Posts by Carl Bennett8

William Richardson12 said:Did you try resetting the CMOS...

I didn't touch anything... even Task Manager showed about 6GB free, but it was still acting up

George Sanders37 said:Glad you got it sorted, though that was a weird one. I wonder—did the reinstall happen to pull down newer drivers than what you had before? Maybe a new chipset (INF) driver dropped, or perhaps those older drivers just had some bugs when handling larger amounts of Microsoft memory.

If you figure out exactly what caused it, please let us know. 😁

Yeah, it was incredibly strange. Even with 8GB of Microsoft memory, the PC acted like it didn't have any at all.
A simple reinstall of the graphics drivers fixed everything...
It's interesting because this started right when I tried to add another stick. It gave me a few beeps, and after I cleaned them off, Windows booted up fine—but then those issues started...

After reinstalling Windows
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George Sanders37 said:Send over a screenshot of your Task Manager—based on how you're describing it, I guess that app might actually have a memory leak.

Here are the screenshots
first one
second one

It’s honestly pretty strange to me...

darkowl72 said:Nah. But there's a chance you swapped in slower RAM, which forced your original stick to throttle down just to stay compatible with the new one...

It even dropped down to 9 FPS, and for a few seconds, my PC had almost zero available RAM left...
Is there any way I can clear it out?

So, I was cleaning out my Microsoft memory and decided to pop in my brother's card to see how things run with 8GB...
I launched Call of Duty 2, but the FPS dropped from a locked 250 down to just over 150.
If anyone knows what might be causing this, I'd really appreciate the help; I used to hit a solid 250 with just 4GB...

The PC is spotless...




Is it possible for the system to recognize the memory but fail to actually utilize it—like, it shows 8GB but doesn't perform like it should?

http://www.reddit.com/r/windows7

Installing Windows 7

I suspect the graphics card is the culprit here, since it used to make those little beep-beep sounds, but now everything is just sitting at 5🙂

Haha, everything's running smoothly except for the firewall... if I can just get that fixed...

I gave it a good couple of solid whacks, and then it just restarts and kicks back to life...

I was just vacuuming out my keyboard and giving the GPU and CPU a bit of air when suddenly... it restarts itself.

The decision is made. I managed to snag a Roccat Ryos MK for $167 new, so thanks to Carl Bennett8 for clearing things up for me... 🙂

Which one of these is the best pick...
Razer BlackWidow
Logitech g510
Steelseries v6g2
I'm looking for a mechanical board, and honestly, I don't really care about the colors (just that LED lighting under the keys
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I'm looking for something for gaming, ideally with backlit keys... I don't know much about this stuff, but I'm sure anything works, so if someone experienced could suggest a few keyboards under $167 for me to check out...
Also, what do you think of Razer or Lyosa? Or maybe something from Roccat? I really don't have any experience, and my current one is just a basic model...