can you run bandwidth shots, pref with sisoft though i can install something else to compare. AOD says memory is single channel, only getting around 5000mb/s bandwidth and the comparitive 9700 listed in sisoft gets almost 10k. So i'm not sure if i'm really running in dual channel, or something else is wrong. memory came out of another system that managed to kill 3 sticks of mem so possible something is wrong with the remaining two.

but i'm not sure what kind of numbers i should be getting, the 5k is at 200Mhz htt, and 800Mhz mem , 4,4,4,15 for now, according to sisoft the 9700 is running pc6400 aswell so i get the feeling i am running single channel, though i can't find a single option that would switch it to dual channel in the bios, gigabyte ds5 board.

pain in the ass board so far, maybe a duff core, who knows. i can get up to 2.5Ghz pretty stable, i can briefly run at 2.7Ghz, had a few 3dmark runs at 2.75Ghz on all cores but zero stability there in real gaming.