@ Djt "The “Onboard Serial-ATA BOOTROM” that is mentioned in the motherboard manual is not even present anywhere in my BIOS." If you do not have the iostar driver (Intel SATA RAID Controller 82801IR), BIOS & ROM won't see anything connected to it yet.

@ btdvox, RE: "Im wondering waht i should have my Transaction Booster to- ive always had it to auto but im seeing most ppl have it set to enabled and level 0.

What does this do and what setting would you reccommend"

Depends on how stable your OC is. Enabling Transaction Booster and Ai Clock Twister to Strong is really only for lesser OC w/ loose timings or very stable stock speeds & ratios. Static Read Control is mainly needed fro high FSB OC's where is helps keep FSB to NB strap curve smooth/level as FSB is increased, but relaxing it to anything other then "0" can improve stability but at a memory performance cost. So relax only if unstable for high FSB and RAM frequency. For good stable performabce to 500FSB I like to keep Static Read to "enabled" , w/ Transaction Booster "Disabled" and Ai Clock Twister to "Moderate" (down to light for stability testing). Use "strong" at own risk, as it put a big stress load on MCH to NB frequency and will require more FSBT, NB and Vdim volts to keep stable. Clock Twister is basically a RAM frequency performance booster for best used in Ai OC profiling.

@ KRich, RE: "Are any of you guys having any trouble running an E6600 (B2 Stepping) with a CPU ratio of either 6 or 7?"

I had a challange getting my E6600 to 495FSB on several mobos before this (havent tryed on it yet). So it may be the CPU but mostly the lack of PLL & GTL Ref control I ahd on P5WGD2-WS and P5B.

As for this mobo, It is jsut pick with up deviders period at certain FSB to NB straps. Enabling Static Read Control helps for the most part, but manual FSB strap and RAM frequencies make it harder to lock in. Some will, most wont. Hopefully newer BIOS will fix this. Eveen most P35's were trick here too. For best stability and dailly user performance, I'd stick to 1:1 and use FSB to get frequency since thats what X38 is built for. 500FSB is a butter zone if your CPU and other stuff can get there.

Hope this helps.