Brother Esau,

My system was 8hours+ stable Prime95 before 1/30 BIOS. When 1/30 was released I simply flashed the BIOS and didnt look at it again. After the flash untill 22th of February (when I went on holiday) I didnt really play a lot. I tried out UT3 a little. But that game crashed, but I never played UT3 before the flash. Also i went on the internet when it happened and more people had those problems so I couldn't/can't tell whether the crashes came from UT3 or the BIOS.

Also I tried to get the RAM upto 586Mhz which failed, but again, I dont know whether this was due to bad BIOS or hardware.

After I came back from vacation I started to play EvE-Online again as I took a little 2~3 month brake for my new PC. Then I started to notice I crashed now and then as EvE-Online never crashed. Though I didnt know about the BIOS problems.

As internet wasn't working last friday I investigated everything a little and it seemed like the whole system wasnt stable at all. Playing around a little sometimes caused insta BSOD or longer stability. But in the end Prime95 simply gave an error and/or caused a BSOD. But if Prime95 runs 4 hours and 54 minutes finally it gave an error again at 3.5Ghz instead of 3.51Ghz. Tried old Voltage settings and higher, it didnt matter.

Also tried to put RAM on 667 divider and let the CPU run at the old settings, still a BSOD in Prime95 while running Small FFT's which hardly uses any RAM. But the CPU was for 110% stable at the old settings, both on the DFI as on the Gigabyte DQ6.

So to go short, I know my system was stable before and I never really stress tested with 1/30. But as I look now and whatever I change, it doesnt matter sooner or later there will be an error and/or BSOD. I do know that the BIOS I used before 1/30 was 11/22.

I mean, Ive D9's and I know about the electron migration but running Small FFT's and still BSOD'ing at 100% stable CPU settings makes me doubting it's due to the RAM. Both CPU and RAM tests in Prime95 seem to crash, which doesnt make any sense. Lowering the HTT by 1Mhz gave a lot of more stability, from 17 minutes to 54 minutes. And as I said before, at some point I even got 4 hours and 54 minutes before error or BSOD. But I KNOW my CPU can do 3.52Ghz 100% stable, so could my RAM do the things before although the electron migration part could have been an issue too, at least, if it was only the RAM causing BSOD's (IMO then), but it's not only the RAM.

So Dr Brother , what do you think? It doesnt really makes sense it's hardware related.