And another update! Getting more excited now.

Though my only stability testing atm is a few hours of Prime long FFT's, Ill use some other applications later on as well. Is the AOD stability test worth anything or just like Prime small FFT, aka crap?

Good results, glad to see a little NB clocks indeed help stability then.

I just quit a Prime which ALMOST ran 6hours at 1.3125Vcore and Vnb. With ~20C ambient (Im guessing), it only became 42~43C. I also just noticed, it runs (thus far) stable at only +0.0125V from default.

Thinking quickly what Ill test now, as Im going to bed in a few minutes. Thinking to drop Vcore and Vnb at a little below 1.3V and see how it does that.

I also thought, now Im searching for lower Volts, I must be burning the CPU nicely in now. At least, I hope. I could jump and try to get 2.8Ghz again, but now I got a stable point I want to know first what Volts it really needs. I decided one thing though, just run Vcore and Vnb 1:1. Maybe the Vnb might get overvolted for only 2.2Ghz a little, but as it was one of the parameters I changed which got everything stable I don't see anything wrong with it. Also DFI BIOS recommends it, although as I said, I dont know it it's really needed.

And oh yes, I might order a 3Ware 9650SE RAID controller tomorrow since I found a shop which has it in stock RIGHT now with a nice price, about 170Euro's or so. And me and my wallet saw the announcement of WD VelociRaptors too. 300GB, 2.5" but in custom passive cooled 3.5" housing and they claim it's 35% faster than current Raptors. 299$ MSRP though.