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swap slots? report results? do you have 4 slots or two? are your sticks staggered if you have 4 slots?

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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6 minutes ago, VioDuskar said:

swap slots? report results? do you have 4 slots or two? are your sticks staggered if you have 4 slots?

swapped slots, reseated them, 4 slots on mobo, running dual channel

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2 minutes ago, GigabyteGeForce said:

swapped slots, reseated them, 4 slots on mobo, running dual channel

Either faulty RAM slot or the ram itself. Try to run 1 and then run the other.

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3 minutes ago, GigabyteGeForce said:

swapped slots, reseated them, 4 slots on mobo, running dual channel

have you ran one stick at a time to see if one of the sticks are dead?

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Just now, VioDuskar said:

have you ran one stick at a time to see if one of the sticks are dead?

 

1 minute ago, SorryClaire said:

Either faulty RAM slot or the ram itself. Try to run 1 and then run the other.

built computer couple years ago, was showing 16gb ram usable in task manager, started up after months and now only 8gb usable.

 

if ram stick was dead windows wouldnt show that 16gb was installed physically on mobo, right?

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1 minute ago, GigabyteGeForce said:

 

built computer couple years ago, was showing 16gb ram usable in task manager, started up after months and now only 8gb usable.

 

if ram stick was dead windows wouldnt show that 16gb was installed physically on mobo, right?

depends on how dead it is, but normally no. normally you wouldn't get past POST

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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