Interesting SSD tests. It looks like your MB handles HT alright Dave. How well does your MB take changes in the bios? This MSI doesn’t like too many changes at one time because if I change say HT and NB bios settings it may not reboot. Where as if I just change the HT bios setting then reboot then reenter the bios and change the NB speed it reboots the next time just fine.

I ran a few tests with the NB @3000+/- today but I used the 32-bit OS. I didn’t need that much vcore I just forgot to lower it when I changed the bios settings.