ASUS Striker II Extreme

[Trigger5521]

Its not your cpu, it definitly your ram, i know its made for nvidia boards, but im wondering if this board dont like your ram, i mean come on i put i7 memory 1600 and was able to 2050mgz linked and synced, and you cant even get 2000, something aint right, its not the quad holding you back, its that memory.

Im at a loss, 4gb at 2000 should be no sweat, im going to buy 2 more crucial sticks and run 4x1 and see if my settings will just boot right up. Have you tried the 4 gb in the black slots ? or only white ? maybe switch em. Just something you might try to, is try 2000, with p1 p2 disabled, see if that has affect, and try 8 gigs with p1 p2 off. I would have to say at this point 8gigs aint going to go, just to much memory to overclock, you should work on 4gigs. I will try 4x1 and see what happens.

Remember 2GB RAM and dual core is a heck of alot less stress on the system. Believe me, oc'ing quads is harder. Most of those massive quad overclocks are on a p45 chipset with DDR2 ram. Nvidia has not exactly been known for making highly overclockable chipsets in the past.

When one of my cores fails prime95 with 8GB's it reduces the system stress just enoguh to let the other cores run for hours. It's a very fine line here.

I have tried P1&P2 off with 8GB no improvement. Even tried crazy relaxed ram timings, still NFG. I know there is a magic combo somewhere to get 8GB stable at 1800FSB I just haven't hit it yet. It's very time consuming because I have to reboot to test, more testing tonight.