OK,
Back in May, I purchased a newer Pentium 4 processor with Hyperthreading that is a bit faster than my previous one. Biggest thing was to get the improvement in front side bus speed from 533 MHz to 800 MHz and take advantage of my faster RAM (DDR400) which is currently running at 333.
Well, I did get a noticeable performance boost in speed and framerates while playing RO (10-20 fps) and running other games and programs.....
BUT
I would occasionally get random crashes, either program crashes or system crashes. This would happen when the computer was idle, or under heavy task and was completely random. Some days it would not happen at all, and others 5 or 6 times a day. This absolutely is NOT a problem with RO! I ran my system with just Windows XP only installed on the hard drive after a hard drive reformat and it still happened.
- I tried everything from reformatting my hard drive, loaded all new and updated drivers (including chipset), turned HT on and off, made sure programs were up to date etc, switched cards in their slots, fixes from Microsoft, etc, and still no luck.
After more than a month of troubleshooting, I put back in my old processor. I have absolutely no problem with system or program crashes with my old processor and current hardware.
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I want to try replacing the processor again, because the one thing I did not try was to relax the timings on my memory, which are aggressively set by default (for that particular memory). What I want to know or get ideas about, is there a chance that this will work? Does anyone have any thoughts on this or know about this? Will I just be wasting my time? It's sorta a pain to remove the cpu cooler and if it doesn't work, I will be doing it twice (to replace the new with the old again...)
Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
Back in May, I purchased a newer Pentium 4 processor with Hyperthreading that is a bit faster than my previous one. Biggest thing was to get the improvement in front side bus speed from 533 MHz to 800 MHz and take advantage of my faster RAM (DDR400) which is currently running at 333.
Well, I did get a noticeable performance boost in speed and framerates while playing RO (10-20 fps) and running other games and programs.....
BUT
I would occasionally get random crashes, either program crashes or system crashes. This would happen when the computer was idle, or under heavy task and was completely random. Some days it would not happen at all, and others 5 or 6 times a day. This absolutely is NOT a problem with RO! I ran my system with just Windows XP only installed on the hard drive after a hard drive reformat and it still happened.
- I tried everything from reformatting my hard drive, loaded all new and updated drivers (including chipset), turned HT on and off, made sure programs were up to date etc, switched cards in their slots, fixes from Microsoft, etc, and still no luck.
After more than a month of troubleshooting, I put back in my old processor. I have absolutely no problem with system or program crashes with my old processor and current hardware.
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I want to try replacing the processor again, because the one thing I did not try was to relax the timings on my memory, which are aggressively set by default (for that particular memory). What I want to know or get ideas about, is there a chance that this will work? Does anyone have any thoughts on this or know about this? Will I just be wasting my time? It's sorta a pain to remove the cpu cooler and if it doesn't work, I will be doing it twice (to replace the new with the old again...)
Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.