Thanks for the reassurance !
I dont plan on overclocking my cpu until I need to. So far, this system runs all games very well, and I dont think overclocking it at this point will show much noticeable improvement in gaming.
Once Skyrim and Battlefield 3 come out, we'll see.At the time the store that ran the diagnosis on my computer, had JUST received only 2 motherboards that had the new "B3 stepping" . I was so pissed off at MSI, I bought the Gigabyte board right then and had it installed.
I just got my computer back today in fact, and I'll play around with the BIOS settings and see how stable this board is.
I might decide to flash the BIOS, not sure yet.