Just recently I rebuilt most of my computer.
Specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+
GFX: eVGA 7800 Gt
HDD: 2x Seagate 200 gigs
CD/DVD: Nec 16x DVD +RW
Mobo: Asus A8n SLI
Ram: 1 Gig 400 MHz ram.
The ram is my first and most pressing concern. First of all this motherboard doesn’t recognize that its 400mhz Ram it registers it a 333mhz I guess this is a problem that is well known by Asus and is being worked on or something like that. I kind of assumed that well a dual core would make a huge difference in the way I do things and not bog down constantly.
But though it seems that I have everything put together and good specs this comp tends to bog down and have to sit there thinking semi frozen all the time. Now the oddest things about that is the CPU rarely gets above 20% - 30% however the ram usage does hang at a constant 500 - 600 megs.
I don’t have any idea if the ram usage is normal or if this comp shouldn’t ever be hanging with the amount of ram it has or what.
Specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+
GFX: eVGA 7800 Gt
HDD: 2x Seagate 200 gigs
CD/DVD: Nec 16x DVD +RW
Mobo: Asus A8n SLI
Ram: 1 Gig 400 MHz ram.
The ram is my first and most pressing concern. First of all this motherboard doesn’t recognize that its 400mhz Ram it registers it a 333mhz I guess this is a problem that is well known by Asus and is being worked on or something like that. I kind of assumed that well a dual core would make a huge difference in the way I do things and not bog down constantly.
But though it seems that I have everything put together and good specs this comp tends to bog down and have to sit there thinking semi frozen all the time. Now the oddest things about that is the CPU rarely gets above 20% - 30% however the ram usage does hang at a constant 500 - 600 megs.
I don’t have any idea if the ram usage is normal or if this comp shouldn’t ever be hanging with the amount of ram it has or what.
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Re: I wonder if I am doing somthing wrong.
Sun, May 14, 2006 - 8:50 AMA system seemingly freezing up with low CPU usage is usually a video problem. I'm not a fan of Asus, so who knows if it's a bus problem or a bad card or drivers not doing their job.
