Just to let you know that, I get hard locks when I run Age of Conan windowed mode and Firefox together in Vista64. Only happens with AoC. No other games...well the only other game I have installed, GRID does not exhibit this kind of behaviour
This is with a 295, q9650@3.8GHz, 4GB mem and 850...
Forget 298 dude, they don't stock on the latest and greatest...the best bargains are at Sham Shui Po...Mong Kok is a bit more expensive except for Jumbo, they do pretty good deals.
There is another computer mall in Wan Chai, near Southern Playgrounds
I have nearly the same setup as you, Maximus motherboard, Q6600 (G0), CPU and NB loop with the swiftech radiator, d-tek fuzion CPU block but with mirco res and yate loon fans from petra's tech shop.
My temperatures are pretty high too for 3.2 GHz, 51-55 degrees (real temp reports) when...
In Hong Kong you can now pre-order the Q9450 for USD$450 vs. readily available Q6600 for USD$270.
So I wonder, what would the better buy knowing I have a watercooling setup ready with D-tek fuzion waterblock and MCR-220 rad with 655 pump ready to overclock to as close as possible to 4GHz (well...