nForce 790i SLI/Ultra chipset mobos - Reviews/OC/Guides

[Tyke]

For those who are having artifacts in windows dreamscene and watching videos:

It happened to me too when running the memory at 1800Mhz with BIOS 702,703,704 but not with 603. Bios 603 is the only from the latest BIOS that doesn´t give me artifacts in Windows dreamscene.

I´ve been strugling with this board for almost 45 days!!!!
By now i should be relaxing, enjoying it and playing my favorites games..... but no..not with this board...

For now i´m completely stable at 1400FSB and memory at 1800Mhz multiplier 8x. Prime95 stable, no hard freezes,no BSOD´s, no freezes when playing games etc... and NO CORRUPTION!!!
I will post my actual settings later.
But i´m not happy with what i have, i realy whant to run at 1800FSB linked and sinked with memory, because perfomance is so much better that way.

I have been having the same problems with 1800MHz. The test of stability for me is installing Crysis: even Prime95 stable and memtest passed at 1800MHz, but the system freezes when installing Crysis. It would also freeze at various other times, but always when installing Crysis. So I did a new install of Vista X64, installed no graphics drivers, no NForce drivers - just a basic installation, with my two Raptors in Raid 0 - no SLi etc. At 1800MHz linked and synced, I tried to install Crysis and it froze. I did this three times and each time it froze. I then did a new install, this time I replaced the Raptors, with two of the new VelociRaptors in Raid 0. Same settings, and Crysis installed fine!! Uninstalled and reinstalled Crysis three times, and still no freeze!! Since then, I have played movies, played Crysis, run all the Crysis benchmarks in 2 hour loops, Prime95 - no freeze!!! Then I remembered the problems THG reported with Vista and Raptors last year.

Could it be that the Raptors are the problem?
BTW this was the same with bios 0701, 0703 and 0704.