Quote Originally Posted by Solarfall View Post
why not set the fan speeds straight from bios ? thats what i do
I want the fan speeds to scale with temps, silly. And smart fan ... well, I'll give it a chance. I have some of my fans connected to a fan controller, but it only has three ports. I've got a couple of the ports split to run two fans, so that stretches its usability a little bit, but I don't want to start the thing on fire.

By the way, all the numbers I've gotten so far, and overclocking I've done, has accidentally ben with vdroop enabled!!! I read it wrong. Without vdroop control I was still able to climb all the way down to 1.38v and stay at 4.0GHz with turbo enabled on air, with OUTSTANDING temps!! I can't believe how utterly uber awesome super holy crap wow this motherboard is. I've NEVER had a better overclocking experience or better results.

And just FYI, I was able to hit a stable 4.35GHz max overclock once I enabled the vdroop prevention, and overvoltage was never more than .05v. This rig is sick. Now I'm back down to 1.38v for 4.0GHz with my memory close to the rated 1600MHz. I got the memory down to 1T clocks - didn't really notice a difference from 2T. I haven't ran Vantage yet, but 3DMark06 on this thing with the video card at a mere 10% overclock hits 25,601!!! Everything is still on air. I couldn't be happier with that performance, and I haven't even started liquid cooling anything yet.

Thanks to everyone for the examples, advice, and support for overclocking the CRAP out of my i7. If anyone is considering this board, BUY IT. With the latest official BIOS it's just indescribably good.