Quote Originally Posted by Zucker2k View Post

@origin_Unknown: The fact that your psu blew is all the evidence you need that your board was not getting the power it needed. Of course, a faulty psu is the best component killer.

its hard to pin it down to that since ive been running the e6600 with that psu for along time with more volts than i was using with the e8500.

im going to rma the psu and see what happens from there