alright guys, heres the plan for this week...

i decided to let the machine burn-in overnigth last night at stock settings with memory @ DDR2-800. letting it settle down and maybe it needs to be warmed up before i can really push it...max temp after 8 hours of orthos was 47-48c in a closed case with all fans turned down quite a bit...

i will be lapping the cpu today, so that should be an extra few degrees as well...

im inclined to think that it is some sort of setting that is holding me back...i was priming for 4 hours at 333fsb, 3000mhz with 1.45 in bios (which seems high anyway) but no matter what voltages i tried, loose memory timings i could not get prime to last more than ~3 sec at 3100 mhz... i doubt my chip is at its limit at 3000mhz...

well, i guess we'll see after the lapping...

and just incase it is at its limits, i have another oem e6600 coming in tomorrow from clubit... so ill have mnay variables to test...