Well, looks like the recall rumors were right, after all.
http://vr-zone.com/articles/gigabyte...rds/14360.html

THIS is why you guys really need to chill on blaming the user so much. I noticed a lot of these boards going up in smoke recently, and NOT when pushed to 5.5 ghz, 1.7v on water cooling without a fan on the VRM's -.- Someone mentioned rumor of a recall a week ago, and turns out he was right all along....

Regardless of what you LN2 and H2o users claim, a PROPERLY designed board should NOT catch on fire if its run out of the case, at non extreme conditions, even without airflow from case fans. Yeah at extreme conditions, you need to cool everything. But some of these people were having VRM's burning right after turning on the computer...IN the case with fans...