I just throw up at the thought of the $$$ to build a good Sandy Bridge (or Ivy Bridge) setup.

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You already have Dual-channel DDR3 right? And all the other goodies? It'll run you $400.

I guess I could upgrade to an i7-2600k or thereabouts, new mobo, and new memory for about $600. Still annoys the isht out of me.

Do you still have problems with bf3 running CF? Try this and see if this will work. Apparently it's a fix for CF users. Seems like you may need to disable ULPS. What ULPS does is that it disables the second card to save power.
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There's other stuff to do as well such as getting certain ati drivers and CAP4

I'm using an i3 OC'd to 4.4 ghz, 8 gb ram, msi 6950 twin frozr III PE/OC. constant 90-110 fps in high. About 70-80 at maxed settings at 1920x1080 res

Nice, hook it up, Steve-o!

I have actually tried everything in that thread and no luck. I think it is a broader issue because I still hard lockup after the sound card and with or without cf enabled.

I might try putting my old mobo back in to see if it could be a mobo issue, but right now I am leaning towards a i7 and new mobo and triple channel ram or a new amd build depending on how much I am willing to spend.

At the end of the day bf3 will have cost me a couple grand.

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is your hyper threading disabled or enabled?
Forcing constant voltage to your gpus?
My bf3 was super buggy when I first starting using the 6950. What I had to do to fix it was re-enable HT, not allow ati to install it's own audio driver, and replace my 600 watt psu with a 750 watt. The first two things made my bf3 stop stuttering and crashing. Replacing the PSU made my computer stop crashing when under load. Whenever your bf3 crashes or locks up, it should keep a log as to why things are happening.

No difference either way.

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Did some more testing (including a lot of Memtest86+) and I think that all of the memory slots but one are bad on my board. Pulling all but one stick (4GB) seems to stop the crashing.

Performance is roughly the same (crappy Crossfire scaling) but at least it seems to be stable now... So I think I can play like this for a while until I figure out where I want to go to finish this "build."

*sigh* I can't justify an AMD CPU...

I think the strategy will be to deal with it until Ivy Bridge comes... then pick up an i7-2600k and corresponding mobo when the prices come down.

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Or... go to Microcenter and buy an ASUS P8 Z68V Gen3 and a Core i7-2600k like I just did today...

My save money idea lasted less than 24hrs. Ballin'

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So? It done yet? :-p

Haha... not yet. Tomorrow.

Steve, go ahead and return it, buy yourself a MacBook Pro!:tup: