change or not to change?

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ok i play the odd game but battlefield 3 is at present my game of choice right now and i know this requires a good spec to play on ultra settings.

i bought the following back in december 2009 (how time flies!) from ocuk mainly -
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156)
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-16000CL9D-4GBRH) x2 8 gigs total
Alpenföhn Brocken CPU Cooler (Socket 775/1156/1366/754/939/940/AM2/AM2+)
corsair psu

then ive added about a year ago -
ocz vertex 2 60gb ssd
2tb hdd
bluray drive

Now im in the market soon for a new gpu, the question is should i alter the rest ?
Recently ive suddenly started to get an error blue screen saying A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within a timely manor. now ive run a memtest last night and know i had 5 errors over 7 passes that showed on pass 5 and i also know i need to up my memory voltage as its currently at 1.5 and that ram needs 1.65v how its changed im not aware as i did manually alter this a long time ago. Im not overclocking as tried in the past with very bad results :mad:
Im running windows 7 x64 and have it as my main tv using both mediaportal and xbmc :D
that asside what would peeps do and how many have had this error ?

I have updated the bios to the latest f11 and the board is a revision 01.
Also the game settings are set to high at present but the fps drops to around 34 which feels bad at times, also should i be waiting on any new line of gpus.
 
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I would def change the voltage on the ram and see if this improves things, You would need to go into the BIOS and increase the memory voltage, some boards give you the options of which voltage and some show .1v increase.

Would you have a budget for the new GPU? I personally dont see the point on the changing the rest of the system.
 
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well yeah i dont usually like spending over £280 but wife said if we save i can spend more but me being me i dont like waiting, very impatient i know! also the pcie slot is 2.0.

been looking at gpu prices and wow the top cards now days are so so expensive i remember back in the day when i bought the top card which was a radeon 9700 pro for £270 and back then it was a hell of a card!
 
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pop in a cheap second 5850 then do a full overhaul next year after ivybridge is released, by then you should have all the new amd/ati and nvidia cards out as well(other than maybe the dual gpu).
 
pop in a cheap second 5850 then do a full overhaul next year after ivybridge is released, by then you should have all the new amd/ati and nvidia cards out as well(other than maybe the dual gpu).

how much more performance would this option give as its not something ive ever done ? and does it have to be the same make etc
 
I found going from a single 5850 to crossfire was quite a big boost in performance and is certainly capable of playing BF3 on ultra (only using post effect AA instead of defered) at 1080p.
They dont have to be the same make, I am running an XFX card with a reference saphire card and have no problems. Just pop the card in, connect the power and crossfire bridge and enable in CCC.
 
The problem with crossfire is that your second slot is only 4x. Get your ram up to 1.65v and hopefully that will sort out your errors.

What went wrong when you tried to overclock?
 
The overclocks were never stable and half the time would not boot.

P.S. i have today upped the ram voltage to 1.64v as i dont have the option for 1.65v only 1.64v or 1.66v.

Will run memtest again all night tonight and see what happens.
 
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mmm just played battlefield 3 for like 4 hours and no problems, but then i went to restart the pc to run the memtest all night and when the system was either just about to start to boot or just before the last seconds of shutdown (windows had gone) i got the dreaded error as before ? still gonna run memtest all night and see what happens -confused-
 
The problem with crossfire is that your second slot is only 4x. Get your ram up to 1.65v and hopefully that will sort out your errors.

What went wrong when you tried to overclock?

may not be ideal but as a short term measure till ivybridge release and new nvidia/amd cards release it'll give the op a boost.

atomic try it with 2 sticks then 1 stick at a time etc to see if you still get the error.
 
memtest is running still and has done 5 passes when i last checked without errors, so maybe getting the memory working fingers crossed, but that dont explain this secondary processor error?
 
Scrap that i have now had the following -

TST - 7
Pass - 6
Failing address - 001572a9fd8 - 5490.6 mb
Good - ed8959d1
Bad - ed8d59d1
Error Bits - 00040000
Count - 1
Chan - (Blank)

Been running for around 7 and a half hours when error occured.
Will have to start removing memory!
 
ok in cpuz the spd on the modules dont match - tras is 25 and 28 - trc is 33 and 47 - command rate is 2t and 1t - and volts are different 1.65 and 1.60 so now im wondering if these are not matched properly which would be my fault......

update : but the part numbers are the same on all four ?
its the xmp 2000 where the figures differ the rest are the same.
 
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