My replacement CPU will be arriving next week as the e-tailer which is handelling my RMA have informed me that they have a delivery of stock tomorrow and as soon as it is all booked in they will dispatch my replacement QX9650 cpu.
I just hope the temperatures are correct this time!
The problem I had was that even at load the temps were wrong, I admit the gulf between the 2 cores was narrowed from 21C to just 12C but even so that was a large variation...and it did cause stability problems.
Fingers crossed my replacement will be fine.
I'll let you know what the packdate is to etc.
John