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I take back everything bad I said about the DFI Lanparty

The Sauce

The Sauce

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Ok, here's what happened. I set up the Lanparty and was getting random crashes all over the place. Finally found that one stick of OCZ Platinum was bad. Ran with the good stick but still getting all sorts of random errors and reboots. Tried a set of Mushkin and got no-POST. Ordered a new set of g.skill ZX and still got Windows reboots.

I finally gave up and bought an Epox 9NPA+. Installed the Epox and reinstalled Windows and everything ran FINE. Figured it was the mobo. But...the Epox can't o/c worth a damn. I could run my Opty 165 @ 2.6 on the DFI but not even stable at 2.3 on the Epox. Figured I'd give the DFI one more try.

Reinstalled the DFI with the g.skill (returned the OCZ)...now everything is PERFECT! Running at 2.6, not a single error or crash in a week. Prime stable for 24 hours. So what must have happened is that the bad OCZ memory corrupted that Windows installation and it just kept making everything seem buggy until I reinstalled Windows with the Epox board. Talk about a complicated problem to troubleshoot.

I would like to say also that the bad memory stick passed Memtest86 for 10 hours...worthless program IMO. It would fail in Prime Blend in 10 minutes.
 
Do we need another retraction? The Epox is a very good overclocking board (in my and Anandtech's experience), and I think you just had a BIOS setting wrong or something like that.
 
I've also had good luck with overclocking Epox boards.

Snatchface, takes some 'nads to publicly admit you were wrong. Props for that, and glad your problem has been solved. :beer:
 
dont want to sound like a di*k...but you installed something with faulty hardware, and after replacing it, haven't thought of reinstalling windows...hmm...must have had all great experiences with the microsoft os, cause that would have been the 1st thing i did 🙂
 
Thank God for RAM standards! (That's pure sarcasm.) What a joke! Not a late model mobo out there w/o RAM issues, leastwise, not from what I'm reading.
 
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