Ok Folks... It's like 3 hours, and 6 beers later..

Maybe it's because I was weened on the K9A2 w/Phenom, but this board just feels SO MUCH BETTER... Granted this is an early evaluation, and I'm not sure where it's going to end up, but I can tell you that it makes alot more sense than the DS5 ever did with the 9850!!

Marginally better on the CPU clock (2.8 seemed stable) and substantialy better on the NB clock, 2400 seems doable! I couldn't even get Stock 2000 on the DS5...

I'm using the 1.4 Bios, that came installed on my RMA'd board... The one wierd thing is that reguardless of what I set my Mem V's at it cranks them up to 2.16v's, higher than I would like, but if your running a DS5 turning up Mem V's might help stability...

Oh well, it's frikin late, guess I need to go to bed... Early evaluation though is that DS5 Bios definetly has problems!