I have been reading this board for about 2 weeks now and finally got all of my components to build my new system today. It was good I didn't get them sooner because I had time to reseat the Circu-pipe with Artic silver Ceramique and discovered that MSI had left the applicator tape on the stock thermal material. I was wondering if any one has an opinion on basically flashing the bios right out of the box? After assembling the system I played around with overclocking in bios and got as high as 3.48 ghz (387x9) on the 1.0 bios. I haven't installed windows yet or stress tested it, I just wanted to kind of see the limits of what I could do without causing the screen to just go black (which it did when I tried 400x9). The cpu I am using is a Xeon E3110 (Q805A165). I currently also have 2 X 1gb Crucial Ballistix Tracers installed and will try adding 2 more tomorrow. Also I will be installing Vista sometime tomorrow but will probably lower the settings a little. Any ideas on whether to flash the bios before or after installing windows would be appreciated. Thanks.

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MSI P7N Diamond
Xeon E3110 / Zerotherm BTF90
4x1 Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer
MSI NX8800GTS OC
2x 160gb Deskstars Raid 0
2x Samsung S203N
OCZ GameXtreme 700
Antec P160