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So even the system restore doesn't get rid of new drivers installed?

Background: A64 3500+ @ 2.7 OCZ 3200 Plat R2 @ DDR490 2 BFG 6800GT OC PCI-E When I first built the system I installed Nvidia drivers version 66.93. Everything seemed to run fine so I decided to try the 71.20 drivers and see what a difference it would make. With the 66.93 drivers...

What kind of power supply are you using? Did you have to do any special tweakings when overclocking the 6800s? Thanks

cownipples - What drivers are you running for your 6800s? Are they overclocked? My 3d05 score was ~8500.

I didn't have a problem running this board at stock speeds.

Well... I found a slight problem. I find that after a few hours of Prime95 the power to my CPU Fan will shut off (which is really really bad) and wont turn back on until I let the power supply cool down for a while. I was able to repeat this problem a few times. I'm guessing the Antec tru550...

Thanks a lot for the help, here were the final results for my overclock: 100% stable @ DDR490 with the 3500+ running at 2.7ghz (245 * 11).

I tried to read and understand as much as I can from this 26 page thread... but somewhere around page 14 my brain shut down. As like many people, I tried to manually set my RAM to DDR500 which resulted in everything else being set to 'Auto'. Currently my system is running DDR333 @ 2.5ghz...