Hey guys,

Got my new Corsair Dominator 1066 RAM yesterday (P5E + Team Extreem = No Go .. ugh) and was benching a bit.

Got it up to 495x9 (memory 1188)... got me a SuperPi 1M of 10.3s. Not bad. Not bad at all.

However .. when I try to run 3Dmark .. it won't work 8 out of 10 times. At first I tought my Creative X-Fi was the problem, as the problem was gone when I took it out of it's PCI.

However now I can't get 3dmark to run again .. it crashes/freezes just after loading the first test. Playing Counter-Strike Source for 10 minutes does the same trick.

I have tried a billion settings in the BIOS, other drivers, both Vista and Server2k8 (my converted-workstation/OC-bench OS), newer beta drivers, other PCI-E slot for VGA, some Kingston PC6400 ram etc. Nothing seems to relate to this problem. I can't get it fixed.

Motherboard has been acting up before .. should I RMA it (takes forever, unless I ask for credit and buy a new one / other motherboard .. are their any other _GOOD_ x38 boards out there?)

Beside the crashing .. PC is sickenly smooth.

ps. also tried other VGA and also tried running outside the case (bare motherboard on cardboard. Oldskool) .. nothing helps. Ugh modern ASUS quality.

ps2. I also tried the pencil mod however it doesn't that great for me (almost nothing at all ..). Still seeing MASSIVE vcore drops in windows / under load. Had to push it up to 1.57V just to get 4.4ghz. Pretty sick for a 45nm.

Thanks all