Posts by n3rdalert

Haha oh man! Rookie mistake. Well, I am here to learn after all! Thanks for the valuable insights. I'll follow those instructions first thing tomorrow and get back to you on the results. For now, it is bed time! Thanks for all the help...

Are you talking about the paste that was already on the underside of the sink? Now that I think about, I did not remove it. I did not think it would make a significant difference if I had left it on or not.

haha no dumb questions at all. Ask away! It is indeed the stock cooler. And the fan on it is definitely whirring it's little heart out. I should mention, though, for a processor such as the i7 which is so prone to easily getting...

Holy cow! So I ran it for only 2 minutes and my core temps got up to 84C! No crashes or anything. But I stopped it cause I'm kind of scared to make it keep running when the temps are that high. Or should I just let it keep going? :S 

Quote:Originally Posted by n3rdalert I don't know what prime 95 is. O_O Mind elaborating? Scratch that. Found it out! Downloading now.

Quote:Originally Posted by struddles thats a possibility if your cpu was overclocked. if it isn't and this is the cause the cpu is in my opinion defective. the cpu should run at stock speeds at stock vcore (in other words it should...

Woops. Forgot to answer your other questions! I have not tried taking out the sticks and only using one at a time to see if one might be bad. If I did this, would I know immediately if one was bad? For instance, would the (hypothetical)...

Hmm. It can happen out of nowhere for no reason. Like, sometimes I'll come home to my computer and I'll have a message on the desktop that says windows recovered from an unexpected shutdown. However, when I'm trying to run a game (for...

None taken. Here to learn after all. And yes indeed. Showing total physical memory installed is 16.0GB.

Okay. Just went into the BIOS to take a gander (I'm glad the Z68 board I have makes getting this information easy, at least). Under the memory management it shows all 4 of my memory modules as it should. And next to each one it says 4096...