Look at Webber and Hamilton go, great racing!

Quote from amp88 :

I disagree. He's losing 20-25 secs per lap now and it only costs about 30-35 for a stop. Plus his wets will be getting destroyed by running on the bone dry track.

It's raining now

Had it rained now, Kimi would have picked the perfect time. But he's now down the field to do anything damaging.

Kimi pits for wets!!

Possible rain in 10 mins!

Anyone notice the stats during the formation lap?

On the Drivers and Constuctors stats, McLaren or Hamilton weren't mentioned!

Wooo wet race!!!

I can imagine a cheeky grin from Vettel, when the Stewards would tell him off, but with a sly grin from their end, had Vettel managed to carry on.

Well done to the Brawn Team!

Beumi gets his first points on his debut

Lol Vettel is still going!

Chances are that he may not get the points.

Awww Vettel and Kubica gone!!!

Barrichello: YOINK!

Woah, unfortunate for Piquet!

What a start by Button!!

I unfortunately ran into a dead pixel iissue on my 22" TV while playing MGS4 *which also can act as a monitor if I wanted to use it for my PC.

I hear that there is a way to fix the dead pixel, and get it back working again. If there is, what do I need to do to fix it?

Cheers.

For anyone that is looking for a graphics card, I am currently selling one.

nVidia 7600GT 256MB DDR3 for at least 20 - 30 quid, price is negotiable.

Feel free to answer any questions related to the card, and I'll do my best in answering them.

Quote from garph :

If 4GB of RAM isn't working just changing to a 64bit OS with the same hardware wont make it work as the problem is more likey to be hardware related. Could be as simple as tweaking things in the BIOS or it might not.

I've used 4GB of RAM with XP (32bit) and so have loads of others.

I had a look at my BIOS, to see if i could maybe up the voltage by a pinch, to see if that would support the 4gb altogether. But the BIOS info wasn't really specfic on which voltage supports which, so I didn't bother changing anything incase it the was wrong one.

How do you up the voltage in the BIOS for RAM? Which one is it?

At the time being, I'm just going to check if the RAM isn't faulty at all (havent the time to do it sooner due to college work) by sticking in only 1 stick and boot it up, one by one.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

Yes there is a way around it: install a 64-bit operating system, it's the only real solution.

I ran into the same problem as you. I had 2GB of RAM installed in my PC, and it worked fine. When I added another 2GB I started getting blue screens in games, completely random ones too, each time I got one it was different than the previous ones. So what I did was I took out 1GB and my system now works great with 3GB, no more blue screens. Also, it still says it's in dual-channel mode, so that's good enough for me!

Thanks, that worked, turned out the one of the RAM is faulty, but I'm going to have a thorough check tonight after work, to see which one is faulty just to double check, and send it back to Overclockers.

Thanks Cobra

Hi guys, my order of RAM arrived at the post today, and ran into an odd issue.

Here are the symptons.

After putting the extra RAM in, when I boot the PC up, it doesn't load up at all. I thought I fooked the M/B, but after taking the new ram back out, PC has been working as normal.

Could the RAM be faulty?

This is the exact same RAM that I bought last year when I was building up a new computer for myself.

EDIT: RAM isn't faulty, but ran into an issue or two when having 4gb installed

After playing a game, (COD 5) I would get a blue screen, with a reason "dumping phyisical data" I'll provide a screenshot the next time it appears.

Is there a way around it? I took the ram out, so back to 2GB for now.

Last edited by BigDave2967, Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:29.

Quote from tonyfreak215 :

The higher and newer cards actually run better with the higher resolutions. At lower resolutions games become more CPU limited.

Have you looked into doing a slight overclock?

In the CPU or Graphics card?

I haven't actually done an overclock on the CPU before, but I'm aware that you can adjust the settings in the BIOs, how is that done? But I don't really intend to do it at the time, not been having any problems at all.

Last edited by BigDave2967, Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:29.

Just decided to do a little experiment.

I decided to go back to the default graphic settings (1024 x 768 resolution was the default settings in the game) just to see if there was any improvement, and changed the nvidia settings to play in High Performance.



Suprisingly, I got this. 35fps, you can clearly see the ragged edges, because I changed to high performance, and the resolution being 1024 x 768

Changed it back to High Quality, and 1680 x 1050, and voila, same fps but more sharper detail, as you'll see below.



May as well be an actual issue from COD 5 itself, than the own PC.

Quote from Scrabby :

You know there are RAM sticks with more capacity then 1gig..

Yeah I'm aware of that, was explaining the situation .

Quote from garph :

RAM won’t make any difference to your FPS.



I think you're jumping a few steps and going too fast, it could be something very simple which you'll miss by needlessly upgrading or formatting....oopps.



Probably just that COD5 is more demanding, you might have to just drop the graphics settings do get some FPS back or like other have said it could be a known issue.

EDIT: I had a bit of messing about with the graphics details on COD 5 and with nividia settings, from high performance - high quality settings, it hasn't made any changes in FPS performance at all, even resolution change, may turn out to be an known issue after all.



I don't think you need to upgrade just to max out games again, if you do that you'll be splashing out loads of cash all the time. You'd also need to check if you motherboard can accept a TRI or QUAD core as they are AM2+.

Good call, I'll have a look into that over the next few days.

Just found it frustrating that I bought these last year, runs COD 4 like dadges smooth arse, and then see it get ragged quite a bit

Last edited by BigDave2967, Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:35.

Quote from dadge :

cod5 should run ok on your system. i am running a socket 939 amd (duel core) 4800+ and 2gb of ddr1 ram and a 8800gt card. cod5 runs mint for me. updated your drivers lately?

Yeah, I had to reformat my PC the other day, but installed the latest nvidia driver, and installed the latest motherboard drivers, haven't installed the latest dual core driver though, had a bit of trouble searching for that.

I tried COD 4 on multiplayer alone, I got 45-55 fps on an empty server :S. And 30 fps on COD 2 when I encounter smoke.

I'm sure that I need a few drivers that I missed out to correct the issues.

Quote from Bose321 :

if you want 4GB or more Ram, you need 64bit windows.

Should have that, plus with the new ram thats coming in a few days time, it will be 4gb, can't get anymore, as there are only 4 slots to put them in.

Quote from amp88 :

COD5 does use multiple cores (I've attached a screenshot, look at the CPU Usage displayed in SpeedFan). As for the poor performance it could be a problem with COD5 (a new patch could fix it) or it could be a problem with graphics drivers (I know, for example, that ATi cards had a hotfix for performance). The specs you've posted should be pretty decent to run the game at a reasonably steady framerate.

Fancy a trade of my specs for yours? :P

I just ordered another 2gb of RAM for my PC (the same ones I bought last year, so shouldn't really be any issue at all) So that will make things a bit easier, didn't mind anyway, was only 30 quid.

Any nvidia drivers that are recommended that would keep COD 5 steady until new drivers and a new COD 5 patch may repair any issues the game currently has?

Last edited by BigDave2967, Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:24.

64bit OS?

Hi there, I recently got Call of Duty World at War for the PC last week, and was expecting my PC to run it without any problems (see specs below)

AMD Athlon 5600+ Dual Core (2.8 Ghz)
nVidia Gainward 8800GT 512MB GDDR3
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4
Artic 600W PSU
Asus M2N-Sli Deluxe PCI - E motherboard (AM2 socket)

This can run COD 4 on max settings without any problems at all, can set it to max of 70fps via console and happily play away.

But when I play COD 5 WoW, performance wise has dropped which was expected since its a new game but its dropped big time.

Minimum I can get 27fps and Max I can get 70 fps, and its varys on the action. Rumour has that COD 5 is affecting its performance, causing the systems to not reach its full capability than it did in COD 4.
Is an upgrade needed? I don't mind the upgrades at all, because I anticipated myself to upgrade sometime next month or January, but which upgrade is neccessary for COD 5?

- Quad Core?
- Another Graphics Card? (make it Sli)
- Another 2gb of RAM?

It's a bit of a bother because the lack of FPS does bug me when I try to snipe in long distances.

Just to note, none of the systems are overclocked at all.