I want a totally stable cpu first.
so I'll see if at 1.7 volts, and 2.6 vdimm it is stable at 15*200.
then I can still check out highest ramspeed and find the mean for both.
and then check if it's worth te difference :)

With so much attention, caring, inputs and love from so many people, you are not telling us what went wrong and what went right afterward?

Give us something - PSU, Memory, Board or age.:D

I broke the crapper down and put him back up in another room.
first without the vapo : no probs, then with the vapo : no probs.
I have to say the lan onbaord has been disabled! coz the room where it is placed is internetless.

so probably the lan was the cause for all this mischief.

psu will be tested thoroughly soon enough when it has to get the pump and the pelt too :)

calantak, i just bought the same mobo for socket 754.
I'm still waiting for my case/power supply so I can't start yet.
I was wondering how i could configure the bios : I have 1 Maxtor SATA 120GB that I want to connect to the nvidia sata controller.
My guess is :
* disable Serial-ATA2 (silicon ?)
* Onboard Serial ATA : enabled
* Serial ATA Funtion : BASE
* Onboard Giga-RAID : disabled

and then set the first boot device to SATA HD

Would this be correct ?

and then install nVidia SATA driver during OS install

i've sent it to gigabyte, this was their reply :

Dear Sir:
No, Please set in the BIOS as follow:
Serial-ATA 2 (Internal PHY)==> Enabled ( onboard NVIDIA nForce3 chipset)
Onboard Serial ATA ==> Disabled
Onboard Giga-RAID ==> Disabled

Thank you.

Best Regards