Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Thread

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@ PaganII - I currently own a 9800gt green edition which is not that heavy like my former 4870x2, so I think we could rule out weight stress on the motherboard as a source of BSOD, BSOD happened with both cards inserted.

@ wez - Velociraptors are healthy; they never showed any signs of weakness/hiccups, there are no slow downs. I've used them without any issues with an Asus M3A32MVP Deluxe mobo.
Coming to your 2nd question, I think the airflow over SB and NB is decent enough, having regard to the fact that my case is outfitted with 7 vents, i.e. 1 front intake, 1 side intake, 2 bottom intakes, 1 rear exhaust, 2 top exhausts.
I have tried many options regarding small OC, like minor voltage bump for CPU-NB, and HT/SB, but it seems I haven't found the proper settings, I guess...

Funny thing is that I'm currently running my system build with all settings at stock speeds and I haven't been having any BSOD since my last re-install as of 2 months. That means I left everything on AUTO, but only those settings concerning OC and/or voltage settings. It seems my 4 sticks of Kingston HyperX won't run at their advertised speed and latency of 1600 @ CL8 which is in fact a specific Intel setting. Stock setting with these memory sticks are reported by BIOS as 1333 CL9, so that's how I'm running the timings right now. I guess performance boost isn't that much of improvement so I'd rather keep the system stable than risking other BSOD's.

To conclude it's like this, no OC equals stability, even the slightest OC (for instance running the XMP profile of 1600 CL8, it must have something to do with the Phenom II CPU being able to officially support only 1333 by its memory controller - what exceeds this setting being treated automatically as OC) means BSOD, even if it happens every 2-3 weeks (but that still doesn't make me feel secure regarding my system's stability).

Thank you again for your input and I’m looking forward for any other suggestions.
Wez, would you be so kind and post the detailed BIOS settings used/recommended by you? Thanks in advance.