FSB question

Ok, i recently got an Epox 8RDA from newegg. After installing it and getting my watercooling up and running it was running solid...till i bought some Crucial pc3200 to try and run at 200fsb stable. Upon installign the stick i immediatly booted to 200fsb and began to run sandra and hexus pifast...all was well till i went for 3d mark 2001, to my suprise there were artifacts all over the screen! I checked my video card settings, no overclocks. So i return the ram thinking its bad, and buy some kingston HyperX pc3500, again i get the same problems at 200fsb, so i decide to knock it down to 195fsb and stable ever since.

Is this a northbridge problem? Or am i just really unlucky?

FYI- This is unmodded with original cooling (would NB heat cause such artifacts?)

Thanx

I would say yes you need to do the vdd mod it's simple I have my 8rda running 1.9 on the vdd with a iceberg copper cooler and running 218 fsb stable before all mod's 192 was my max. Try also the memory slot closiest to the cpu socket.

Some boards are picky about RAM than others