tiro, did you investigate the possibillity of it being a bad psu or perhalps the case making contact with the board and shorting it? After you've killed your 2nd of anything, generally I drop it into a totally different environment and see if it works any better.

and yeah, 680i is a terribad chipset..

on that note i just got my EVGA 680i board back, anyone want it?

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