Hi DrTeal
Yeah Alien Grey rocks the socks off. He posts a lot of useful information, not only on here, but on the ASUS forums too.
Alien Grey, you Rock

I think the test Alien was talking about was the BIOS BITS tool (A BIOS Implementation Test Suite released by intel to test the BIOS for any faults or programming inconsistencies).
You can download BITS here

Particular interest is the MSR test suite and the SMI Latency test.

We have found so far that us with Quad Core 45nm CPU's have 5 fails, those with Dual Core 45nm CPU's have 4 fails. I am curious (and I think Alien is too), to see if a 65nm fairs better, if so it may suggest that ASUS have been quite lazy with their BIOS programming and have not specifically programmed their BIOS for the 45nm CPU's, they have simply patched compatibility, but not gracefully.

John