Sorry I haven't been able to update this thread today, I've been a bit busy. Here's the deal in regards to the B1 vs. BA fiasco:

B1 is the silicon upon which ALL current Barcelona's are built and BA is a REVISION of the B1 silicon. So in essance, both sides were correct in their claims. To put it in more familiar terms for those who've had experience with the last generation of AMD's - consider BA a revision of the core/imc just like "BC", "BH", "BN", etc. with the FX57's. When AMD starts ramping up core speeds, we will then see the next generation of silicon -> B2.

Oh, and it seems as if I got a broken cpu. There's a identical system running in the lab and both procs properly boot @ 2g. I'm now waiting for a replacement chip - and possibly a few others - to arrive, hopefully, in the next few days....this sux. I'll see if there's any way to get this thing to run properly, but don't hold your breath :p