yeah, still leaving P1=enabled for now...SPi, as you know, is pretty much my goal with most any setup. getting this 790i down to the efficiency of the P5K3 at 500~535FSB PL6 is not going to happen, but looking at what i have pulled off here tonight, 550FSB+ might give the edge to the 790i.

as for the timings...the above were just to try and get 1100MHz, but this kit absolutely does not like tRFC below 65. although i have just been doing dual32M testing and anything near 1200MHz needs tRFC up to 65 for that.

lowered vCORE to 1.525 in BIOS and spit out a 1M at 555FSB so looks like there is a bit more headroom to be had. much thanks for the tip on higher vCORE, would have never tried that. now i really want to get this board under cold to see what it can do...where did i put those 9800GTXs