"Widely known" what are you on about? I'm running i7 970, with a RevoDrive X2 240gb, with GTX 580 SLI, with Dominator GT 3x2gb 2000C8 and it's 24/7 stable as a rock. I'm thinking you have a bum board. I'm running 1102 bios.

Don't try to make YOUR issues seem like the norm.