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    Question ASUS M4A87TD EVO on its way out?

    As stated in the title, my motherboard is having some serious problems which I think may be VRM related.
    My 955 BE's idle voltage is about 0.02v below the bios setting but if that wasn't bad enough, there is about an extra 0.05v of vdroop when heavy load is applied. The result is that my processor that used to do 3.6Ghz at 1.35v in the bios now needs 1.425v to remain stable. The vdroop also affects my CPU-NB, so I have to drop the speed to 2.6Ghz. I also can't enable LLC without getting some really bad instability(prime95 gets errors on startup). I have already talked to ASUS's terrible customer support and gotten an RMA request number, but I'd like a second opinion before sending my motherboard out for ~10 days.
    AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE C3 4.0Ghz @ 1.5375(VID)/1.5v idle/1.45v load | ASUS M4A87TD EVO 1102 | G.Skill ECO CL7 1600Mhz | Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB | OCZ ModXstream 600W | WD Caviar Green 500GB

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    I would run everything at stock and see if the problems persist.
    Cool and quiet and plug and play OS should be disabled and/or setting the ram and nb/ht to stock may help. ram - 1333mhz nb/ht 2000mhz

    gl..

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    This board is just full of weird, nasty quirks. Manually setting LLC somehow causes instability but leaving it on auto and applying +0.0125v offset will enable LLC without any instability. Somehow I don't think this will be the end of my issues with this board, but I'll run full LinX and Prime tests to make sure it's stable when I have the time.
    AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE C3 4.0Ghz @ 1.5375(VID)/1.5v idle/1.45v load | ASUS M4A87TD EVO 1102 | G.Skill ECO CL7 1600Mhz | Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB | OCZ ModXstream 600W | WD Caviar Green 500GB

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    Some mobo/cpu combos are picky about the ram. Also running the ram @1600mhz may be killing your memory controller.

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    I spoke too soon. On cold boot, all of the issues that I had before come up. It looks like I'll be RMAing this board after all.
    AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE C3 4.0Ghz @ 1.5375(VID)/1.5v idle/1.45v load | ASUS M4A87TD EVO 1102 | G.Skill ECO CL7 1600Mhz | Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB | OCZ ModXstream 600W | WD Caviar Green 500GB

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