chew, I think the problem is that the vapo isn't quite cold enough. 4.42ghz would not have booted at all with 1.6v and run anything with 4 cores enabled. Drop to 2 cores so its colder and I got a 32m run and a 3dmark01 run, and that's still with my nb above 3ghz. I bumped up to 1.65v so I could do some stuff at 4.5ghz. Seeing if I can break SoF's 32m time possibly... only 30 more seconds and that's without me shutting down any services in Windows 7.