Absolutely. I am just making a full install of my basic rig, which includes FS9, Giga, Tiger Woods 2004, and the usual cadre of digital photo software etc. I'm doing that on the cheetah 73GB right now. After this is done, a nice clean copy with all my fav utilities, Office suite, latest upgrades, etc, THEN I have to make the decision on dual booting on a raid 0, or just on separate physical drives. It seems there are pitfalls to doing it on raid 0, but haven't read anything conclusive on that either. In any case when this install is entirely done, YES, thank you I will back the whole sucker up. Hey Hey, check it out!http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/184005.jpgAnd check out the cooling solution:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/184006.jpgThis was of course at idle, but under load it was staying in the 34 to 38 range, which is awesome by my old northwood stats.

OK cool runner, bump the multiplier. I'd go straight for a 14. It'll boot, at least. What ya using to load it with? Here's an Asus trick. If it doesn't, you may have to remove 3 sticks of ram to reset the bios. Completely UnPlug the box. Leave one stick in (the most buried one, under the drives) and reboot. The reset screen will pop up. Enter the bios and reset as required. F10 out (Save). Let it come all the way up. Shut down. Reinstall the ram. Try again. (ahhh . . . no need to RMA the board - I need a subscript font for that confession. I guess my secret's safe here).

I can't believe it went to 4.0 let alone higher. This thing's a cool operata! Sam I don't want to push my luck. The thing goes to 3.6 on stock voltage of 1.19 at idle. I actually went straight to 1.325 after reading Anand's article and just went to 4 and voila. I didnt run prime yet tho so we'll see. Very promising tho to go to 3.6 on stock vCore. If I could rely on 4.0 I'm more than happy as you can imagine, well from where I was, this is a very nice boost. Man I'm seeing some pretty awesome perf in FS9 with this dude. Doesn't flinch now at anything, in any aircraft. And THAT was actually just at 3.0GHz. Sam is there anything to assigning cores in FS9? I guess maybe to 3rd party utilities like FDC which I use, but now have to reinstall. Oy!Thanks again it's great to have someone who's up on this stuff. Really I mean I hadn't done a major rebuild for 5 years.