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[NeMeSiS]

I dont know if you can fix it, but if you have multiple DIMMs you can take the faulty one out and work with less RAM for a while.

[Placebo]

Shouldn't pretty much all RAM be coming with life warranties these days? If it's DDR3 it can't be that old?

[PuFu]

there is NO way to fix it, no. Faulty ram needs to be replaced.

ram nowadays have pretty much life time warranty, or so are the ones i got (just checked, around 99 months )
check your warranty, might be in a bit of a luck.

[Matthewkunx]

Hey guys, just wanna see what you think about the build I am currently working on for fixing up my old PC as well as a new PC that I am building for general gaming since I am not always looking to set everything on ultra.

Here are the specs for both PC's;

My old/build-from-scrap Gaming computer (Or as I would call, my "Minmatar Computer" If you get the reference)

Asus A8N SLI Deluxe NVIDIA Socket 939 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 4400+ @ 2.21GHz (without overclocking)
4x PNY 512MB PC3200 = 2GB RAM
2x WD5000AADS 500GB HDD (Had some laying around)
DVD RW
Swapping out my old Radeon 256MB card with a Sapphire 100322L Radeon HD 6450 Video Card - 1GB, GDDR3, PCI-Express 2.0
Running Win 7 Ultimate

This is my general gaming rig;
(Including prices of each part)
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2P AMD 760 Motherboard (54.99)
AMD HDT45TWFGRBOX Phenom II X6 1045T Processor (139.99)
Crucial BLS2G3D1609DS1S00 Ballistix 2GB DDR3 (probably would get a second one and at 18 bucks its nice)
Seagate ST1000DM003 Barracuda 1TB HDD (90.00)
DVD RW (another thing I got sitting around
XFX HD-667X-ZHF3 Radeon HD 6670 1GB (65.00)
Got an ATX tower sitting around and a Diablotek PSDA600 DA Series 600W ATX (Got this PSU for 34.99)

So I am looking at eh...around $421+ for this build plus 30 bucks for the graphics card for my old PC. So, thoughts?

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I could also use some advice...
I am currently using a laptop which was not bought for gaming. i have now changed my mind and want to get into PC gaming rather than console. I used the sytemrequirementslab tosee if my laptop was good enough to handle games like arma 2, bf3 etc. Everything came back a pass other than my video card which failed.

Is there any way of upgrading this (external video card etc.)??
Here is my laptops spec:
Operating sytem: windows 7 homw premium 64-bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Display: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family


thanks
Aron

Some new high performance laptop and portable computer manufacturers are coming out with models that enable users to upgrade the video card or video accelerator it came shipped with. Unless your one of the lucky few who have one of these laptops or portable computer you will not be able to upgrade your video card. Try contacting your manufacture or google it bro.

[Epillus]

hello everyone, this is my first time posting in this community and hopefully it's in the right place :P. I have a couple of links to some builds I've been working on.. I'm going to be building some very lightweight gaming rigs, and would like some advice. Some games I plan on downloading/playing are ARMA II, and Minecraft(not worried about) and prohbaly some lightweight games because I do play alot of games on xbox like BF3 and saints row. As of right now i'm looking at a budget of $600, I don't need a monitor and most likely not a mouse or a keyboard because i have some. Also it does not have to be windows, I am fairly comfortable using a linux distro.

BUILD 1
BUILD 2
BUILD 3

[Bee8190]

[/COLOR]Unfortunately none of those builds meets the minimum requirements. I would recommend at least one of those high clocked i3 or obviously better yet i5.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...t=arma+minimum

[-Coulum-]

Okay total computer noob here. Starting to narrow down parts I want for a new computer and one I am having trouble with is the mother board. How important is this to gaming (arma in particular)?. Should I be looking to get a really good one, or should I simply be looking to get something that "gets the job done"? Thanks in advance for any help.

[irishrocky]

hey folks, i need a new pc as i've donated alot of parts to friends and family in need so what would people reccomend ??

ive no bias between brands but would ideally play Arma II & such at 40 fps on good settings & A3 on reasonable, im not fussy about running max AA and the likes just stable decent fps/view distance etc makes me happy as larry....

pc would be running SSD only and preferably the gpu would be a single unit ( i.e 2gb 78xx+ or nividia equiv... )

would it be doable for say, sub 600 euro with a case already + mouse keyboard & monitor ?

[Placebo]

Everyone gets to ask one dumb question a day right? Here's mine!

So I buy a new SSD http://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/vplus/#svp200s3 it says it has the following specs:

Sequential reads: SATA Rev. 3.0 - 535MB/s
Sequential writes2:SATA Rev. 3.0 -120GB – 480MB/s
Sustained Random 4k Read/Write2: 120GB – 20,000/44,000 IOPS
Max Random 4k Read/Write2: 120GB – 85,000/55,000 IOPS

I run AS SSD Benchmark and get this:



My motherboard is an ASUS M5A97 motherboard which is Sata3 and I'm using Sata3 rated Sata cables to connect it to the motherboard


I think this was the result from when I was using the generic MS Sata driver on my old Sata2 motherboard:



So despite upgrading to a newer supposedly much faster motherboard the SSD speeds have actually pretty much gone down, and either way the speeds I'm getting are nothing like the supposed 535MB/s reads and 480MB/s writes advertised? Am I missing something obvious here and/or being dumb or is something not configured/working right in my system?

[TonyGrunt]

Do a bench with Atto or HDtune then you should see the advertised speeds.
And I believe AMD sata controllers are slower than the Intel ones, so expect to lose a bit from that.