I asked the lady on the phone last week what settings they were using, and she told me that they were using optimized defaults in the BIOS and the XMP profile enabled on the RAM to run @ 1600MHz...

I am just about to send them an email asking if they can send me the report that the technician sent them...

I don't know why they can't let me talk directly to the technician, as I personally think that a lot of what I am telling them over the phone is being lost in translation, because it took me about 5 telephone calls in total to get them to test the mobo overnight, even though I asked for this to be done every single time I talked to them!!!

I am completely lost now, I could go and buy a new mobo next week, but I really dont want to pump anymore money into this system as it has already cost me over £1800 in total, and if I were to buy another mobo, and set it up only to find that the problems are still present, I will probably end up going insane and throwing all my hardware through the nearest window!!!

It is a pity there isn't anyone else I know of in my area with a similar system to me so that I could test all the hardware out on their rig, isn't there anyone on here from the North East of Scotland that owns an i7 system that would be willing to let me take my gear over to their house to test it???

I would even pay someone a little bit of cash to allow me to test my gear on their system... I guess this is a long shot, but it is the only other thing I can think of trying...