now are you testing with 3D or 32M? i find 3D to go much higher than 32M with this board. could be because of my memory at 1100MHz as i think the G.Skills are finally showing their days after been beaten for so long. i am still going to try chilled water on the NB because i think even taking temps down to ambient helped a little unless i can get a NB pot relatively quickly. running with just that water block base required a pour every 10 seconds or less. 3D was do-able but wouldn't be with the CPU under LN2 as well. temps were relatively easy to control though, might just make a put out of the base with some copper pipe