jbaines2615
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Hello. Ive got a problem which I have another thread about. In the course of investigating that problem I notised something that struck me as odd. I have an AMD Athlon x2 4200+ processor. This is supposed to have a cache of 1MB, 512KB in each of its cores. However both 'memtest86' and 'tufftest' see one core as having 512KB of cache and the other as having 128KB or cache. Is this normal? Could this be influencing or influenced by my restart problem (other thread)? Hmmm.... never buying from ebuyer again.
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Yes, that is a point that people should take into consideration. Me and two of my friends built new computers from comonents bought from ebuyer. None of the motherboards worked, my friends graphics card didnt work, and my other friend had another component that didnt work. Bad enough. Using my new motherboard from pcworld (same price and not as good but at least it worked) me and one friend swapped motherboards over to check what was going wrong on his copmputer, everything worked fine with my pcworld mobo but but with his ebuyer mobo it didnt even turn on, the fan just span for a second or two, so it was obveously compleatly knackerd. ebuyer sent it back to him saying they tested it and found no errors. hmmm.... so maybe we had done something wrong. were not experts. I then recieve my equiptment. Everything works fine, except my onboard graphics dont work. I use a graphics card but I dont want a motherboard that has a fault, who knows what els could be wrong? So I send it back. in the fault report I said onboard graphics dont work (as in blank screen) they sent it back clainming no fault, now I know they havnt botherd to test it, I send it back again (i actually refused the pacage which coustomer services told me to do, then of course i ring wanting to know whats going on coz its been a few days and refusing it was absolutely the last thing I should have done according to this coustomer serviceeer) So, after that phonecall magically its appeared in their warehouse that very day and a couple of days later, theyre like "oh, yeah, we didnt notis last time we tested it that theres nothing on the screen" easy Fing mistake to make isnt it. So I just wouldnt bother, oh and yeah, now it keeps restarting all the time so clearly something els theyve sold me is buggerd.
------NOT RELEVENT BUT WORTH READING IF YOUR CONSIDERING BUYING FROM EBUYER------
Yes, that is a point that people should take into consideration. Me and two of my friends built new computers from comonents bought from ebuyer. None of the motherboards worked, my friends graphics card didnt work, and my other friend had another component that didnt work. Bad enough. Using my new motherboard from pcworld (same price and not as good but at least it worked) me and one friend swapped motherboards over to check what was going wrong on his copmputer, everything worked fine with my pcworld mobo but but with his ebuyer mobo it didnt even turn on, the fan just span for a second or two, so it was obveously compleatly knackerd. ebuyer sent it back to him saying they tested it and found no errors. hmmm.... so maybe we had done something wrong. were not experts. I then recieve my equiptment. Everything works fine, except my onboard graphics dont work. I use a graphics card but I dont want a motherboard that has a fault, who knows what els could be wrong? So I send it back. in the fault report I said onboard graphics dont work (as in blank screen) they sent it back clainming no fault, now I know they havnt botherd to test it, I send it back again (i actually refused the pacage which coustomer services told me to do, then of course i ring wanting to know whats going on coz its been a few days and refusing it was absolutely the last thing I should have done according to this coustomer serviceeer) So, after that phonecall magically its appeared in their warehouse that very day and a couple of days later, theyre like "oh, yeah, we didnt notis last time we tested it that theres nothing on the screen" easy Fing mistake to make isnt it. So I just wouldnt bother, oh and yeah, now it keeps restarting all the time so clearly something els theyve sold me is buggerd.
