thanks im well ahead of u on that
i was having trouble finding my ht settings on my gigabyte mobo but in anothe rforum i was sent to a link of a pic of the bios and boom it says press controll f1 and wam im in the advanced chipset screen
that was my real hold back (that and ram settings )
but now i have reached a descent clock
im running
1.37 volts
262 fsb
ram set to 400 mhz(id like to run it higher but it wont boot at 533 (cpuz is reading my ram at 250 mhz

id like to be higher but im still benchmarking verry well)
i have my ht set to 4x
so i have a pretty healthy 2.75 ghz cpu now when i started with a weak 2.1 ghz cpu
add that to my 2 oc'ed 8600gt's in sli (oc from 540/700 to 644/856 )
id say my pc is pretty well set to do just about anything a can throw at it (let me know if im wrong lol )
i ran pcpittest on it and im womping all other cpus with simular mhz in the m.i.p.s department but again my ram is suffering
my pit test
http://www.pcpitstop.com/techexpress...P4SWQ38LVSYDUV
im running a good(or at least i think so correct me if im wrong)35-37 c on full prime95 load after 30 min with no errors (i had went to 264 fsb but got an error on one core aboput 7 mins into the test)
here is mu cpuz dump
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=284434
and a final ? is the heat issue a direct result of upping the voltage of does the actual oc affect temps also (im wondering because im on the limits of my temps) but i could still boost my voltage to 1.4 as long as upping the fsb wont affect he tems and its just the voltage