Hello everyone,
First let me provide my system specifications.
Case - Corsair 800D
Memory - Kingston (cant remember part number) 24 GB kit @ 1600
Processor - Intel 940 Core I7
Mobo - Gigabyte X58-ud7 Rev 2.
Power supply - Corsair HX1050
Graphics Card - Zotac Amp2 edition GTX 580 (3 GB ram)
Storage - 2X 3TB WD Caviar Green (one for iTunes media and one for backup)
1X 2TB WD Caviar Black (Personal pictures and downloaded programs for review)
1X 1TB WD CAviar Black (Gaming storage location)
Boot Drive - 2X 120 GB Kingston V100 (first edition at 180 mb/sec) in Raid 0
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100
Ok so now the question.
I bought my I7 (sealed box) off of craigs list and it has been giving me fits. It is almost 3 years old now and the memory controller in it I believe is bad. It will not run any memory at the performance profiles available. The Corsair memory I had (1600 mhz) would only run at 1066 and same with the Kingston memory. Regardless if I ran one stick or 3 or all 6 sticks of memory the issue remained. As such I used Gigabytes EZ Tune software and a bit more tweaking to get my processor to 3.9 GHZ and then the memory would run at 1600 mhz without issue. This lasted just over a year. Last night I got a C1 error on the mini diagnostic panel on the motherboard. Dropping down to 16GB of memory fixed and again reaffirms my suspicion of a bad processor.
It is getting more and more difficult to find Core I7 processors (yes newegg and tiger and microcenter have them but quantities and selection are limited now).
I have about $500 to spend and am confused on processors now. I would like a motherboard which has thunderbolt on it. Gigabyte should have one soon and Asus and MSI I believe have one now. This limits me to an 1155 socket. Keeping my budget in mind, and I want to re-use as many of my parts as possible, especially would be nice to keep the RAM as I have 6 GB of corsair and now 24 GB of Kingston lying around.
I have had great success with Gigabyte boards and both MSI and Asus have left bad tastes in my mouth in the past.
I am not afraid of overclocking and actually would like to push 4GHZ
Thank you all for helping out in advance.
First let me provide my system specifications.
Case - Corsair 800D
Memory - Kingston (cant remember part number) 24 GB kit @ 1600
Processor - Intel 940 Core I7
Mobo - Gigabyte X58-ud7 Rev 2.
Power supply - Corsair HX1050
Graphics Card - Zotac Amp2 edition GTX 580 (3 GB ram)
Storage - 2X 3TB WD Caviar Green (one for iTunes media and one for backup)
1X 2TB WD Caviar Black (Personal pictures and downloaded programs for review)
1X 1TB WD CAviar Black (Gaming storage location)
Boot Drive - 2X 120 GB Kingston V100 (first edition at 180 mb/sec) in Raid 0
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100
Ok so now the question.
I bought my I7 (sealed box) off of craigs list and it has been giving me fits. It is almost 3 years old now and the memory controller in it I believe is bad. It will not run any memory at the performance profiles available. The Corsair memory I had (1600 mhz) would only run at 1066 and same with the Kingston memory. Regardless if I ran one stick or 3 or all 6 sticks of memory the issue remained. As such I used Gigabytes EZ Tune software and a bit more tweaking to get my processor to 3.9 GHZ and then the memory would run at 1600 mhz without issue. This lasted just over a year. Last night I got a C1 error on the mini diagnostic panel on the motherboard. Dropping down to 16GB of memory fixed and again reaffirms my suspicion of a bad processor.
It is getting more and more difficult to find Core I7 processors (yes newegg and tiger and microcenter have them but quantities and selection are limited now).
I have about $500 to spend and am confused on processors now. I would like a motherboard which has thunderbolt on it. Gigabyte should have one soon and Asus and MSI I believe have one now. This limits me to an 1155 socket. Keeping my budget in mind, and I want to re-use as many of my parts as possible, especially would be nice to keep the RAM as I have 6 GB of corsair and now 24 GB of Kingston lying around.
I have had great success with Gigabyte boards and both MSI and Asus have left bad tastes in my mouth in the past.
I am not afraid of overclocking and actually would like to push 4GHZ
Thank you all for helping out in advance.
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