Have you tried cgminer?
Nope, only the simple GUIMiner with the -v -w128 flag to make it faster.
Does this one do unofficial overclocking or something that would get around the bois limit possibly?
MSI Afterburner seems to be the best I've used with an MSI Motherboard, any other board I use AMD overdrive.
For benchmarking, I use PC Wizard, seems to be unbiased towards a certain brand.
yeah MSI afterburner seems to be exactly the same as EVGA precision which I've used for years on my old 9800gt. AMD overdrive is kinda yuk.
Set custom fan curve, right now its sitting at around 81c and 66% fan speed and silent.