Wishing you well with your recovery at the Centers. Its a hell of a thing to go through, but as others have said, you have a great attitude.

I run a quad with the Blood Iron, but can't run it all thatstrong. I run at 350x9 ( 3150). The board is definitely liniting me. I second the thoughts on the MSI and the Abit. I see you got an Abit, you may need to get some better cooling on the PWM area, that sucker runs hot! It may even be why it was returned. Others have dealt with it. I'm still gathering info and ideas on it. I have an IP35_E and I had to shut it down and turn some things down, for now. That helped some but the sucker is still hotter than hell.

Get well, loonym! We are all pulling for you.

Scott