EVA...Looking at your settings I don't know what 'VID' is although it's referenced in giga boards also. Explain? After 5 weeks or so with my giga x58-ud5, seems it's pretty straightforward to get max OC. Just increase Vcore and Vtt and get higher CPU clk up to the limit of the chip. Is it pretty much the same with the DFI board, I'm asking cause a lot of your settings don't exist on the giga board, so I have no idea if they are critical or not. I want to leverage your superb efforts as much as possible so I can get to max CPU clk as quickly as possible when I get my DFI on Tuesday. Finally, did you obtain your CPUs in Australia?