Well folks, it's official, I am actually stricken with grief. This whole mess started with a faulty motherboard. I called EVGA and, as always, they came through in the clutch. My new motherboard is being crossed shipped to me and will arrive tomorrow. My problem is that since I will be adding new hardware, i.e. a motherboard, and a new set of bad@ss Corsair Dominator ram, and I am a perfectionist I have to zero out my disks and reinstall Windows. This being my first build is really special to me, more than I thought it would ever be. Spending countless hours researching parts, reading how-to's on overclocking, and then spending even more hours perfecting my system is truely a labor of love. With a messed up motherboard and a bad set of OCZ ram I scored 17,513, or something like that, on 3DMark06 so I'm really hoping that with this new, non faulty board and new athletic ram that I will break 18,000. I am typing this on my mac but it's just not the same: it's not as fast, cool looking, cool sounding or fun as my computer. I love technology and now, I love my computer!