well i did some more tweaking and had some interesting results.
i read in shamaino's old i7 overclocking thread that you can "improve" your vantage scores by playing with the IOH voltages
sadly this did not work for me, results:
specs: 3way SLI 800core/900mem GTX 470
4.3ghz 980x
stock IOH (1.1v)
P40029
GPU 41057 CPU 37230
IOH 1.2v
P39919
GPU 40905 CPU 37227
IOH 1.3 QPI PLL 1.15 (stock 1.1)
P39798
GPU 40754 CPU 37183
may need some more tweaking, also my clock may not be high enough to have to worry about those voltages
anyway i just thought i would share