"That's
a very thorough and helpful post, thanks".
Glad you found it useful. :-)
"The
infromation in my profile hadn't been updated but is now".
Indeed, I see you've
made a considerable step up, going to the Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3
and AMD 6870.
I've not kept up on the
details of AMD cards, as you can probably tell. <g>
And I'm still not sufficiently awake to plow through the
comparison tables. But, presuming they exist and are accessible, you may be able to take advantage of
unlocking
any extra shaders, similar to the way it
can be done for the AMD 6950 cards.
This
blurb
on the 10.12a Hotfix
Drivers for the 6950 and 6970 cards may, or may not, also apply
to you. But you should probably have a look-see, just in case.
"As
soon as I swapped them over it started crashing again. I
had 2 BSODs within 5 minutes (one being the memory_corrupt one),
swapped them back and stable against.
Ah! That wasn't quite clear from your post #33.
"...when
I send it back I'll pay the extra £2 for better stuff".
Sounds like a plan.
Good luck!