I have a few questions.

I got this board new back in December/January with an E8400. It booted right up (good thing since it's my first socket775 system) and it shipped with BIOS 0602. I recently tried the latest BIOS (1207 or something), but I could not overclock with it. I made sure the settings were all default before flashing, and I flashed twice to make sure nothing went bugged with the first, and it didn't fix anything. I could adjust voltages and timings and anything else, but if I adjusted the FSB, it did not stick and kept resetting to 333MHz after a reboot. Since I saw no difference in the BIOS, I reverted back to 0602 to be able to overclock again for now, and since reverting I have been able to. It's really not a big deal to me since I saw no difference between the two, but does anyone know what that was about?

Secondly, what advantages does flashing to the Rampage BIOS bring? I know the X38 and X48 are all but literally the same thing, but since so many people have flashed to the Rampage's BIOS, is it superior? I've read through the majority of this thread and some things many times over, so I may have missed it, but there's alot of information here.

Also, the Northbridge on my board runs fairly warm (~45C idle to ~53C load). I did the whole thing of removing the cooling (with a hairdryer) and replacing the stock paste with Arctic Silver 5, but it hardly helped (most people seemed to claim it should pretty much guarantee ~10C drops). Temperatures dropped maybe a degree or two, and there is a small 40mm fan on the Southbridge. It's only getting ~1.4V (450MHz FSB). Some responses earlier seem to say this is warm, while some others seem to say they are fine at ~60C, and a post linking to the Intel documents showed they were fine up to somewhere in the 90C range, and I think 85C if running at 1600MHz FSB. I find 85C and higher to be hard to believe, but the documents do state it. Mine didn't drop even after doing away with the stock cement and using thermal paste, so is it running too warm? Should I be concerned?