Quote Originally Posted by RLM View Post
Well trying different straps and ratios and I'm back to the same problems. Doesn't want to boot to OS. This is far short of what I can easily achieve on the 790i.

I know it's easy to just give up and blame the hardware, a bad workman blames his tools, but I'm not convinced that patience and a week of tweaking is going to rectify these issues. Especially seeing other's experiencing similar issues.

The other real concern for me is temps. During a prime blend I've seen 72c on 2 of the cores. Not sure how accurate that is, but I would expect sub 60 especially for blend. Someone has mentioned that it's the 16 phase that's possibly behind this. Really can't afford to fry this chip.

As I need to be running a quad core for my 3d work, it's looking like I maybe getting rid of the board. My fault really, should have read up a bit more. Blinded by the fantastic results that the board achieves with 8600s and the right RAM.

Any recommendations or thoughts on this will be appreciated. I'm thinking P5E3 premium maybe? Or is that out of the frying pan into the fire?

RLM
I understand your frustration as I'm in the same boat. I've tried a myriad of different settings and the only thing that wants to work is AUTO.

It's definitely a RAM issue as far as I can see, but I'm not sure yet. I'm going to try the new bios and see where it gets me. I can't even get my memory to run at its rated speed so far, even on crazy relaxed timings.