i7 920 and 1600 ram woes, and Mobo queries

I have a P6T regular motherboard and I think it's defective. The ram i have will not work at 1600mhz in triple channel no matter what I try. After chatting with Patriot on their forum they suggested a faulty motherboard since any stick of ram in slot A at 1600 mhz will freeze the system in 3 minutes flat; but, any stick in slot B is fine. Patriot Forums link

Now i've heard a lot of other people having trouble with the P6T and ram, so has anyone successfully ran triple channel at 1600 on the P6T. I might just upgrade to a better motherboard, what boards are people having luck with for a i7 920 D0 and 1600 triple channel ram?

My D0 chip seems to overclock like a champ, i just need a motherboard to juice it properly and hopefully get the ram doing 1600!

My full system specs are in the sig.

Cliffs: Cant fix the problem / Rampage II extreme

I don't know how to solve your problem. But my rampage II extreme is SICK! i love this thing, god knows i cried a little when i bought it because of how much it was but it was worth every penny. I run my G-skill memory 3 X 2GB 1600MHz mem @ 1800 everyday and runs like a champ overclocks are amazing as well iv hit 4.34GHZ on my C0 stepping chip and i know its not the board holding me back its just my chips top clock "mgoode" has hit 4.6GHz with his i7 D0 on this board. its a great board i highly recommend!

Just finished setting up my first i7 build - a P6T / 920 D0 for a friend running 3x 2GB OCZ PC1600 Platinum.

After updating the BIOS to the latest (606 IIRC) I changed eight settings:
Express Gate: Disabled
SATA Mode: RAID
Turbo: Off
Bclk: 200
DRAM: 1600
CPU voltage: 1.25
QPI/DRAM core voltage: 1.25
DRAM voltage: 1.64

= rock solid 4Ghz with triple channel PC1600.

Maybe your board is bad?

I think I might have the same problem as you, but I'm using the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P. It boots up fine at stock settings, but when I adjust the RAM to 1600 speeds it won't work. I have G.Skill Pi Black 3x2gb. Sorry to invade your thread, just thought I'd let you know you're not the only one and that I'm also looking for answers.

I have i7 920 D0 on P6T board with Gskill DDR3-1600 ... have no problem gettting my chip running @ 4.2GHz ... (RAM @ 1600)

http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=6114067&postcount=19

Thanks for the replies, I RMA'd the motherboard. I'm hoping that will solve the problem, otherwise I've heard people needing upto 1.6v uncore, but that is pretty far outside of safe specs.

I updated my BIOS and as far as I can tell the memory is now running at the speed it should