Quote Originally Posted by VonZippa View Post
I've got a 2600K with the Extreme4 board and I seem to be having some issues that are similar to what I'm hearing other people say here.
Having read all of this thread I cannot see what 'these' issues are. Many people (myself included) are happily running decent overclocks without issue - call us lucky winners in the CPU lottery if you like. If you don't believe me (or others here) - then go read Anandtech's review of the Ex4. They got along together just fine. And I am sure they did a much better job of putting the board and a CPU through its paces. But even they stopped at 4.8 (and I am sure they have more technical know how than most).

Yes - some people may need to RMA a board. It happens.

Not being able to get stable at some pre-defined idea of 'decent' overclock at whatever cost (including trashing your gear) is 'by the by'.

No CPU has a god given right to hit 4.6 / 4.8 or 5.0Mhz+. Its becoming plain to me that 4.5 and beyond is where most chips start to hit issues. Hell if they could all do 4.0Mhz even - don't you think Intel would market them as such?

All chips are different - and as has been proved many, many times over it's not the boards that are holding you back its the specific CPU. That why people will BIN them and charge extra to play.