GA-EP45-UD3P r1.6 baseline settings needed!

[Pegasus-12]

Hello one and all! I am new to these forums, as it's been years since I last owned a Gigabyte board. (I think it was a P3 board) Anyways, I have a question regarding the GA-EP45-UD3P mainboard, revision 1.6. There are literally pages of settings for this board in the BIOS, so I would like to tap into the collective knowlege here in order to find the settings that work the best for my equipment. I primarily want someone to "hold my hand" so to speak and inform me of the optimum settings to start with as a "baseline". Below is a list of the primary hardware components that I have installed;

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P r1.6 mainboard (BIOS v.FB)
Intel Q9650 Core-2-Quad, 3.0Ghz, E0 stepping (SLB8W) 45nm
OCZ DDR2-800 Gold Series memory (OCZ2G8008GQ)
XFX GTX260 (Core 216) video card
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality Platinum Champion Series
Corsair CWCH50 hydro series H50 CPU Water Cooler (dual-fan)
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb (2x RAID0)
Lian Li PC-V1000 Plus II case
Windows Vista Business Edition 64-bit (SP2)

Both the CPU waterblock and the surface of the CPU have been professionally "lapped", as well as all of the heatsinks on the mainboard. Arctic Silver thermal paste applied.

That being said, what, exactly, should all of my baseline settings be for memory, processor, etc.?
 

[oggmonster]

Well everything should work great with optimum defaults loaded so you don't really have to do anything. Though you may want to change SATA mode to AHCI. Other than that if you wanted to squeeze more performace out of it you would have to overclock. And with a setup like that it's almost a crime not to overclock 

[Pegasus-12]

The system would not POST when set to optimum default settings. I disabled all power saving features and initially set the memory timings to 5-5-5-10 in order to get past the POST problem. Overclock? What would be a good, stable (conservative) setting for this system?

[oggmonster]

Strange everything should work fine with defaults loaded. I would say 3.6ghz would be a conservative overclock, though 4ghz+ would be achievable if you so wished.

[Pegasus-12]

Strange everything should work fine with defaults loaded. I would say 3.6ghz would be a conservative overclock, though 4ghz+ would be achievable if you so wished.

Given the system specifications listed above, what settings should I use to achieve this?