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[Tony]

Since i have returned my ocz platinum 1600 because of RMA , i bought Corsair in the meantime to known if this motherboard is really so difficult to overclock .
And the answer is : NO ! The raison : the OCZ i had was effectively the first raison of my big trouble !

I hope it will not be the same problem with the reaper 1800 i wait from OCZ to replace the platinum .
At that moment , i will know if i sell back the corsair or the ocz and will keep the best of course !

Its nothing to do with one brand Vs another, its to do with the IC's used, their binning and how to tune the board to suit them. I hope the modules did not run spec as RMAing just because the modules failed to overclock as high as you wanted costs OCZ a lot of money.

In tech support you learn that many people just don't have the patience to sit with a board and learn what works and what does not, some IC types need very little tweaking to get stable, some need a ton of tweaking. I have been working with this board for 3 days now, 10hrs a day as our tech support dept flagged it as a problem board with many having issues setting the board up with high speed dimms.
There are a lot of factors you guys fail to really talk about, such things as X48 chipset yield, QC of the build of the boards and sharing OC profiles. I see a ton of posts showing bios setup when all you have to do is post up the profile CMO file and let others try it out.

So to address your 1600 plats not doing to well, they are a more tightly binned module and really do not have the headroom of other modules. Better kits for overclocking are the 1800 or the 1333EB kits which use the high bin Micron IC's. Also if 1GB modules are all that is needed the 1600Flex 6-6-6-24 modules are awesome...although they are harder to set up due to the voltage and frequent skew requirements.

[jeanjean15]

Its nothing to do with one brand Vs another, its to do with the IC's used, their binning and how to tune the board to suit them. I hope the modules did not run spec as RMAing just because the modules failed to overclock as high as you wanted costs OCZ a lot of money.

Not at all . Since one month , i tried to use my ocz kit at their specified timming .
I lost a lot of time to try to succeed but it was impossible .
I make clear that i am not a beginner in overclocking .

Even at bios default setting, my system was freezing !

I bought a very expensive motherboard and memory kit not to have such nightmare !

I don't know how is responsible : asus, intel or ocz . It is not my work to know the reason .

All what i see is that i had got a lot of errors with memtest 2.01 and this ocz kit .

If i had known i will have such problem , i would have bought a asus rampage motherboard and ddr2 !!