Quote Originally Posted by linflas View Post
no, I doubt it, 99% of the time a blue screen is related to the memory, usually would just hard lock or crash without blue screen if CPU.

Do you have any other ram you can try, or have you run a memtest on that ram at stock speed to see if it is OK, it sucks to do, as you should run memtest for 8 hours, but you might find the source of your problem.

Also if your ram is D9 based micron chips you should drop your voltage to the 1.9-2.0V range in the bios, the 680i seems to be better on lower volts with D9.

Good luck, got my RMA Striker today, soldered in bios chip, which pretty much sucks ass, only good thing is, is that MWAVE.com sent me a whole new retail box motherboard, all I shipped them was a mobo, they shipped me a brand new retail mobo, no complaints there, as no refurb, brand new. My ram will be back tomorrow, will get things fired up before I leave for work tomorrow night, but won't be able to really play with it until monday.


OK - I fired up the 3.3 memtest and tested at both 1333/800 and 1066/800 (default) and both tests puked all over itself. So i went to the OCZ website and put in the suggeted settings for my motherboard. They included settings to adjust in the Advanced Settings portion - taking away auto and putting in (6/22/6/10/2/10/38/1.75ns) Not sure if this will reduce my memory bandwidth to a garden hose, but after that I can pass Memtest - at least a LOT futher and longer than before. I have NOT done an 8 hour grind yet.

BUT- trying to incorporate those settings mixed with settings in the thread for various clock speeds still leads to blue screens. I'll set up the OC and see if it passes memtest, but my first attempt at 1422/799 did fine with Memtest but not with windows.

So - - i'm at a crossroads. Get a new mobo such as an Intel 38 and run just ONE card in hopes of a higher overclock, or continue using 2x 8800GTX in SLI........