Quote Originally Posted by sesdave View Post
What did you dump the Crucial for - Its D9 chips and a great overclocker. You weren't pushing it near what its capable of. At the FSB you were on running 1:1 you could probably have had it on CAS=3. Buying Mushkin 2x2GB isn't going to give you anything over them unless your MB has problems with 4x1GB cos it put more strain on it. I suppose it give you 2 spare slots but 4GB is really all thats needed under Vista - there are hardly any standard apps that utilise upto 4gb let alone any games. By the time we need more we will all be onto DDR3 anyway-lol!
I dumped the Crucial because one of my dimms was bad. My boss built a new system at about the same time. He got the same memory as I did. We did some heavy testing on Friday and found we both had bad dimms.

Since then Ive been running on 2x1GB dimms. We both ended up RMA'n one pair. I am giving him my working set for 60$, getting a refund from newegg for mine. I ordered my mushkin memory direct.

Just seems that the crucial memory is hit or miss of good dimms. My boss RMA'd his 2 times now.

Right away I noticed a 2deg drop in temps with 2 sticks vs 4.

Plus I have ALWAYS used mushkin in the past with great sucesss. Plus this is CAS 4. vs crucial cas5.

All in all its about lowering Temps.

I rewired my Antec 900 last night. Moved the Double Fan Bay to the top so the CPU is getting hammered with 2 120mm fans intake, 1 120mm exhaust, plus the 200mm exhaust.

The other fan is on the hard drives at the bottom... Plus there is one on the side door.

Temps Now2x1gb)
Full Load Prime95: 52 50 50 51
Idle Temps 2min wait after full load: 31 27 27 30

Before4x1gb)
54 51 50 50 full load
31 30 27 27 idle.

It seems with the double fan slot on top temps dont bobble or jump around as much. It sits solid at idle or full load without jumping too much after it warms up or cools down.

I still need to rewire the case again. I am not happy with it. I gotta borrow my buddies dremel tool to cut some holes and re-run wires. It could be better.

I need a nicer power supply that I can run custom sized wires, any suggestions?