A-Grey - Wow that totally sucks man, it must be so disappointing (there is nothing worse than anticipating new hardware only to have it be the wrong part or completely different than what you thought it would be)! Its very rare that I've had any major issues with eVGA hardware and certainly nothing like your experiencing. Thankfully they have amazing customer service so at the very least the RMA procedure should go smoothly and quickly (then again you may be RMA'ing with the retailer you bought the stuff from instead of eVGA directly)? I'll be looking forward to pictures of this monstrosity, lol!

Earzz - If you get a chance could you post a screen-shot of Everest with the "Motherboard/Chipset" page open (this page will show a more detailed list of your RAM/NB settings)? In your earlier post above you mentioned that you tried increasing your CPU, FSB Vtt, and NB voltages after increasing your FSB but that it didn't help. I'm not sure how much you increased those voltages but on my board I needed more NB voltage than A-Grey did to get my system stable at 450Mhz x 9.0x (I needed to set the NB BIOS voltage to 1.55v where A-Grey needed far less)? Then again he has probably tuned his system better (or simply has a better chip than me) than I have and therefore needs less voltage to be stable at a given overclock (finesse over just cranking the voltages up until things get stable), lol!