Ethereal_Dragon
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OK, new plan of action for now....
I am going to at some point tomorrow (hopefully) get MemTest86 running, and run that for at least 24 hours.
If that works, I am TEARING this computer apart, and rebuilding it piece by piece. The ONLY thing I can think of that changed recently is that I moved from the Antec 900 to an Antec P280 case. I DID take everything apart and clean it and re-apply thermal paste, but perhaps I goofed. Also, I took apart my 4870 and cleaned it too. If I fudged it up, I am going to be LIVID. I managed to fudge up an ATI 9800 All-In-Wonder a few years back when it was a really nice card.
Maybe I will borrow parts from my wifes desktop, since it hasn't been powered on in over 6 months. Same socket, just running a C2D (E2600 so something I think?) different memory, and an 1950 (or 1900) XT.
It is killing me to know that my laptop out-performs my desktop because it can run youtube videos and SC2 with no issue....
I am going to at some point tomorrow (hopefully) get MemTest86 running, and run that for at least 24 hours.
If that works, I am TEARING this computer apart, and rebuilding it piece by piece. The ONLY thing I can think of that changed recently is that I moved from the Antec 900 to an Antec P280 case. I DID take everything apart and clean it and re-apply thermal paste, but perhaps I goofed. Also, I took apart my 4870 and cleaned it too. If I fudged it up, I am going to be LIVID. I managed to fudge up an ATI 9800 All-In-Wonder a few years back when it was a really nice card.
Maybe I will borrow parts from my wifes desktop, since it hasn't been powered on in over 6 months. Same socket, just running a C2D (E2600 so something I think?) different memory, and an 1950 (or 1900) XT.
It is killing me to know that my laptop out-performs my desktop because it can run youtube videos and SC2 with no issue....