I've had 2 45nm e8400 processors, and they are great... They use the latest technology, they run a hell of alot cooler, and thus are really easy to overclock.

The bad thing is, that I ended up going through 4 motherboards before I realized that out of the box, none of them support 45nm like they are supposed to. You have to flash the bios before the system will even POST. This means you have to have another 775 slot processor laying around just so that you can update the bios to support the 45nm chip.

Just felt like venting... because I've built alot of PCs lately, and this has been a major annoyance.

I'm using E8400, and my MB is 790i

I have no idea what you just said.

thought I'd share.

sorry.

That is the most asinine thing I've ever heard.