I'm using this stock fan that I bought separately from my 555 be. Not bad so far.

i'm using the same mobo too. So far so good. you should try prime it for stability. I leave it from morning to afternoon. nice.

3.5ghz. Stock cooler. But in the que to get the 3rd party.

I haven't touch ram yet. haha. After I unlocked the X2 555 just test the stability and up the core for fun.

I'm suck at oc ram. Mine is OCZ gold edtion 2gb. How to overclock?

I'm not so sure too, I just simply use Speedfan, it give me 3 temp, first is the only one that are valid i think, the 2nd I believe is the temp of the motherboard, while the third is utterly shait.

RIght now I'm clocking my x2 555 BE *unlock* at 3.4ghz with vcore at 1.35v. According to speedfan the temp is at 49C', is that ok or not? Btw during idle, my vcore shown by cpu-z,speedfan, and probe is right which is 1.35v. But when i stressed it with prime, it is shown 1.28~1.3 period. Why its like that?