I use a WHS that I built and ignoring the storage area for a moment the rest of the features are compelling in my situation. I like the automatic client backups and the way it wakes my PC from standby in the night to run it. My main PC's drive died two weeks ago in a storm and I had another...
So I was just reading this page and it looks like Auzentech's X-Fi Prelude card which features Creative's X-Fi chip will soon support DD Live and DTS Interactive through driver updates. Sounds like the best of both worlds to me.
DD Live and/or DTS Connect don't require game specific support other than a 3d audio mode like EAX. They are a function of the sound card hardware which takes the audio channels and encodes them into a standard DD/DTS stream that any decoder can work with.
It would be awesome if Creative...
I suppose you could also set your RAM to 533Mhz and see if you can overclock your CPU. This might take some suspicion off your RAM for the BSOD. I don't know that much about the chipset on this board though. Maybe it has issues with RAM in all four slots. Do you have the latest official BIOS...
Run the Prime95 Torture Test at stock speeds to see if everything is working correctly. Use the Blend test so it relies on your RAM. I did this yesterday and I got an error. I then ran the SmallFFT test because it doesn't rely on RAM and it was without errors. I went back into my BIOS and upped...
Go into the BIOS and bump up the DDR2 voltage a bit. I just got my board last night and it wouldn't POST with more than one stick in until I upped the voltage 0.05v. Just do it a little at a time until you can POST with all your sticks in. A bit tedious to keep putting RAM in and taking it out...