Gar--

I was starting to think about popping the P5K back in, but spent a little more
time with the 780i ..

There is as you found out a HUGE hole of some sort, where rebooting causes the A0 code on reboot. thats why I was having such a hard time. once you pass the hole, reboots are normal.

I could not get over 3.6 stable with thing until i did the vcore pencil mod.
setting higher volts to compensate for vdroop did not seem to work.

I am typing this with my quad at 4.2 (waiting for blue screen any second).
I played through the crysis demo at 4.1 no problem.

running my memory at 5-5-5-18 2t unlinked 1000

I am only running 2 of my 4 1 gig ballistix at the moment though.

can anyone point me to a read about the HT settings, I remember back in the athlon days having to keep ht in a certain range for stability, but not sure about it now, seems 5 is the loosest setting, and 4 and 3, so on is tighter? but how do you figure tha range to keep it at?

Nostromo