Not impressed with c2d..whats wrong

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ok just bought a new rig, e4300 @ 2.4ghz 1 gig ocuk ram 1950pro 512mb

Although im fairly impressed with it games wise, general tasks in windows such as opening internet windows when something is installing or music is playing etc its always hanging etc and it doesnt seem much of an improvement over my athlon xp 2600 :S I also had several crashes in bf2 I think i had to press the restart button about 15 times on day 1 when i put it all together. Windows is fully up to date. Is there something i might have obviously forgotten to do?
 
TBH, i don't think 512MB RAM is sufficient nowadays.
I would recommend 1GB RAM at least.

Jay

EDIT - Whooops, i read 512MB as being the RAM, but that was the gfx card :o. Sorry
 
elite, im quite happy mostly with bf2 but ill give that a go to see if it gives me a boost anyway, already did it for steam.

cpuz says im running at 2504mhz

I tried looking for this speedstep thing in bios but cant find it. Its an intel thing right? Only ever had amd

thanks for help
 
If CPUZ says your running at ~2.5GHz then Speedstep is most likely off. Really not sure what is going on, kinda worrying me about getting the E4300. It could be the ram not going up to speed. Check what speed your ram is at in CPUZ.
 
Ram is running at 400mhz so 800 effective and is in "async" at 2T command rate

wierd thing is i cant select the second core on the drop down list now

I think maybe Ill run a stabilty test though surely if it was instable it would restart and not be slow? Ive got nothing but windows bf2 and steam installed and the pc really takes longer to boot than my athlon xp, I mean wtf

Disk wise im using a brand new samsung 80gig sata drive
 
could it be because there just isnt that much of a difference when it comes down to it? its faster yes but its not gonna suddenly rock your world opening a window 1/2 a second faster after paying a whack of cash
 
Are you running XP or Vista? There is a known problem with this board and Vista to do with the graphics aperture.

Do you have all the neccessary plugs connected to the board?

Have you set the correct Vdimm voltage?

Do you have the newest bios for that board as Abit (yet again) shipped it with a flaky bios. Reading around a few forums there has been quite a few of these boards dying. One guy on the Abit.care forum (google it as i can't link to it due to forum rules) has had similar problems to you and is on his third dead board.
 
fresh install of windows xp yes. all connections are connected to board.
When i say hanging i mean a couple of second which my athlon xp never did so something is obviously wrong.

Just looking into bios version now.

Pasty what do you mean about the vdimm voltage?

Dont know if this helps, if anyone notices anything drastically wrong in cpuz

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v503/badger_grr/untitled.jpg

dunno why its come out so crap on photobucket, the jpeg file on my pc is full sized and clear :S
 
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It's your ram voltage. A lot of motherboards set it at 1.8-1.85v but a lot of ddr2 needs 2-2.2v. If it's too low it can cause system instability. Does your ram have the voltage on it's sticker? If not, input your ram part number into google and see if it comes up with a link to your ram's data sheet. You should then be able to find out the required voltage.
 
RAM part number is M2Y51264TU88B0B-25C

However i cant find anything with voltage, My board has it at 1.8, shall i put it to 2.0v? that should be safe enough to test right?
 
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