AMD 939 & DDR Memory Question

[Slimfady]

Thank you all for your support,

The system has speed up a bit after removing two sticks, i'll do a bios update later on as it turned out to be a known bug that the 939 memory controler can sometimes refuse to fun 4 sticks in dual mode.

I used WD's HD diagnosis tool and it told me that my HD is fine. I'll try multiple defrags (i'm using perfect disk) to see if anything changes. I will also try to have a windows installation on my other SATA drive to see if it makes a difference since my current one is kinda old.

 

[lancer]

slim i have a feeling one of your sticks may be bad, and possibly slowing down the others. you say it should be 333 thats 2700 if i remember correctly and 400 is 3200, so it could be you mistakenly bought either one or two 2700 with the 3200 by mistake or a 3200 could be mislabeled, but instead be a 2700, i've seen this a few times myself.

If you say your games are working flawlessly. i don't think it is a h/d problem or probably a mem issue apart from what i said above. i would almost be inclined to believe it to be a CPU issue, as the processes may not be lining up correctly for process by the CPU, leading me to believe its your cpu failing, or if you have o/c'ed it bring it back to default values, do you have another amd chip you could test in your machine. The only reason i think this is because when you are on the desktop running multiple threads by opening multiple problems the machine is locking up, with a games its pretty much running a single thread.

I'd probably bet on this being the issue, but i still think you should check all your mem as well as a seperate issue to make sure each is what it is supposed to be.

 

[Slimfady]

thanx for the reply lancer,
i think i found one of the problems. It seems that my audigy is conflicting with some other piece of hardware that i have like mlakrid said. I removed the audigy driver and the system is now producing a much better performace.

I'm still testing it, but it seems to be in a good shape. I'm now working only with two sticks @ 400 Mhz, but the other two sticks are 3200 indeed, i did try them on another PC.

 

[American Zombie]

Download CPU-Z then click on the SPD tab and you can check what each memory module is rated at as well as other details about them.