Just built myself the most unstable rig ever!

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I went to OcUK yesterday and purchased the following.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit

Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink

OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

It took me all day to get windows xp, drivers, apps and a couple of games installed. I've had BSOD and windows needs to close this that and the other :(

I can play CSS for about 10mins and FEAR Combat for about 30mins before being kicked to desktop. I've not overclocked and i'm running everything at default. I can complete several runs of 3dmark 2006 without probs but i'm pulling my hair out, just want a stable system

I had a P5W, E6600 and 8800GTS before and never had these problems :confused:

Any suggestions?
 
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The cpu temp. under load is about 42, not done any ram timings yet as everything is on auto and i'm using a Enermax 485w Noisetaker which worked fine on my last conroe / 8800GTS build.

can anyone with the same sytem advise me on optimum bios settins please

cheers guys
 
what is your psu brand and Watt output?

i used to have problems like this on my old old old rig but i found it was the psu (q-tec) and replaced it.
 
Your Enermax should be fine. I'd say try:

-running memtest
-make sure you have the latest drivers for everything
-ensure windows is fully updated
-Make sure you have the latest BIOS version for your DS3.
 
Probably the Gigabyte causing problems ;) It probably doesn't like your Ballistix. Sounds like exactly the same issue with my DS3P + OCZ PC6400. Needless to say sent the board back and got something decent (Abit QuadGT).
 
FirebarUK said:
Probably the Gigabyte causing problems ;) It probably doesn't like your Ballistix. Sounds like exactly the same issue with my DS3P + OCZ PC6400. Needless to say sent the board back and got something decent (Abit QuadGT).
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The DS3P is a superb board.
 
Jaffa_Cake said:
The DS3P is a superb board.
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Seconded !!!

Plus I have the exact same setup (except its 6400 RAM) and I love it, solid as a rock.

I'm with triggerthat on this though, the Ballistix needs to be set to +0.4v i'd start there.
 
OP, what revision is your motherboard?

I too have the DS3P and the Crucial Ballistix and was also having problems. I've RMA'd the motherboard as I think its that. I've recieved the REV2.0 board (rather than the 3.3) so it might be a bad batch.
 
Hi guy's, Sorry it's taken me so long to get back

Right I think i've got it sorted after Triggers advice (cheers), I followed the DS3 thread and setup my bios propperly took the ram to 2.2v and timmings 4-4-4-12. I also upped the vcore to 1.45v and changed the Bus speed to 333MHz giving me a nice 3GHz overclock on the CPU.

I also clocked the 8800GTS to 600/900 giving me 600/1800 i think! using ntune.

Since these setting i've ran 3Dmark06 and scored 10216 click
I've also played CSS for a couple of hours and my rigs been on all night while i've been installing and doing bits to it and so far i've not had a single Crash, BSOD or been kicked to desktop :)

My board is the Rev 3.3 and i updated the bios to F5 btw, I'm gonna test it heavily tomorrow and see what i can get out of it as i just plucked those overclocks out of the air really :)
 
Sweet... good to here its working out ok for ya. 1.45v on the vcore might be over kill for a 3ghz overclock. Mines stable at 1.3875, i'd try knocking the voltage down a little !
 
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