Well some feedback from me on the 1203 bios.
I have been running it for a few days now (I think I made the change last Friday\Saturday) and the great thing is that I am now running 8gb of ram without apparent issue. Admittedly I needed to reduce the memory down to 1066 rather than 1333 but it's been stable ever since. I did have one issue where the memory timings didn't stay on reboot (it went back down to 1times rather than 2times in the bios) but since that initial error I haven't had a problem.
Temperature wise, the cpu is running a tad warm atm (42 - 44 at idle) but that's more to do with warm ambiant temps (muggy nights) and the fact that I hadn't run Precision to increase the 295's fan speed up from default to 65%.
Gaming has been smooth (no BSOD's) and over all usage of the pc hasn't resulted in anything unusual. I did this on a fresh install of Vista64 SP2 (for some reason Win7 was really syrupy.. very sluggish and unresponsive).
With regards to monitors, I use a BenQ FP241WS which is really very good, I purchased the Samsung 2233 120hz monitor and the Nvidia glasses, both of which lasted a week before I sold them on, I really missed 1920x1200 too much (and was actually getting a headache playing with 3d enabled).
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