Quote Originally Posted by milkmandan View Post
I can place and hold my fingers on the heat-spreaders just fine and hold them as long as i need. Not even as hot as a car steering wheel on a baking day. I got some good airflow down there as I have a 120mm fan next to the RAM as well. and I have 2 more 120mm fans blowing at the OCZ cooler as well. Though aren't FB-DImms suppose to run hot? :\

OCZ works fine for me :\ It's better than the dominator in my opinion.
If ram heat is the issue, i prolly should purchase some heatsinks like jcool. but not until i find out what the problem is.

2nd pass for memtest, 70% done and no problems so far :\

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aww now this is messed up...

I am underclocking, 2.25GHz, at 375FSBx 6. And prime is giving me that stupid rounding error again.
I've even fed the NB 1.40V, which is the highest setting O_O...

I am unstable even at underclocking. wow....

memtest ran perfectly at 400x6 :\ 3 complete passes, 6 hours of testing, no errors *sigh*

I am getting a strong itch that maybe although my RAM is 'okay', the speed clock is lying, and that its not really 800 but 667.

the BIOS - system information - memory information shows my RAM at 667Mhz, but i duno if thats because of the E5430 :\
what does ur say jcool? I know you got E5420's, so theoretically, ur BIOS should also report your RAM as 667. :\

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any more suggestions?

at stock voltages....going to slowly step up from 333 and see when prime starts to crap out on me.
You tested temps after being loaded for an hour or so, right? At idle the fb-dimm's arent so bad but when loaded they heat up. No they are not supposed to run hot, they just do because they are consuming way more power than an average stick of DDR2.