"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[truehighroller]

Hmm seems to be working fine here, I had to take the heat sink off to read the chip markings, but ran prime95 small for a few hours okay

I have no idea how to read the chip. It says:

SLAWR MALAY
2.66 GHZ/12M/1333/05A
L8038553

You will have no issues on 0803 at all trust me that cpu margin enhancement thing is not coded in on the 0803 and earlier BIOSes there for the issue goes away. I just wanted to see what week chip you were working with. You have a 803 and mine is a 813 totaly different weeks I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something with the CPUs them selves but, it obviously isn't. I am going to be calling them today and telling them I found another person with the same issue as me. I will IM you the contact info if you want it or you can just stick with the 0803 it's up to you no biggie but, still I found you which is good news for me because I'm not the only one having this issue and I have actualy chatted with someone with the same issue now and that makes me feel alot better about the whole thing.

The issue is not,, popping up on dual cores so dude with the e8600 on the way you shuld be fine.