Well I actually got some good news, I was finally able to increase FSB speed beyond 1333Mhz (finally)! I'm not exactly sure what the problem was but I started using odd numbers with the FSB instead of even numbers. For example I was initially trying FSB speeds like 1400Mhz, 1500Mhz, and 1600Mhz with no luck what-so-ever. For some reason I decided to try a FSB speed of 1605Mhz and bingo, everything is working perfectly! I can use unlocked or locked & synced and they both work fine now! I haven't had time to do any stability testing but I'm going to fire up Orthos (Blend or Large-FFT's) overnight (fingers crossed)! At the moment I'm only using my E8400 but once I get this chip stable at a few decent settings I'll install my QX9770 and really start to push it!

Up until a just a few hours ago I was very disappointed and was seriously considering the sale of this board (at a huge loss I'm sure cause nobody wants this board with all the bad results going around). Like a few others here I was sure I wanted to pick up a newer DDR3 X48 motherboard but given this small victory I just had I'm going to stick with it a bit longer, now I'm actually hopeful! Heck I'm even optimistic, sooner or later this stuff will get worked out (either through some BIOS updates or a hardware revision). Then again maybe not but if that is the case there will be many pi**ed off customers, lol! After reading this last page of posts it doesn't look like many people will be posting here anymore, lol!