Asus 990fx R2.0 crashing during gaming

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Hello, I have a new build with Sabertooth 990fx r2.0 and crossfire xfx R7950 GPUs with two 8Gb Corsair Ballistics 1866 RAM (total of 16Gbs). Very unstable during game play (WoW, Tera) freezing and crashing with ram at 1866. I set the RAM to "auto" in the bios which reports as 1333 and it is more stable but still freezes and crashes, just less. My question is, is this a problem with this board? Is this possible bad RAM? I read the other threads and see similar questions but not exactly what I'm experiencing. Thanks in advance, Michael

system also includes:
windows 7 ultimate
1300W psu
AMD FX 3850 (default clocked to 4K)
Corsair H80 CPU cooler
 
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Not that anyone was watching this anyway but, I solved the issue. I increased the voltage on the ram in increments of 0.05V and the CPU/north bridge voltage by increments of 0.02V until I got it as stable as it was going to get. It would still crash with the same error every now and then. So, I followed my gut instinct and got rid of the ATI cards and replaced them with an SLI set up of two STRIX 970 GTX cards. It's been absolutely stable ever since. I new better then to buy those ATI cards at the time but thought that after so many years since the last time I was burned by Radeon surely they were much better. Now I know.

I don't know how to move this thread to Video Hardware but would if I could.
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Okay, that took a while. memcheck64+ found no errors. I did however notice that the CMD in the bios was set to T1 and changed it to T2. I rebooted and logged into WoW which ran for about twenty minutes before crashing and this time I got a "Video driver stopped working and has recovered" message. That's new. I should also note that when I changed the T1 to T2 I also set the clock on the DRAM back to 1866 and re-ran memcheck. Again, no errors. This was the configuration that I re-booted WoW with. So, rebooted WoW and played on... same crash, same driver error message.

Should also note that prior to all of this I made sure that the AMD catalyst/drivers were the most current. Also, the Asus 990FX bios is 2501, also the most current.

Also just noticed that I called my RAM "Ballistics", oops. that's another build. This RAM is Corsair Vengeance, red.
 
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Okay, that took a while. memcheck64+ found no errors. I did however notice that the CMD in the bios was set to T1 and changed it to T2. I rebooted and logged into WoW which ran for about twenty minutes before crashing and this time I got a "Video driver stopped working and has recovered" message. That's new. I should also note that when I changed the T1 to T2 I also set the clock on the DRAM back to 1866 and re-ran memcheck. Again, no errors. This was the configuration that I re-booted WoW with. So, rebooted WoW and played on... same crash, same driver error message.

Should also note that prior to all of this I made sure that the AMD catalyst/drivers were the most current. Also, the Asus 990FX bios is 2501, also the most current.

Also just noticed that I called my RAM "Ballistics", oops. that's another build. This RAM is Corsair Vengeance, red.
 
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Not that anyone was watching this anyway but, I solved the issue. I increased the voltage on the ram in increments of 0.05V and the CPU/north bridge voltage by increments of 0.02V until I got it as stable as it was going to get. It would still crash with the same error every now and then. So, I followed my gut instinct and got rid of the ATI cards and replaced them with an SLI set up of two STRIX 970 GTX cards. It's been absolutely stable ever since. I new better then to buy those ATI cards at the time but thought that after so many years since the last time I was burned by Radeon surely they were much better. Now I know.

I don't know how to move this thread to Video Hardware but would if I could.
 
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