Hey man, I think I figured out my problem... was doing some research 2nite on other motherboard manufacturers and i noticed some of the Asus SLI motherboards require certain types of ram.

I just sent another response to gigabyte about the motherboard to see if I can find out if this mb supports certain types of ram.. if this is the case my OCZ ram may not be compatible at all... and maybe causing the system to shut down or even annomolous video response from the video card.

Let me know what ya think

-Discrete