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ferny12345623   03-01-2009 at 05:01:09 AM

i recently upgrade to a core i7 but now everything seems to be going slow. i run 8gigs of ddr3 memory in tripple channel with a gtx260. does anyone have the same problem? my phenom 2 ran alot faster! it booted windows faster. also my memory only runs at 1066? its suppose to be at 1366? any idea why??? any help would be great. below are my full specs.

core i7 920 cpu (water cooled)
gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R board
corsair 8GB ddr3 (1366 tripple channel)
msi gtx 260
500 GB drive
630 watt PSU

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Kraynor   03-01-2009 at 05:45:45 AM
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How exactly are you running 8gb tri-channel? The only way I can think of would be... uhm... I can't think of one actually...

Are you SURE you've got tri-channel RAM and not dual-channel DDR3? Tri-channel tends to be in multiples of 3gb (since you need 3 sticks for tri-channel, and 1gb is the standard capacity)

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mpain55   03-01-2009 at 05:47:48 AM
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you have to manually clock the ram at 1366, you should be able to do this through your bios. are you sure you're in triple channel? i only know of 1gig and 2gig sticks and i know neither of those in tripple will get you 8 gigs unless your doing 2gig x 3 and 2gig x 1 in which case i believe your triple channel gets deactivated if i'm correct?

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mpain55   03-01-2009 at 05:51:33 AM
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also not many applications are available that make use of the core i7's 8 threads. You will definitely see a performance gain in the future versus your old pc, you made the right choice with i7 but its a big change to introduce 4 more threads to the cpu world, and we'll have to wait for developers to make use of them.

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