Update 8.24.17- so last night gigabyte came out with a new bios, f23b. It's supposed to fix hyperthreading errors. After my last post, there was a few weeks of great operation and a few weeks of terrible crashes, back to the initial problem of instant reboots under video encoding load. After updating the bios and tweaking the HWPEnable values, I think I'm finally at a stable overclock of 4.6 with an xmp1 profile on my 2666 DDR 4, but so far, the successes I've had haven't lasted very long. The thing that gets me is how low the power consumption is at idle(.87w), even though x86PlatformPlugin and shim aren't loading. Should I worry about that, or is the HWPEnable method sufficient for power managment? Also, what would cause the x86PlatformPlugin and shim to refuse to load(and cause KP's with the correct loading directory)? This has been driving me insane, and spoiling what would otherwise be success.