Great and powerful, but needs to be stablized

This processor is a powerhouse of a product. For the money you pay you get some serious power, and that's simply at the baseline. There are some issues however, be aware that the power requirement of this CPU is 220W, and that the sheer speed of the processor can cause it's instability. If you are finding that your computer is locking up when running the CPU at a high load, try the following before returning. The best solution is to disable the C1 and C6 states on your CPU from the BIOS. The should be enough to fix this issue. If not, disable Cool and Quite mode in your BIOS. If that still doesn't work, you may need to underclock the processor. Set the multiplier to 20. If that doesn't work, take it out and return it. Hope this helps. It did for me, but I only needed to switch C1 and C6 off. :-)