This was found on ABIT USA forum:
"its your problem if you did not know that there is two types of AM2 sockets
[ socket AM2 & socket AM2 940 ]
if you dont put the cpu in properly it will over heat two of the pins on the bottem of the cpu are used for the core's heat sink
i bort a AM2 6 Ghz 64 bit X2 with 2 Ghz of cach on a gigabyte motherboard with a 2 Ghz FSB and i love it."
Either that guy is smokin somethin or he can buy an AMD CPU that no one else can.
Wow, where can I buy a 6GHz X2???
Anyone????
All I have is an X2 5200+ overclocked to 2.8GHz.