MSI x975 Overclocking issues

I have the x975 board and a 6400 conroe.  I have been trying unsucessfully to reach a stable overclock of at least 400fsb (3.2ghz).  I will list my system so that somebody hopefully can help:
MSI x975 Power up Ediition
Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 2.13ghz
OCZ OCZ2P8002GK 4-5-4-15 2x1gb DDR2 800
2 Seagate 7200.10 250gb in RAID 0 (intel matrix controller)
EVGA 7900GT
NEC DVDRW on the Second IDE port
LITEON CDRW and Seagate 250gb hard drive on the first IDE port
I have a Thermaltake bigwater system cooling the processor and the northbridge, so heat isn't an issue.  This is all in the awesome gigabyte case that is built for water cooling.  So I have tried all the different combinations of setting that I have read in this forum and the extreme systems forum.  The highest stable overclock I have been able to achieve is 350fsb (2.8ghz).  That is with c2e1 disabled, spread spectrum disabled, auto detect pci clock disabled, CPU voltage is at the default level (it doesn't seem to matter how high I take it even up to 1.5v doesn't help stability), RAM is at 2.2v which is the recommended voltage (I've had it up to 2.3v no better stability), PCIE voltage is defualt (have increased it, make the northbridge so hot it would burn you before I watercooled it), PCIE 100mhz (I've tried 110 like everybody said, didn't help).  I am using the onboard audio, somebody said to disable it, I will if it really makes a difference but I'm skeptical.  Does anybody have any idea why I can't get any higher stable overclock?  I mean the board will post at 400fsb, 410, but blue screen when its time to load windows.  It really seems like to me its something to do with the SATA bus, like its really stressed.  Any help will be appreaciated.

I really am not worried about the latency of the ram, as we all know the conroe doesn't really care.  What I have found out is the the OCZ DDR800 isn't really compatible with our boards, but the OCZ DDR667 EL is.  I believe the difference is the lower latency, the northbridge wants RAM that is capable of lower latency whether you run it at its recommended latency.  I believe if we had an option for command rate 1t or 2t, then alot of our problems would be solved.  I ordered the g.skill HZ 4-4-4-12 memory, so we will see if my theory holds true.  I just don't want to hold my system back because it is throughing a fit over my RAM type.  Since we don't have a multiplier less than 1:1 we can't lock our memory at a lower speed to test the FSB threshhold of our board and CPU.  Damn board is doing the cold boot only thing to me as well as others, hope the next bios revision helps, otherwise I might have to go over to the darkside gigabyte or asus.

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