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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: yurinova on May 22, 2013, 01:13:57 am
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I have been recently within the last few weeks been experiencing slow downs, I have narrowed it down to something with the memory but from reading around there are so many possible things this could be caused by, basically I have 8 gigs 2 4gig sticks of sniper g skill 1866, windows resource monitor shows not only do I have an obscene amount reserved for hardware use 2050mb, but out of my 8 gigs it says I only have 6144 mb installed on the system, cpuz and other tools do see that I have 8 though but they used to run in dual channel and now I cannot get them back into it either. I also reset all settings to stock so nothing is overclocked at the moment, any ideas?
Ga-990fxa ud3 Mb
2x4gig Gskill 1866
xfx 7970 ghz
amd fx8320
Xclio stable power 80 gold plus 750watt
Corsair h100i cooler
ocz vertex 3 ssd
500gb seagate barracuda
1tb seagate barracuda
1.5tb wd external
azza salano 1000 case
Windows 7 home premium
Also I have done the obvious I get same results no matter what slots I use, I tried all the combinations to get them in dual channel mode none of them work.
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is this a v3 board? overclocked?
my hardware reserved is 24MB
check the event viewer (error log) for critical errors - this may hint the problem?
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Greetings yurinova,
To understand your situation I need some clarification. cpu-z shows the mem speed at half the actual because it's giving you information on a per stick basis. The bios will show you both the memory multiplier and the actual memory speed. For instance, if the bios say it's actually running at 1600 the cup-z wil show 800 per stick. Too, if you're running 32bit os it will only see 4gigs.
Now as to the system slow down. You'll need to be more specific. Apps are slow loading? Screen is slow responding to keyboard or mouse? Computational orperations are slowing down (ie reloading and computing a large spread sheet)? In general, here are the steps I go thru:
1. Check disk and defrag - don't know how that works with an ssd if its the os disk. Which gets me the part b: what are the relevent methods for optimizing an os ssd? Hopefully, someone here will jump in on this one.
2. Check for services being run. The first I normally go after are: shadow copy, indexing and firewall/virus protection. Too, software can add services which run all the time unnecessarily. So ... do graphics or sound devices leave extra services running? And, every sw wants to leave an update daemon running. You can try to disable some services and see if this helps.
3. Lastly check disk and defrag your data disks.
Short of all this ... I'm thinking that the memory is ok but that windoze is being its typical self. <BG>
Be well,
Kim
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Use only 2 sticks of 1866 Mhz memory.
The amount of reserved memory depends on the hardware installed on the mobo.
Also this boards seem to support only 4Gigs sticks of RAM otherwise you will have problems.Maybe a BIOS limitation.
Do not mix different manufacturers of RAM.
SLOW downs can be generated by CPU throttling or GPU throttling also.
Use some overclocking tool and use fixed CPU and GPU clocks ,see if this fixes the slowdowns.
Also disable APM in BIOS for CPU.