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09-29-2007, 11:23 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NW. w00t. Posts: 1,164
|  Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
So thanks to UPS being LAME and Fry's sweet return policy, I decided to pick up some ballistix there tonight. They were about $40 more there, which is why I ordered them from Newegg.
I decided I want to find out if theirs a point to running 4gigs over 2gigs under Windows Vista 32-bit.
Obviously a 32-bit OS can only address up to around 3.5-3.8gigs, so I won't be able to run the full 4gigs. I want to run 4 or so synthetic benchmarks, time windows boot up, and so some video game benchmarking on my own.
Do any of you think this would be interesting? Or do you think the outcome would be a "no ****" outcome?
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09-29-2007, 11:31 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
congrats on your ram
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09-29-2007, 11:50 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NW. w00t. Posts: 1,164
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
Thanks man. I'm pretty stoked on them. I've heard nothing but good things.
I only wish I would of taken your guys advice months back and gotten these in the first place.
The OCZ i have are great, don't get me wrong. I'd reccomend them to anyone. They just can't overclock as high as I want to go.
After I flashed my BIOS back to the older version, i was able to get the memory to run pretty high. Just not as high as i want to go
I'm running memtest on the magicstix right now, at stock timings, just to make sure I didn't get a bad pair.
I'll start overclocking them tonight as soon as its done!
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09-29-2007, 11:52 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
It's up to YOU to make these truly "magicstix", make us proud 
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09-30-2007, 03:31 AM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NW. w00t. Posts: 1,164
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
Haha, I will.
So I got multiple BSODS today and couldn't boot into windows, even after switching back to my old RAM.
But I can boot into into Ubuntu just fine with my cpu OC'ED. But I don't know of any CPU-Z like programs for Linux.
So I'm just going to have to re-install windows AGAIN for stress tests, etc.
So, expect me to post my OC and what I've done by tomorrow afternoon!
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09-30-2007, 09:18 AM
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Master Techie Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ra'anana, Israel Posts: 2,350
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
Good luck ! and gratz on the RAM
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09-30-2007, 01:48 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,036
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
Grrr, i was gonna get the 4GB G.Skill set Newegg.com - G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
But i just lost $120.00 at the casino last night.  , had fun though. hehe.
Was there for over 5 hours winning and loosing then ended up loosing the whole thing.
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09-30-2007, 02:33 PM
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Lord Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 6,356
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those 2x2gb kits are crap. The only decent ones are mushkin at the moment
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09-30-2007, 03:22 PM
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Courtesy of Mak. Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Chichester, England Posts: 4,005
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
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09-30-2007, 07:21 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NW. w00t. Posts: 1,164
| Re: Got my Ballistix!! w00t w00t!
So my ASUS mobo took a poop on my head last night.
I just picked up a Gigabyte P35 mobo. I'm installing windows right now on my rig (im on my laptop right now).
I cant wait to OC this thing now.
EDIT: 600th post!!!!
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