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<blockquote data-quote="Digerati" data-source="post: 697923" data-attributes="member: 59833">Nah! It would not be that. Understand dual channel memory did not pan out to be the big performance boon the original hype made it out to be. By a long shot, more RAM trumps faster RAM any day. If the memory architecture was the problem, you would be seeing problems from the start, not after 4 hours of running. No. It does not matter what type RAM the graphics card uses. They are basically unrelated systems and neither one cares how the other uses RAM.Did the previous owner have these problems?What are your temps? Is the interior clean of heat trapping dust?You might want to run with just one just one stick of RAM and see what happens. While not 100% conclusive, testing your RAM with a good memory tester might be good too. I recommend <a href="http://www.memtest86.com/" target="_blank">MemTest86</a>. Allow the diagnostics to run for several passes or even overnight. You should have no reported errors – not even one.I would also swap in a known good power supply to see what happens. Since everything inside the computer depends on good clean stable power, it is essential you verify you are supplying it. If by &quot;supports DDR3 at the same time&quot; you mean getting a motherboard that supports both DDR2 and DDR3, I don&#039;t recommend these boards. These are called &quot;cross-over&quot; motherboards and are rare thus more expensive. Note they do NOT support both at the exact same time. That is, you can only have one type or the other type installed at any given time, not both. And note DDR3 has already been superseded by DDR4 (by almost 4 years now). So if buying a new motherboard, it does not makes sense to go with DDR3. And as you suspect, a new motherboard is considered a new computer for software licensing purposes so that will require the purchase of a new Windows license. So you will need to factor that into your budget.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Digerati, post: 697923, member: 59833"] Nah! It would not be that. Understand dual channel memory did not pan out to be the big performance boon the original hype made it out to be. By a long shot, more RAM trumps faster RAM any day. If the memory architecture was the problem, you would be seeing problems from the start, not after 4 hours of running. No. It does not matter what type RAM the graphics card uses. They are basically unrelated systems and neither one cares how the other uses RAM. Did the previous owner have these problems? What are your temps? Is the interior clean of heat trapping dust? You might want to run with just one just one stick of RAM and see what happens. While not 100% conclusive, testing your RAM with a good memory tester might be good too. I recommend [URL='http://www.memtest86.com/']MemTest86[/URL]. Allow the diagnostics to run for several passes or even overnight. You should have [U][B]no[/B][/U] reported errors – not even one. I would also swap in a known good power supply to see what happens. Since everything inside the computer depends on good clean stable power, it is essential you verify you are supplying it. If by "[I]supports DDR3 at the same time[/I]" you mean getting a motherboard that supports both DDR2 and DDR3, I don't recommend these boards. These are called "[I]cross-over[/I]" motherboards and are rare thus more expensive. Note they do NOT support both at the exact same time. That is, you can only have one type or the other type installed at any given time, not both. And note DDR3 has already been superseded by DDR4 (by almost 4 years now). So if buying a new motherboard, it does not makes sense to go with DDR3. And as you suspect, a new motherboard is considered a new computer for software licensing purposes so that will require the purchase of a new Windows license. So you will need to factor that into your budget. [/QUOTE]

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