Yeah nealh, your new board is working. It might need some spanking to get in line, but then it really sounds as if your ram is starting to die. I'm sure you've seen the other threads here on those sticks...your probably came form teh same batch...ordered when the "huzzah" was going around. I did too...those sticks are toast.


And yes, this board is a bit disappointing. But it's an old chipset hanging with the top guns, and not doing all that shabby, so i don't mind much. But 975x is much faster, in everything, it seems.

There are large holes is performance...if you check back to some of Tony's posts from when this board first came out, as well as eva2000's, you'll find that there are 3-4mhz holes where performance falls behind, due to the offset of the cpu bus and memory bus on the chipset. you must pick numbers that divide evenly, or performance suffers.