- Joined
- Jul 24, 2007
- Location
- Oregon
Well.. long story short.. a few months ago, I bought a combo deal at Frys. It was an E6750 + ECS G33 board for ~250.. Wasn't a bad deal seeing is how they were selling the board for $30. So, I though to myself, get a new board, and overclock the 6750 just like everyone else!! E6750, to 3.0 Ghz on stock cooling!!! OK!!
So, my parts were: E6750, 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 800mhz RAM, 7600GS, 2-300 GB HD's, and a new Sata Pioneer DVD.
Well.. I went back to Frys, and got an Azus board.. (I forget the models.. its been awhile) Pluged in the ram, and video card, and got windows installed.. After getting things finalized / installed.. random crashs, and restarts..
Took it back after reading comments on the web..
Got an Gigabyte board.. Same problem, (random crashed / restarts), same problems on the web.
Third try.. MSI.. THIRD MISTAKE.. OK FINE!!
Back to ECS, and everything is working perfectly, just no overclocking.. BTW.. I never ONCE overclocked those boards.. I didn't have the chance!
So.. what's going on guys?? Why can't I find a good stable, reliable MB that I can overclock my CPU with?? OR even run STEADY with the CPU/RAM combo?? Everytime I find one one newegg, or somewhere else, there all sketchy!!
Sigh!
So, my parts were: E6750, 2GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 800mhz RAM, 7600GS, 2-300 GB HD's, and a new Sata Pioneer DVD.
Well.. I went back to Frys, and got an Azus board.. (I forget the models.. its been awhile) Pluged in the ram, and video card, and got windows installed.. After getting things finalized / installed.. random crashs, and restarts..
Took it back after reading comments on the web..
Got an Gigabyte board.. Same problem, (random crashed / restarts), same problems on the web.
Third try.. MSI.. THIRD MISTAKE.. OK FINE!!
Back to ECS, and everything is working perfectly, just no overclocking.. BTW.. I never ONCE overclocked those boards.. I didn't have the chance!
So.. what's going on guys?? Why can't I find a good stable, reliable MB that I can overclock my CPU with?? OR even run STEADY with the CPU/RAM combo?? Everytime I find one one newegg, or somewhere else, there all sketchy!!
Sigh!
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