Damn and blast, I think the memory I had is dodgy
So I setup a minimal install, with a low end nvidia gfx card, just the cpu loop, memory, hdd etc just the bare essentials, planning on installing the OS and getting everything stable before installing the 295's.
It wouldn't detect all 3 DIMMS only showing 4GB and was unstable as hell. Tried a few things, swapping DIMMS out and it was just failing all over the shop. Then after a while it wouldn't boot up at all
Or it would boot, stop, then reboot itself but no signal on the monitor and no beeps or HDD noises, just lights and fans. Exactly the same if I booted it with no memory at all.
Reset CMOS, removed hardware tried every bloomin thing.. then tried the memory in my other rig and it was all over the shop very flaky, crashing, not booting etc etc.
Popped the OCZ back in and it was sweet as a nut... so....
DAMN YOU CRUCIAL AND YOUR 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 Ballistix Memory (Part number BL3KIT25664BN1608)... DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!
Ordered some OCZ, hope the mobo isn't b0rked