Well, my board is officially going to find the scrap heap soon. My good 9850 was able to boot into windows at 3ghz on 1.3v reliably, now it doesn't reliably do 2.7. I could stabilize 3ghz for small fft's, now it just plain freezes if I even get it to run. The chip aint bad, I haven't used it for more than 3-4 weeks at absolute most. All the more reason for me to get a SB750 based board.