I'm sure you'll get some good help from the gurus here, but I'd also suggest posting here. There are alot of super huge msi geeks running around and have very specific knowledge on the msi line. http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=hjd15idksflu71m9s26rb37o34&board=54.0

I've checked through alot of the posts, not too many people with 2600k that shows they're settings. However when I for example run prime or ibt my multiplier bounces alot, I changed some settings: Disable Overspeed protections Set long duration power limit to 200 Long duration maintianed: 128 seconds Short Duration: 250 Vdroop offset control 75% And when I ran ibt now it bounces from multiplier 34x to 45x and my vcore is 1.328 I haven't gotten any bsod with either of the settings, do I have to change anything if everything works on auto with default power settings as well? Or do I need to change them to 250 / 128 / 255? Or is that only if I need more volts? And the vid voltage in hwmonitor, is that accurate or should I just ignore that? It seems to go rather high while testing.. Hopefully I get some answers.

I got some weird issues as well that I can't seem to find a solution, during stress tests it seems like the cpu sometimes throttles down to 3.4 ghz from 4.5 ghz for a couple of seconds? And i've checked the bios if there's any temp protection on, but I can't seem to find anything. I've also tried to up the volt doesn't seem to do the trick, anyone know what I can try?

You have to turn off all power saving features in bios.

It still happend, i've gone back to my old mobo, can't believe my 2year old mobo is better and more stable.