Coming from an MSI P35 Neo2-FR, I find my new gigabyte board to be a bit ockward in overclocking.

Going in small incriments, things would seem fine but once I hit over 3.5ghz, stability isn't the issue..it's FPS.

At stock cpu settings with my 9800gx2, frames are in the 250 range.

but once i start overclocking past 3.5ghz, if i don't hit a sweet spot with the volts, frames stay in the 30-50 zone.

Once I hit a sweet spot, and frames seem normal, instability kicks in and either my game crashes or my comp restarts.

The one thing i've noticed that's very different between the msi and GA board is that the MSI board does two cold restarts before booting into post/windows before applying the OC.

GA does not. if you don't touch the FSB frequency, it doesn't even cold restart once, it'll just apply the volts and boot into windows.

So what i did, is I copied the physical nature of the Neo, and after applying an OC with my GA board, i would manually give it two cold restarts.

Voilla! the FPS issue is gone! now it's just a matter of stability, and getting back up to 4.3ghz since right now i'm at 4ghz, but now that I don't have the FPS drop issue i'm okay for now..

Anyone else have this kind of experience with GA boards?