almost 20 degrees of overhead on the temps under a load.
I shouldnt complain about it but I still wonder why it is, maybe the power supply is weak at standard settings and gets enough voltage to the ram when it is bumped up.
I ran Memtest86 on it and it fails at the standard settings in the bios but passes when overclocked.
anyone else seen this sort of behavior?
thanks