The PC Builder's Guide

[mikill]

I don't know, there are so many options on my motherboard, I don't know what is and what isn't overclocked.

[spychi]

I don't know, there are so many options on my motherboard, I don't know what is and what isn't overclocked.

did you OC it?

check your memory at what voltage it should run and check if it is set at such rate in BIOS

[mikill]

did you OC it?

check your memory at what voltage it should run and check if it is set at such rate in BIOS

How do I check what RAM I have/what voltage it should be at? Nevermind I just got to wait for my computer to shut down.

[spychi]

yup it worked, I increased my RAM voltage from 1.5V to 1.6 and it booted up without any freeze
I dunno why as it was set like this all the time, yet after the GPU upgrade it's started doing those freezes
wow, I tried to solve the issue for soo long and when you came in and reminded me about it I didi it in a sec

now what remains is the USB drives problem

[mikill]

Ok, mines a Kingston ValueRam: KVR1333D3N9K2/4G. It runs on 1.5 volts but what i have been reading 1.5v is only for Intel based systems, AMD units run 1.7-1.9 volts. More specs: 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM

[Drake Clawfang]

Um, so if I posted what the downloadable scan thing in the original post told me, you guys could tell me how I can upgrade my PC to handle SC2 well?

[spychi]

upgrade right?
yeah sure I can help

[Drake Clawfang]

K, here. I'm actually on my parent's PC since my old one went bust. The decision at hand is if it would be cheaper and easier to just buy an upgrade for this PC and let my parents get a new PC, or buy an new PC for me with the system specs I need already.

Anyway, here are the specs. Considering the first post advises a 5800 series graphics card and ours appears to be a 200 series, I'm gonna take a stab and guess that if I wanna play SC on this machine I should upgrade it.

Operating System
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (Canada)

System Model
Prosys Axess 2006
Enclosure Type: Desktop

Processor a
2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Not hyper-threaded

Main Circuit Board b
Board: RS482-M
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 02/24/2006

Drives
161.95 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
63.99 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

Memory Modules c,d
768 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB

Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 161.95 GB 63.99 GB free

Network Drives
None detected

Controller
ATI IDE Controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (3x)
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] (3x)
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (2x)

Display
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series [Display adapter]
DELL E177FP [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n UH57267L62KS, July 2006)

[spychi]

I would not recommend an upgrade yet if you will insist I can't really help you
at this point the motherboard and ram needs to be throwed away, as you would have issues with mobo-GPU bus speed and it wouldn't do much as your CPU would bottleneck the graphic card wayyy too much

[Drake Clawfang]

I would not recommend an upgrade yet if you will insist I can't really help you

Huh? Why not? And what is "mobo-GPU bus speed," why would it force me to replace my RAM and motherboard?