PRSF

cool thanks a lot for the response grimx, I was doing some reading before checking here tonight and I thought 400 mhz x 8.5 would give 3400 mhz, is there a problem with running 400 as the fsb opposed to keeping it lower such as 358 etc as you mentioned, is it better to have a lower fsb and a higher multiplier?

also is 9.5 about as high as you would suggest with this board? I haven't touched the heatsinks on the board, upgraded their paste etc. I'm not really interested in pushing this board to it's limits, I enjoy reading about others but don't have a reason too, might shoot for 3.8 ghz at one point but would just like to learn about this.

so when I change my cpu clock my RAM might not be able to run at 1066 any longer, you are saying to select the option which is closet to it's previous setting?

also at how much of an overclock would I need to start worrying about manually setting voltages etc and what is the formula for doing so.

thanks, really appreciate the response, will download the programs and give it a try