Well, first off I'll have to say Hi!, since I'm new here.

You'll have to excuse me if these questions are already answered somewhere else, but it feels like cracking your head into a brick wall trying to find concrete answers to these, IMO, fairly simple questions... I'm not really looking to do any overclocking (guess I'll be slapped around a bit here, for that).

Will this board run 8Gb RAM (4x2) stable? Would you recommend 800 or 1066 Mhz?

Is this, occasional, NB temp issue I keep reading so much about a out-of-the-box fault, or something related to overclocking?

Will it actually impair real world gaming, that the P45 only supports 8x PCI-e when running CF? I'm looking to go 2x 4870. There's a lot of sites coming to different conclusions on this...

Any answers at all would be greatly appreciated.