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Nattan

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  1. Have you flashed your board to the latest Bios? If you don't want to flash it then you can manually raise the IMC voltage and see if that helps. X79 chips don't exactly love fast memory' date=' nor do they need it. You could just set it to 1600 and some nice, tight timings. Are you using mem86 or the HCI memtest? [/quote']

    mem86 version 2.4.0

    I wouldn't be looking at the RAM as the issue but rather either the CPU or the motherboard. I say this because of what you said regarding different channels having different issues. The CPU could also be a possibility as that contains the memory controller. Do you have another set of RAM you could borrow from a friend and swap in or another system that you can run MemTest on with this RAM?

    I only have one set of ram and only one lga 2011 system

    Have you flashed your board to the latest Bios? If you don't want to flash it then you can manually raise the IMC voltage and see if that helps. X79 chips don't exactly love fast memory' date=' nor do they need it. You could just set it to 1600 and some nice, tight timings. Are you using mem86 or the HCI memtest? [/quote']

    Last bios update was around 3 months ago, so its not super out of date if it is. mem86

    Hey' date=' i'd like to say that i have a very similar problem, maybe i can help you find a workaround/solution. So, first of all, my problem: i had a 2 4gb stick dual channel vengeance , i put them in the black slots on a asus p8h77-v le, after 2 months i started to have some crazy crashes, memtest showed the stick near the cpu with tons of errors, the other was fine, and at the same time i had a xms3 8gb stick in the blue slot, it was also fine, i RMA the vengeance kit, got a brand new one, after a month in the same setup, the stick on the far right, black slot got tons of errors, the xms on blue was fine, now i am sure it is my mobo, i can't find a reason to be my CPU, altough i ran it for a while with 106 bclk, but it should be fine, so i suggest getting an error free stick and test all the lanes and only use the ones that will not give you errors after a period of time if you can't remember which were where, and don't use your friend's, you will damage it, you can always RMA the board, i'll do that once i have the money[/quote']

    well i did try this, but the computer refused to boot with just one stick in certain lanes, but tested perfectly with two and ran memtest with 0 errors, so i am not sure what exactly is causing the issue.

  2. Well I am having a lot of memory errors and at this point I am not sure if its my ram or my motherboard.

    Ram:

    Mushkin Enhanced Redline 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226274

    Motherboard:

    ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131798

    What i have done:

    -I have run memtest with all the ram sticks and I got over 65k errors on some particular tests.

    -Pulled all the ram and test each stick one by one ( marked the ones that had errors )

    -RMA a set of ram i have 32GB total, with 16GB ( 4x4 sets )

    -the New rma i got off the rma, put all those sticks in ran test for 2 hours and came back with over 900 errors

    -booted to windows played a game and had tons of crashes.

    -decided that the ram must not be the issue, ran a test on one stick for 4 hours 0 errors about 20 passes or so. then i took that same stick and tried it in different channels, computer would not boot on any of the second lane channels with out another stick in the dimm 1 slot. ( black lanes, the blue ones worked in any lane )

    This is my second RMA on this ram, I am not sure what else to do aside ask for a full refund ( not sure i will get it since i purchased the ram from newegg a year ago, and would be asking for the refund from the company)

    soo out of 12 sticks only 2 are decent, and two only run with minor error ranges under 100 ( lowest is 20 per full 1-10 test pass and the other is 100 )

    Any suggestions?

  3. Well if you are like me and have more than one monitor, it can be a pain to turn them all on and off ( i have 3 ).

    I use this free program called Nir command:

    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

    It allows you control a lot of functionality of your pc and it is very easy to set up with desktop shortcuts.

    Example:

    I have a shortcut on my desktop that puts my computer to sleep along with all my monitors:

    target: nircmdc.exe cmdwait 6000 monitoroff cmdwait 1000 standby

    it turns off your monitors in 6 seconds then puts, the computer to sleep. this way you can cancel it if you didnt mean to. Then you just hit a key on your keyboard to wake everything, you will have to configure power settings to ssd's if you want to wake using them, never have them sleep otherwise the pc doesn't wake properly.

    the program has a lot of functionality aside from this, but it is what I tend to use it for the most.

  4. If your a person like me and you have over 6TB of hardrive space full of movies then a Media PC is for you :) plus XBMC and PLEX are the boom' date=' and you can buy a 4 channel DVR recorder mcard pci-e card and pay $2 for a Mcard with you local t.v. provider and get every channel that you would usually pay $120 for a month and only pay $10 a month :) o lots of savings and good investments oh yeah :P, That's why you would build a Media pc.[/quote']

    why would they rent you a card if your not paying for the tv programming?

  5. I have never seen the point of having a media pc, in my case I have a "smart" tv which is crap aside from the fact that it has built in wifi and can get content off my pc. The whole control your pc from your couch seems kind of dead to me, I can control my pc in the other room from my phone and that always with me and then stream videos to the tv or even play music.The only other reason I would use one would be to set up a capture card and record tv, but then that seems pointless as I get a free multi-room dvr from Verizon that handles 3 shows at once ( 1 watch 2 record ).

    so does anyone actually have a use for a media center or a home theater pc.

  6. isnt that what i said? mbps= megabits-per-second? When i was referring to my router I was stating that I never saw anything over 20 megabits per second on wifi. Using the verizon router i see 80mbps or Mbps, but that doesn't cut it because it has a lot of restart issues.

    my router suffers because it has internal antenna's and there is about 20 other wireless networks in the area ( apartment living )

  7. I just got a new phone and its time to get a dock for my truck, I am looking something sturdy and I would like to be able to have the phone in landscape mode for navigation features.

    Any recommendations on brands for docks? I have seen a lot that looked good but just failed, either they got permanently attached to your dash or never stayed in place.

    So main features I am looking for

    -Charge phone

    -Landscape mode

    -easy to remove and move around

    Edit: Really looking for personal experience or recommendations, since i can find tons of ones that fit my needs with a simple google search

  8. and the reason I dont like the 7970 is because of the 3GB ram compared to the 6
    If you are talking about the 7990 with 6GB of VRAM' date=' I'd just like you to know that it's 6GB combined, but you can only use 3GB because each GPU on the card is 3GB each, so you will be limited to only 3GB. So technically a 7990 is 2x7970s w/3GB of VRAM. [/quote']

    So the memory still mirrors even if it is on the same card? I thought that was only the case when sli-ing/crossfire two separate cards.

  9. Hey, I am currently running a 3x1 (three acer GD235Hz @ 120hz total screen res is 5760 x 1080) display with two hd 4870x2 cards ( not sli, since they are 10.1 and dont support eye-infinity), I was looking to upgrade my graphics and the card(s) I had in mind are the "7990", may go with a devil 13 debating if i should just get their stock 7990 anyways here is the link for the cards.

    Also, my single card vs a 7970

    http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=572&card2=663

    reason why i think i will only need 1 7990, but still not tooo sure

    Questions:

    Will 1 card be able to power all 3 monitors and game around 120 FPS ( I want to use v-sych with my monitors) ?( Crysis, League of Legends, BF3, Borderlands are the main games i am currently playing now.)

    Reason for upgrade:

    -Eyeinfinity support

    -Current cards are starting to slow down and not even dx11

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