sad thing is i have moved to a gigabyte aurora...and i have a opty 170 arriving today.
while playing with this cpu i managed to chip the core in a few places, and smash one of the SMD's on the cpu, as well as scorch another. But now i'm running 1.625 for 3.1ghz on air.
coldbug is bitting me back...have to drop HTT as the cpu gets cooler.