So long as you use the Expert Mode (or another that gives you full control over the settings for the RAM) in Bios Setup pages where you can tweak the ram timing and set these timings to be all the same vs using the SPD chip you will be fine. With that ram on an Asus AMD board and with a nvidia northbridge chipset, I used 5,5,5,15 and that settled the RAM down so it was happy. I wasn't though. I'll be replacing the board out of my gaming rig and put it in another PC build I'll use as a loaner when I have a customers PC in the shop for well over a week awaiting parts etc. I could easily do what you are doing and replace the RAM, which is an option. The board I have has a GFX PCIe onboard video display adapter, a PCIe slot, and I currently have a PCI Display Adapter a MX400. I'm using that display adapter until I get hold of a DX10.3 PCIe Card in the Nvidia 8800 GTX flavor for a decent price. Ultimately, I want to have three LCD panels running at the same time for working on up to four PCs on my bench as the same time. I've been doing this with a KVM switch for several years now and it is convenient to have this setup with everything networked together.

I encourage you to utilize the MaximumPC forums. These people are much like FixYa, but not such a wide range of experience. The MaxPC forums are for hard core power users. Overclockers.com I use to gain feedback on systems and parts that are more suitable than others for overclockers.

Cheers.
WV


So long as you use the Expert Mode (or another that gives you full control over the settings for the RAM) in Bios Setup pages where you can tweak the ram timing and set these timings to be all the same vs using the SPD chip you will be fine. With that ram on an Asus AMD board and with a nvidia northbridge chipset, I used 5,5,5,15 and that settled the RAM down so it was happy. I wasn't though. I'll be replacing the board out of my gaming rig and put it in another PC build I'll use as a loaner when I have a customers PC in the shop for well over a week awaiting parts etc. I could easily do what you are doing and replace the RAM, which is an option. The board I have has a GFX PCIe onboard video display adapter, a PCIe slot, and I currently have a PCI Display Adapter a MX400. I'm using that display adapter until I get hold of a DX10.3 PCIe Card in the Nvidia 8800 GTX flavor for a decent price. Ultimately, I want to have three LCD panels running at the same time for working on up to four PCs on my bench as the same time. I've been doing this with a KVM switch for several years now and it is convenient to have this setup with everything networked together.

I encourage you to utilize the MaximumPC forums. These people are much like FixYa, but not such a wide range of experience. The MaxPC forums are for hard core power users. Overclockers.com I use to gain feedback on systems and parts that are more suitable than others for overclockers.

Cheers.
WV

I'd do a goggle search for Hiren's BootCD. You can download this as an ISO file and burn it to a CD using Nero Burning ROM. Then insert into your primary CD/DVD drive tray and bootup. You'll get a prompt to boot from the Hard Drive or the BootCD. Boot to the CD and you'll see some testing programs which will help you find the comfort zone for your minor overclocking attempts. Just be aware that the best over clockers only step up a notch or two before you're BSOD to death.

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The trick is in the North bridge's ability to handle the timings of the CPU to the RAM so there's no bumping and banging of data bits, which give you the BSOD. BTW, the error codes in these screens are of little to no use and are best ignored.