Quote Originally Posted by ziddey View Post
Either board is deteriorating or 703 bios is weak. I was getting random program crashes at my overclock, so I pulled out the priming again, and sure enough, it fails.
I just put the new bios on my board, but only had time for memtest (24 passes on test 5 before I turned it off) and memtest for windows (up to 1000% error free). Haven't had a chance to prime yet, so I'll do that when I get home. So far it's a lot better for me than 613 was.

Also I picked up a second one of these boards with a higher serial number than my first one and it doesn't run nearly as well. NB gets VERY hot even with low voltage and as such I can't get higher than about 450FSB on a E6300 (not the same one as my 100% overclock but it should be able to do 500FSB) and another set of 2GB Patriot RAM that I had already tested at DDR2-1000+

This seems to be consistent with what people are saying where newer boards aren't clocking as well. Well, except for the whine, which I haven't noticed on either board.