Installing

[Nabobalis]

Since I'm upgrading to a 6600gt from a geforce 2. Do I have to uninstall the drivers or can I just unplug the card and put the new one in?

 

[Asus]

I would recommend it but I don't think it will be required.

 

[OmegaX]

Yea, just uninstall the old drivers, Shut down the PC, Plug in the new card and go from there.

 

[Glirk Dient]

As said above...definately un install and then shut down. If you don't un install you are going to get some serious problems and won't be able to fix them. MAKE SURE you un install them or else it will be a big hassle.

After you un install just shut down, put in new card and install new drivers, pretty easy really. I wonder why comp store offer $30-$50 to do it. n00bs.

 

[sinkoman]

Because some gamers, like my 10 year old cousin, can't or don't know how to take the card out and put the new one in. It may be quite easy, but you have to remember that not all gamers are hardware savvy.

Anyway, I would recomend you also go check out the Forceware Tweak Guide at www.tweakguides.com. Good guide, which will show you how to do a completely clean Forceware installation, with no leftover bits of older drivers.

Although I would say, don't forget to read ahead when going over the guide. I had to do a reformat because I accidentally deleted some motherboard drivers while cleaning out the old install once, and my pc wouldn't even boot up. Something that wouldn't have happened if I had just read the warning to those using NVIDIA chipsets a few sentences down.

 

[Nabobalis]

I just installed the other stick of ram and CPU-Z says that the ram is at 160mhz.
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So does it matter that much? and should I do something about it? or just leave it?

 

[duffers20]

It looks like the ram is operating at the fastest available speed in which both dimms are operating at the same timings, so thats why the overall speed is 160mhz, and not 200mhz. If you can, take back the newer dimm and get one with teh same timings at 200mhz, and it should be fine.

 

[Nabobalis]

It looks like the ram is operating at the fastest available speed in which both dimms are operating at the same timings, so thats why the overall speed is 160mhz, and not 200mhz. If you can, take back the newer dimm and get one with teh same timings at 200mhz, and it should be fine.

Any thing else I can do? As I dont think I can return it

 

[Ti133700N]

3-3-3-8 is not very good, let me guess, it was cheap.

 

[Nabobalis]

3-3-3-8 is not very good, let me guess, it was cheap.

Yep, very cheap. Its Corsair value select range

 

[DrDevin]

What CPU are you using? Your ram should run at the same speed as your CPU's front side bus. Change it so that they are the same (in the bios).

 

[Nabobalis]

What CPU are you using? Your ram should run at the same speed as your CPU's front side bus. Change it so that they are the same (in the bios).

Here You are

Can't I like increase the Cas timing to 3 on the ram I just installed so they both run at 200mhz?

 

[duffers20]

Here You are

Can't I like increase the Cas timing to 3 on the ram I just installed so they both run at 200mhz?

You could try that, I don't think increasing the timings can cause system instability, only lowering them can do that I think, althohugh I havent really messed about with timings before. I think if you were to increase teh timings on teh older dimm to match teh newer one, it might run both at 200mhz

 

[DrDevin]

Wait I didnt look at your memory close enough. You should be buying all your ram from the same manufacturer. Your samsung ram is slower then your corsair. Set your ram timings to the samsungs timings as it is slower, ie. cas 3 (like you said). Then check if you are running dual channel and 200mhz. Also make sure you set it to run at 200mhz as i said before.

It would help if i could get a screenshot of your ram menu in the bios.

 

[duffers20]

he is using socket 754 which only has a single channel memory controller, so the best he can do is get his ram running at 200mhz

 

[Nabobalis]

Anyone tell me how to underclock my memory?

 

[duffers20]

Will be an option in teh bios to do that.

 

[sinkoman]

It looks to me as if the ram isn't dual chanel. My memory used to operate at 166 back when I put it in the wrong slots for dual channel use.

Read your motherboard manual and double check the slotting. I reread and figured "aye, it's good" and just went on. Boy was I wrong

 

[Nabobalis]

It looks to me as if the ram isn't dual chanel. My memory used to operate at 166 back when I put it in the wrong slots for dual channel use.

Read your motherboard manual and double check the slotting. I reread and figured "aye, it's good" and just went on. Boy was I wrong

I dont think my motherboard supports it. Also I never got a manual for the motherboard.

Will be an option in teh bios to do that.

Any more help then that?

 

[duffers20]

Not sure how I can really help more, all you have to do is find the option in the bios that allows you to change the ram timings. They will have the same names as CPU-Z gives them, and all you have to do is make sure that the timings are the fastest for the 200mhz DIMM, so that would be: 3 3 3 8

 

[Nabobalis]

Not sure how I can really help more, all you have to do is find the option in the bios that allows you to change the ram timings. They will have the same names as CPU-Z gives them, and all you have to do is make sure that the timings are the fastest for the 200mhz DIMM, so that would be: 3 3 3 8

Thanks, I got to work now. One more question, when I install my 6600gt, do I have to enable fast write and change the agp interface and the other agp setting, measured in 128mb 256mb, can’t remember the name?

 

[Asus]

Leave AGP apeture at 64MB or 128MB.
You can enable AGP fast write unless you run into issue (game crashing) then I would disable it. Or you can leave it disabled, you won't notice the difference either way.