- Feb 19, 2014
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Ok so I'm going to school to to get certified to be an IT systems engineer and right now I want to learn as much as I can on building a budget gaming rig.
Right now I have all my parts. It's built and I usually only play DayZ Standalone on my A6 laptop.
I've been reading that top of the line RAM increases performance of AMD's APU's. So here are my specs and I will get to my problem afterwards.
Like-new Antec Mini P180 Case I got for $25 (amazing deal and perfect timing) at a garage sale with an intake fan I installed in the top front bay.
ASUS F2A55-M FM2 Socket motherboard. (Supports up to 2400 MHz RAM.)
AMD A10 6800k Richland APU Black Edition (using stock heatsync and fan it came with, due to being broke)
G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 SDRAM (PC3 17000)
Seagate 1TB 7200 rpm HDD
Windows 8.1 Pro (I got it free because I work at geek squad and took a test to get it for free. Might as well use it)
So my main problem is... The 2133 MHz ram I purchased defaults at 1600 MHz and gives you the option in the advanced section to change it to 2133 MHz. But when I did that, I booted to windows and all I got were lines on the screen. The new school BIOS on the MB is a little confusing to me as I have never really dipped in to overclocking or anything of that nature.
Why won't the RAM default to 2133 like it's supposed to? The board and APU obviously support it.
Also, while playing DayZ on this new rig... The APU gets up to 61 degrees Celsius while running around in the game and if I stop moving it starts cooling down to about 52 degrees. Is all my problem just the stock cooler?
I have an intake fan in the front, outtake fan in the back and very large outtake fan at the top.
Any answers would be appreciated.
Right now I have all my parts. It's built and I usually only play DayZ Standalone on my A6 laptop.
I've been reading that top of the line RAM increases performance of AMD's APU's. So here are my specs and I will get to my problem afterwards.
Like-new Antec Mini P180 Case I got for $25 (amazing deal and perfect timing) at a garage sale with an intake fan I installed in the top front bay.
ASUS F2A55-M FM2 Socket motherboard. (Supports up to 2400 MHz RAM.)
AMD A10 6800k Richland APU Black Edition (using stock heatsync and fan it came with, due to being broke)
G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 SDRAM (PC3 17000)
Seagate 1TB 7200 rpm HDD
Windows 8.1 Pro (I got it free because I work at geek squad and took a test to get it for free. Might as well use it)
So my main problem is... The 2133 MHz ram I purchased defaults at 1600 MHz and gives you the option in the advanced section to change it to 2133 MHz. But when I did that, I booted to windows and all I got were lines on the screen. The new school BIOS on the MB is a little confusing to me as I have never really dipped in to overclocking or anything of that nature.
Why won't the RAM default to 2133 like it's supposed to? The board and APU obviously support it.
Also, while playing DayZ on this new rig... The APU gets up to 61 degrees Celsius while running around in the game and if I stop moving it starts cooling down to about 52 degrees. Is all my problem just the stock cooler?
I have an intake fan in the front, outtake fan in the back and very large outtake fan at the top.
Any answers would be appreciated.
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