Hey Cliff, It's rather nice seeing your videos on this intel i7 2600. I built a i7 2600k system back in March of 2011 and it still running great. Specs : MSI P67A-GD65/16 gigs DDR3 1600mhz/500 gig Samsung 860 pro SSD/Zotac GTX 680. I was wondering about something in the ram tab and might want to compare notes? Anyways Thanks for the video series and will continue watching to see how it performs.
@@cliffscustoms Hey, Thanks for the quick response... Nothing much really, Just the speed rating under the memory tab. I think my system shows an improper speed rating either from Windows or the bios.. (66mhz) I'm still using an early bios from April of 2011. Was just curios what yours said for mhz rating for speed? Any ways, thanks again for the revisit of Intel's stellar second Gen.
@@Obie327 Turns out that system/CPU combo only clocked the RAM at 1333MHz (667MHz). The limited Lenovo BIOS had no controls for memory timings unfortunately. Do you have an option to enable XMP in the BIOS? Looks like Sandy Bridge only supports 1333MHz natively.
@@cliffscustoms The bios and ram being used is 1600mhz Corsair Vengeance pro 1.5 volts. (4+4 gig sticks) I'm using XMP @ 1600 mhz but wonder since the either the system or bios is very elderly now or might have a failing memory channel or just a miss reporting with proper speeds. I came across a boot loop and reset the ram sticks in socket to fix. (ended up building a Ryzen 1600X at the time for a backup just encase of total failure) The Intel Sandy system has repeated said issue 3 times after that.) She basically running a 4 ghz overclock which is been perfectly stable with low volts applied.
I have a old i5 2500k PC I got for free that seems to be doing what your PC was doing with the blue screen on windows 10, using Linux it doesn't crash but when I run windows 10 I get a "kmode exception not handled" and task manager shows that it's always at 100% and running at 3billion ghz. I'll have to try a different bios it seems, I've never flashed a bios before so hopefully I don't break it.
@@cliffscustoms no it's a custom built PC with a ASRock p67 extreme4 gen3 motherboard. I've tried all different components besides the CPU and motherboard so I'm hoping it's just a bios issue and not the motherboard, never had a broken CPU before so I doubt that's it.
After doing a bit of research that I for some reason never did it seems that it definitely is a bios issue on newer versions of Windows and I somehow have to update the bios through the OS but it can be a bit of a problem since it has bsod randomly so I'm not really sure what I'm going to do yet. Maybe this will just be my first dedicated Linux PC as it works fine on that.
@@mashedpotatoes5323 Ah I was about to say might just need to flash the latest BIOS. In my case I installed Windows 7 so it was stable on the Lenovo machine so I could flash the correct BIOS without worry.
@@cliffscustoms I don't have any copy's of Windows 7 and I don't believe windows 7 is like windows 10 where installing it you can just click "I don't have a product key" and it installs without the key.
Wow this is really tuning into a great series!
Hey Cliff, It's rather nice seeing your videos on this intel i7 2600. I built a i7 2600k system back in March of 2011 and it still running great. Specs : MSI P67A-GD65/16 gigs DDR3 1600mhz/500 gig Samsung 860 pro SSD/Zotac GTX 680. I was wondering about something in the ram tab and might want to compare notes? Anyways Thanks for the video series and will continue watching to see how it performs.
Thanks for the nice feedback! Unfortunately I don't have the system anymore but I should still be able to help out. What was your inquiry on memory?
@@cliffscustoms Hey, Thanks for the quick response... Nothing much really, Just the speed rating under the memory tab. I think my system shows an improper speed rating either from Windows or the bios.. (66mhz) I'm still using an early bios from April of 2011. Was just curios what yours said for mhz rating for speed? Any ways, thanks again for the revisit of Intel's stellar second Gen.
@@Obie327 Turns out that system/CPU combo only clocked the RAM at 1333MHz (667MHz). The limited Lenovo BIOS had no controls for memory timings unfortunately. Do you have an option to enable XMP in the BIOS? Looks like Sandy Bridge only supports 1333MHz natively.
@@cliffscustoms The bios and ram being used is 1600mhz Corsair Vengeance pro 1.5 volts. (4+4 gig sticks) I'm using XMP @ 1600 mhz but wonder since the either the system or bios is very elderly now or might have a failing memory channel or just a miss reporting with proper speeds. I came across a boot loop and reset the ram sticks in socket to fix. (ended up building a Ryzen 1600X at the time for a backup just encase of total failure) The Intel Sandy system has repeated said issue 3 times after that.) She basically running a 4 ghz overclock which is been perfectly stable with low volts applied.
@@Obie327 Yep sounds like it's a case of an aging board.
I have a old i5 2500k PC I got for free that seems to be doing what your PC was doing with the blue screen on windows 10, using Linux it doesn't crash but when I run windows 10 I get a "kmode exception not handled" and task manager shows that it's always at 100% and running at 3billion ghz. I'll have to try a different bios it seems, I've never flashed a bios before so hopefully I don't break it.
Interesting, was it another Lenovo machine?
@@cliffscustoms no it's a custom built PC with a ASRock p67 extreme4 gen3 motherboard. I've tried all different components besides the CPU and motherboard so I'm hoping it's just a bios issue and not the motherboard, never had a broken CPU before so I doubt that's it.
After doing a bit of research that I for some reason never did it seems that it definitely is a bios issue on newer versions of Windows and I somehow have to update the bios through the OS but it can be a bit of a problem since it has bsod randomly so I'm not really sure what I'm going to do yet. Maybe this will just be my first dedicated Linux PC as it works fine on that.
@@mashedpotatoes5323 Ah I was about to say might just need to flash the latest BIOS. In my case I installed Windows 7 so it was stable on the Lenovo machine so I could flash the correct BIOS without worry.
@@cliffscustoms I don't have any copy's of Windows 7 and I don't believe windows 7 is like windows 10 where installing it you can just click "I don't have a product key" and it installs without the key.