blitz6804

Well, I have just entered the wonderful world of quad core processing. Accordingly, Xaser Brixfire is being retired. With my new Deneb mounted and my (defective) RAM in, I now dub my PC as Dragonier!

As I have said, my RAM is defective. This adds insult to injury! I ordered from Newegg on the 10th. They said it shipped on the 11th. 3-7 day shipping would indicate I would get it on the 18th. I got it on the 19th. My tracking number was not in the system until the 15th and even when it did, it never updated as to where the RAM was. NEVER again will I use Newegg's free shipping now that they swung over to DHL GlobalMail.

But I digress.

I put in the CPU, I put in the RAM, and boot it up stock. OCCT fails. Okay, so I try Prime95 x64 v 25.8. That fails. What the sod!? So I increase CPU voltage 50 mV. STILL fails. So I decide to drop the RAM to DDR2-800; and OCCT passes! What the heck!?!? So I put the CPU back to stock, and boot up Memtest86+. On the first pass, I had two errors on Test 8. It is presently running a second pass, and I have picked up six errors on Test 5 and one (so far) on Test 7. I have already gotten an RMA from Newegg (no RAM for a week! BOO!) but for my own sanity, I am going to do three full passes of Memtest86+ and print out the results for Newegg.

I will update as I try tinkering with it after I get the new RAM.

In the mean time... have some eyecandy:

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