Well recently I just built a new computer and the specs on it are...
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 1GHz FSB 1GB Cache Socket 939 @ 2.75ghz
Harddrive: 200gb 7200RPM MAXTOR 16GB Cache(real hd) & 80gb 7200RPM MAXTOR 8mb cache(used for storage)
Motherboard: ASUS A8V DELUXE Socket 939 VIA K8T800 Pro ATX
Ram: OCZ Gold Series with heatspreaders 2GB (4 x 512mb) PC3200 Timings 2-2-2-5
VideoCard: Gforce fx5900XT 128mb
PowerSupply: Antec TrueControl 550w
Cooling: 2 Additional Case Fan
Case: CoolerMaser CAC-T01
OS: Xp Professional
Everything in my computer is brandnew except for my 80gb harddrive and my videocard. I know my videocard may not be up to par with the rest of my specs, but the game I mainly play is a Direct3d game so it does not require me to have that great of a graphics card. I was able to easily OC my processor from the stock 2.2ghz to 2.75ghz with the stock heatsink and fan and idle it runs at 34c and load around 41c load. The ram I have is OCZ GOLD SERIES WITH HEATSPREADER and the timings on it are 2-2-2-5. When I go in my bios to try to make sure that my timings are set to those values for best performance there arent only 4 ram settings, there are like 10 and most of them are abbreviations, so idk which things I need to set to 2-2-2-5. All of them are set to auto, idk if that means it sets it to 2-2-2-5 because it does that automatically or what I was just wondering because I paid lots of money for this new comp and want to get the best perforance as possible out of it. Thanks for your time.
EDIT: After manually seting those 4 ram timings, setting the memclock to DDR333, and the 2t command to auto(was already on auto) my fps increased from 171 to 219 on the stress test in Counter-Strike:Source. The stress test takes your computer through a "map" that has all different graphics that you may come accross in the game and it finds your average fps throughout the whole test. Tthanks for the help I really appreciate it.
I have one more question but it does not have anything to do with my ram... I have the stock heatsink and fan on my proccessor and I have it OC'd @ 2.75ghz and idle my proccessors temp is 34c, load 43c. Before my computer parts came in I went and purchased some artic silver 5 thermal compound to put on my processor, but when I was installing it, it already had the stock amd compound stuff so I just used that. I know it will only probably make a 5degree or less difference in my processor temp, but I really want to put the artic silver 5 on it to keep my processor running as cool as possible. How would I go about doing this? These are the steps I was planning on taking when doing so...
1. taking the little latch/level thingy on the heatsink fan and releasing it then unhooking both sides from my motherboard
2. i tug gently and see if it will come off of the processor, but if it doesnt want to move I need to take a blow dryer and hold it on it to lossin the compound?
3. once I get them apart I wipe the proccessor and heatsink clean with a lentfree-cloth
4. i take a decent amount of thermal compound and rub it around on the bottom of the heatsink, then I put a tiny little drop on the middle of the proccessor and rub it around?
5. i put the heatsink and fan back on the processor push it down gently
6. clamp my heatsink and fan onto the mobo as I done so before
Please let me know what you think of these steps and if any of them are wrong, or if I left anything out that I need to do when doing this. Thanks again for your help guys I really appreciate it.
Well I got my artic silver thermal compound installed and everything seems to be running fine, thanks for all of your help guys.
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 1GHz FSB 1GB Cache Socket 939 @ 2.75ghz
Harddrive: 200gb 7200RPM MAXTOR 16GB Cache(real hd) & 80gb 7200RPM MAXTOR 8mb cache(used for storage)
Motherboard: ASUS A8V DELUXE Socket 939 VIA K8T800 Pro ATX
Ram: OCZ Gold Series with heatspreaders 2GB (4 x 512mb) PC3200 Timings 2-2-2-5
VideoCard: Gforce fx5900XT 128mb
PowerSupply: Antec TrueControl 550w
Cooling: 2 Additional Case Fan
Case: CoolerMaser CAC-T01
OS: Xp Professional
Everything in my computer is brandnew except for my 80gb harddrive and my videocard. I know my videocard may not be up to par with the rest of my specs, but the game I mainly play is a Direct3d game so it does not require me to have that great of a graphics card. I was able to easily OC my processor from the stock 2.2ghz to 2.75ghz with the stock heatsink and fan and idle it runs at 34c and load around 41c load. The ram I have is OCZ GOLD SERIES WITH HEATSPREADER and the timings on it are 2-2-2-5. When I go in my bios to try to make sure that my timings are set to those values for best performance there arent only 4 ram settings, there are like 10 and most of them are abbreviations, so idk which things I need to set to 2-2-2-5. All of them are set to auto, idk if that means it sets it to 2-2-2-5 because it does that automatically or what I was just wondering because I paid lots of money for this new comp and want to get the best perforance as possible out of it. Thanks for your time.
EDIT: After manually seting those 4 ram timings, setting the memclock to DDR333, and the 2t command to auto(was already on auto) my fps increased from 171 to 219 on the stress test in Counter-Strike:Source. The stress test takes your computer through a "map" that has all different graphics that you may come accross in the game and it finds your average fps throughout the whole test. Tthanks for the help I really appreciate it.
I have one more question but it does not have anything to do with my ram... I have the stock heatsink and fan on my proccessor and I have it OC'd @ 2.75ghz and idle my proccessors temp is 34c, load 43c. Before my computer parts came in I went and purchased some artic silver 5 thermal compound to put on my processor, but when I was installing it, it already had the stock amd compound stuff so I just used that. I know it will only probably make a 5degree or less difference in my processor temp, but I really want to put the artic silver 5 on it to keep my processor running as cool as possible. How would I go about doing this? These are the steps I was planning on taking when doing so...
1. taking the little latch/level thingy on the heatsink fan and releasing it then unhooking both sides from my motherboard
2. i tug gently and see if it will come off of the processor, but if it doesnt want to move I need to take a blow dryer and hold it on it to lossin the compound?
3. once I get them apart I wipe the proccessor and heatsink clean with a lentfree-cloth
4. i take a decent amount of thermal compound and rub it around on the bottom of the heatsink, then I put a tiny little drop on the middle of the proccessor and rub it around?
5. i put the heatsink and fan back on the processor push it down gently
6. clamp my heatsink and fan onto the mobo as I done so before
Please let me know what you think of these steps and if any of them are wrong, or if I left anything out that I need to do when doing this. Thanks again for your help guys I really appreciate it.
Well I got my artic silver thermal compound installed and everything seems to be running fine, thanks for all of your help guys.