Brand new build

Mat Smith · 4 Dec 2010 at 20:40

Yo, recently bought a brand new whole computer, built it all and it seems okay, but says i have 3.25gb of ram instead of the 8gb of ram i should have and seems slower than my old set up when viewing videos in full screen etc, my spec:

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail 1 £114.99
MSI 870A-G54 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard 1 £66.37
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply 1 £59.57
Patriot Viper 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS34G1600LLK) 2 £107.98
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black

I have no idea whats up or what i could do, obviously need to take it apart and re-do something, if theres any programs i should download to maybe find out the problem, let me know

stulid · 4 Dec 2010 at 20:40

32bit operating system I presume?

Mat Smith · 4 Dec 2010 at 20:44

stulid said:
32bit operating system I presume?

yeah xp

stulid · 4 Dec 2010 at 20:44

Mat Smith said:
yeah xp

you need a 64bit version to be able to access the full amount.

Mat Smith · 4 Dec 2010 at 20:46

stulid said:
you need a 64bit version to be able to access the full amount.

dont understand why its slower than when i had it before though? haha before i had 2gb of ram and dualcore, so do i need to buy windows 7?

stulid · 4 Dec 2010 at 20:50

Mat Smith said:
dont understand why its slower than when i had it before though? haha before i had 2gb of ram and dualcore, so do i need to buy windows 7?

pretty much.

But seriously, you have installed all the drivers for the motherboard(including the ATI ones for the onboard GPU)??

Liampope · 4 Dec 2010 at 20:51

Well you reeeeeally dont want XP 64bit or Vista to be honest, so yeah - Win7 64bit would be a good idea

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I take it you're using onboard video? What was the old setup using? Also, are all the mobo/chipset/onboard video drivers correctly installed?

Mat Smith · 4 Dec 2010 at 21:09

Yeah i think i have everything installed, from the cd i got i installed everything, im about to install my gfx card drivers, you think it could be that?

stulid · 4 Dec 2010 at 21:13

Mat Smith said:
Yeah i think i have everything installed, from the cd i got i installed everything, im about to install my gfx card drivers, you think it could be that?

the microsoft default drivers will be very basic so yes could very well be the problem.

Mat Smith · 5 Dec 2010 at 02:47

I downloaded the newest drivers for my graphics card and its a lot faster now, still not 8gb of ram though, if i install windows 7 it should sort itself out?

Brian8bit · 5 Dec 2010 at 03:20

Windows 7 64 bit.

Mat Smith · 5 Dec 2010 at 06:09

Brian8bit said:
Windows 7 64 bit.

didnt realise there was a 32bit version but yeah, thanks

King Damager · 5 Dec 2010 at 10:48

Yeah install 7 64 bit, 32 bit can't access all the RAM, and 7>vista and XP

kd

xRowan · 5 Dec 2010 at 10:52

with 32 bit OS you can only access about 3.5gb and using a 64bit will allow you to use all of it.

rush_syndrome · 5 Dec 2010 at 11:11

I bought Win XP 64bit because I wanted to use all my RAM. Shame the driver support was non existent or I would be still using it now. Loved XP 32 bit and have to have dual boot to play the games I used to play. Win7 64bit *** now thought, it's waaay ahead

Mat Smith · 5 Dec 2010 at 15:24

rush_syndrome said:
I bought Win XP 64bit because I wanted to use all my RAM. Shame the driver support was non existent or I would be still using it now. Loved XP 32 bit and have to have dual boot to play the games I used to play. Win7 64bit *** now thought, it's waaay ahead

sweet, thanks a lot, gonna get onto it tonight

, ill probs post another thread in a few days with more problems, hopefully not though