Hi guys (especially Ace),

This is my FIRST POST. Happy I found this place. I am a recent proud owner of an Abit Pro P35 and I paired it up with a Q6600 and 2 x 1gig Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2800 (just bought two more) and I have a RAID 0 config. Right now I am running XP Pro 32bit, but once I get my new 8800GT... well, I will probably move to Vista32. I also have a Cooler Master GeminII with two Yates 1350RPM fans and I used Artic Cooling MX-2 thermal compound.

So, I have one general question... with the Vdrop being such a problem, can't a bio from Abit fix it?

OK, the MAIN reason why I am posting is because I want to overclock my PC to as high as I can and still be stable with memtest, occt and Prime. I may talk the talk but I certainly don't walk the walk.... And I really don't understand much about overclocking... SORRY. I have achieved 3.33Ghz, but I can't seem to get past that without stability problems. I would like to end up with a 3.4Ghz to 3.6Ghz system. I know I am not upping my volts enough on a buch of stuff... but I really don't understand much of what anything means.

OK, before I go on, I downloaded the newest CPU-Z program, and even though I keep my mulitplier at 9, it is registered at 6 in the program. When I first ran the program... it worked, then it WOULD SWITCH between 6 and 9 and back to 6 "right infront of my eyes!!! and now it is always on 6 when ever I check. I am pretty sure the program is just wrong, so I will not worry about it, but has anyone ever heard of a multiplier failing but everything else on the CPU works?

Ok NOW for the GUTS of this post... help me figure out how to obtain stability...

Vcore... I would put to 1.45Volts, I have it lower to achieve a 3.33Ghz clock
MCH... don't know, but I think I would try and put it to about 1.4
CPP VTT... NO CLUE
ICH... NO CLUE
DDR2... I have it to 2.2Volts.
ICHIO... NO CLUE

now I also have NO CLUE what the
CPU GTLREF 1&3 ???
GPU GTREF 0&2 ???
DDR2 REF??

Now I also have NO CLUE ABOUT MEMORY, I have not set any of the controls manually. I just try to keep my RAM running about 1150 ish... so if I clock to high, I will manually adjust the Ratio to lower the speed.

Well, thats it. I am at work... but when I go home tonight I will try your suggestions and I promise to post my progress. I must have read about 50 pages of this post... but I have not seen someone ask these questions this way and I am still confused.

Last though... is there a way to check your bios version? Which bios do you recommend.

THANK YOU!!!!