ahh cool cool. i have a question from a friend (we are currently doing the first startup of his MONSTER gaming system haha (i7 2600k, 6950, the works pretty much) he asks, "I have 3 sticks of RAM (one of which was faulty during startup and was doing the cycle startup shutdown thing) all of which are 2GB 1600Mhz. if i were to replace the faulty 3rd stick of RAM with 2 RAM sticks of the same type, so all 4 sticks are dual-channel, would i be better off doing that or just replacing the faulty one?" i hope that made sense, because it didnt when i was writing it.