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Sandy 3700 borked?

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Lo chaps, just a quick question, I run a sandy 3700, usually at 3ghz using a vapols. I'm using a dfi sli d board with some gskill pc4800 (2x512). Had a problem a couple of weeks back as I was running the memory at 1T @ 300mhz 2.5-4-4-8, kept getting freezing and crashes. Like a pillock I ramped the volts up from 1.75 to 1.83 (in bios). After this I found the ram wasn't even stable at 2.5-4-4-8 @ 275 (I reduced vcore back to about 1.75), I currently running a divider so ram is like 200 @ 2-2-2-5 with 300htt. Even this isn't stable , (well sometimes is, sometimes isn't) even running @ 280 with 133 divider at 2.5-3-3-6 still random lock ups :(

So I'm wondering have I borked my memory controller? The dfi isn't the easiest to configure, however I've used every setting I can find on anandtech for my board and the gskill and still no joy!!!

If it has died what you guys reckon I go with cpu wise? Got 300 odd to spend, possibly 400, May be able to get a second hand fx57, or do I go dual core or opty dual core? Also what are dual cores like under vapols?

Cheers folks
 
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