Ugh. Help me choose.

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2k3eblade

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I have given up on my ASRock 775Dual-VSTA. I was hoping it would be a cheap upgrade, but it turned into a big headache. My Audigy 2 locks up using the board and the DDR implementation is dubious at best. The board runs the E6300 24+ hours primestable (Small FFTs); however, once I run Blend the system gives me a rounding error after a few minutes. I even bought DDR2-800 ram to try to fix that problem. Nonetheless, the system ever so often still gives me BSOD and rounding errors in prime95. So I am gonna ditch the board and go for another one. So far I have found on newegg.com:

ASUS P5B
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030
or
GIGABYTE DS3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128012

Will these boards work with the OCZ ram that I have? I heard DDR-800 ram is picky in which board it is in. I am also going to replace some other parts as well.

CORSAIR HX520w
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817139001

and

eVGA 256-P2-N624-AR GeForce 7900GS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130056

This video card is a little expensive for my budget. Is there something a little cheaper but better than the 6800GS that I currently own?
 
Bump for more suggestions. Mods, you should probably move this into the motherboard forum. I am leaning more towards the DS3, but I head my OCZ ram has compatibility issues with this board. Anyone have further insight to this issue? :confused:
 
Did you try RMA'ing the board? Or are you just tossing it? You could probably sell it on ebay or the fs/ft forums. I got one for my coworker, and it works great with his DDR400 ram.
 
enginurd said:
Did you try RMA'ing the board? Or are you just tossing it? You could probably sell it on ebay or the fs/ft forums. I got one for my coworker, and it works great with his DDR400 ram.
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Well it seems to be stable after I tweaked a few settings in the BIOS with the DDR2 ram. I will upgrade the board, video and PSU after Win Vista is released, which was my original plan.
 
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