@ Dave

I will d/l the application on the weekend and do a few hours worth of crunching - one thing I need to do is to vid-mod the cpus, and push fsb to 400 - this will then have the ram running at native speed, and cpus at 3.20 gig vs stock 2.66.

I might push vid up to safe watercooling levels, and see if I can get 3.5-3.6, hopefully the FB-Dimms will keep up - as you know, these SM boards are super-stable, but not a single OC setting in the BIOS....so we have to revert to dirty tactics, hehe. I still owe you big time for sending me this board, Dave :flowers:

But, all truth be told, this is a great board, Dave, yes, even for a 2-yr old system - it plays every title I can throw at it, and the 5970 drives the 30" Dell just wonderfully. Overkill for my racing sim though, but hey, it's fun