hehe I wouldn't call that a 'problem' clon, It's a CPU arch stretched beyond it's limits. I haven't seen a signle chip do 3.4 on stock volts so don't fret.

These chips are amazing for a K8 so just be content with that.

It hit home how far these things have somehow managed to come as far as clocks go when I started OCing an E6750 on the weekend as part of a competition. It fell over at 3.35gig and 1.35v and i felt a sense of "oh crap, i've got a bad chip/batch, just what i need" Then realised, no it's actually quite normal, but just 6mths ago it was a case of Core 2 scaling much further on stock volts than ANY K8 I was subconciously expecting some miracle frequency before it fell over.. it kind of made me realise that if it wern't for the fact K8 is a slug in comparion clock/clock they would be really quite attractive

The key difference here though is that core 2 scales with voltage beyonf that point like a dream, whereas the old SOI just won't.