Ok no idea what I'm doing here (used AMD for the past 11 years), but priming at 3Ghz (333 x 9) only things I have changed in BIOS are PCI-E freq to 100, FSB to 333 memory to DDR2 800 and some anti v droop thing. CPU-ID reports 1.400v and the clock speed keeps dropping to 2GHz (multi goes from 9 to 6) Speed step is disabled!

So far both cores are at 43C load.

What else to I have to select do on this wintel rig to make it go faster?

Also is it an Asus feature that the power putton has to be pressed twice to post after it has been swiched off at the wall? If the power has not been cut from the wall the power button works first time.....