Recent content by vae victus

Hi, i was here over a year ago trying to upgrade my ram from the stock 4 gb 1066 1.5v to Patriot 8 gb 1600 1.35v which failed (even though official sources said it'll work, crucial.com as well as toshiba's website) then down to Corsair 8 gb 1333 1.5v ram which now runs to another problem where...

It'll crater hardcore. If you want to run games on high-ultra at decent FPS then you gotta bite teh bullet and get the 770 780m. TBH the 760m is a poor compromise, just go striaght to 770m.

Hey hey, my old gaming laptop, albeit with a few minor differences (360m and no SSD on mine). Kinda suprised its 1066 ram, mine had 1333 and that one should be a few months newer. Sadly my rig crapped out on me in its 3rd year. Personally i'd be intensely leery of buying used laptops (u dont...

Also a big thank you to everyone who came to help (or lurked hoping to help)!

Im gonna pop in my old ram and use cpu-z to check again, but specs listed should be 1.5v. So basically its not getting the juice it needs to run properly falling short at 1.28v when it needs 1.35v. So odd when the previous RAM needed 1.5v to power it up, makes no sense to be falling short...

MemTest shows no errors after 10 passes. I think thats enough. Gonna update the BIOs to v2.9 and see if i can change the RAM voltage settings to the proper 1.35V I've been doing some checking around, not too sure how to do that. I've monkeyed around with the BIOs before and never saw a...

Friend suggested i use memtest86 to see if i got some bad ram. Also my laptops temp seems to be running higher than usual. So i guess my laptop is now overheating like mad. Ill likely put in my old ram to see if the problem persists, so i can narrow down the culprit.

Hmm... well it says DDR3 Dual Channel 8192 Megs NB Freq 1980~ DRAM Freq 650~ FSB:DRAM 2:10 CL 9 clocks tRCD 9 tRP 9 Cycle Time tRAS 24 Row Refresh tRFC 107 Command Rate 1T

Under the SPD tab it shows i have 4 JEDECs (which i'm assuming add em all up is my 2 stick of ram). Voltage as shown is 1.28V per JEDEC. Everything looks right from my layman's eyes.

IC, that makes sense, maybe the mobo is supplying more voltage and is overloading the RAM causing the freeze. So through using CPU Z i can change the voltage?

Also in BIOS its got the right counter at 8 gigs as well

Currently it's at bio v2.30 So 1.35 is an upgrade?

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I just bought 8 gigs (2 sticks) of Patriot PC3-12800 1600MHz CL11 1.35 volts RAM to upgrade my Toshiba Qosmio x505 q870 4 gigs (2 sticks) Samsung PC3 - 8500S 1066 MHz 1.5 volts RAM from a brick and mortar Fryes. I merrily watched a YouTube vid of how to swap out the RAM and made sure all the...

Bumpity Also quick question, is it worth spending a few hundred bucks upgrading the laptop? (buy ssd, new vid card) or should i look to get another gaming laptop when this thing rides off into the sunset?