Whew, a lot to read here! And it's been said many times, but let me say it again, "You Guys ROCK!". And may I say that gtj must have built the damn E6600 he knows so much!

I do have a question about a couple of things. First, my batch # is L640A683. So that is week 40, "A" stepping. Is that ok?

Also, in other threads on other boards, I have seen mention of never going over the default 1.35 vcore setting when overclocking, and that if you have to, then you have a bad E6600 and you should RMA it. But this thread begins with upping it to 1.500. Are these other threads just confused??

Thanks in advance!