Fast Write off did help with my OC actually, however it decreased my benchmarks for some odd reason. Only one it helped in was Aquamark, which is the one i had been having the most bizarre stuff happening to.
Side panal is off, i'll grab a fan, but this is the coolest it's been in my office for months, so ambient is pretty nice at the moment.
I'm still waiting on an answer to that annoying Nvidia IDE RAID screen. Does everyone have this, and no one can get rid of it? Again, 1.36 BIOS, and it was on the default 1.1 that came with my board. I'm not sure if my issues with the gfx are motherboard, or card related. But my overclock was stable in my intel, which leads me to beleive maybe i'm missing something?