Ok - making some progress with the dominator 2kc7's
This is with MCH core at 1.48v and dramv at 1.78v.
cpu @ 4300, no oc on the vc, no Areca, x25-v as the boot and HDD target drive
Not done yet but doing much better!
Thanks for all the help guys!

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