rofl i borrowed an 980X ES from a reviewer around two months back, he was begging me not to degrade/kill it as he needed it for a review... I pushed it on straight water pretty hard over 4.5Ghz and 1.52V for torture/stabilty and 3D beching, but when i tried benching with only one or two cores enabled, my P6T DLX V1 wouldn't boot for requiring a CMOS clear everytime and keep in mind it was the first time i was forced to manually clear the CMOS ever, i even thought i killed the mobo and/or the CPU. hehe.