I tried for 2 days to get my Blackops to Post at a CPU FSB higher than 177 and No Joy. Does this board, for some reason only Post at 50-66% of the speed selected in BIOS?

But then with any load placed on the CPU it would never increase to 266 or 333 or whatever I set the OCd FSB to in BIOS. I tried 3 different CPUs (Q6600, Q6700 and a E8400) with every Bios (P01. P02, P03, G17-G22) and no Go.

My E8400 got a 3DMark06 score of 1185. Oh well I sent it back for a refund. But I really want a Top Tier X48 DDR3 Mobo to run those HD4870s coming out.

Should I try one more, just in case I received a dud on my initial purchase.

AL