DDR2 8500 RAM Bandwidth Seems Low

Well after running SANDRA like you asked my results are about half of what I'm getting with Everest, about 3GB/s which is actually half exactly so I dunno maybe it's SANDRA throwing off the results.

I have a set of OCZ PC8500 SLi memory in a Biostar Tforce 965PT with a E6300. It will run the memory at 1066 5-5-5-15 but not when I'm overclocking much. At 1.86GHz and DDR-800 3-4-4-12 it has a Sandra bandwidth score of 5333, at 3.045GHz and DDR 870 4-4-4-12 it's 7388. If I only could get 4:5 ratio to work at that speed it might be closer to 8500.

I am telling you it is the board

I can't even get my RAM to lower lantencies of 4-4-4-12 from 5-5-5-15 because it won't boot. My voltage is 2.2v which are the defaults so do you have to increase anything to get it stable or would lowering to 800 like you help if thats what you had to do?

I did try a FSB of 1332mhz but my PC got the BSOD after 20mins even though in that time I did manage to get SANDRA to benchmark the memory bandwidth: 6942mbs/6964mbs.

Its easy enough to get to 1280 FSB but anything beyond that ends up in a restart so stability is a problem for me. It may be the CPU that caused the crash cause the max FSB on the QX6700 is 1066 whilst the QX6800 is 1333FSB. Upon reading this article it may seem that the CPU isn't as good as the QX6800 for upping the FSB to 1600+ to achieve 8.7gb/s in SANDRA but even this crashed their setup.