Just had a GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard draw an arc close by the 9850BE cpu. Happened to be sitting in front of the thing when it happened too. Don't know if it hurt the cpu as I don't have a spare m/b, or the P/S. A sad way to start off a day, was just sitting there sucking on my first diet coke of the day for my caffeine fix. So decision time now... buy another m/b and take a chance, or put the money into a gpu for another system instead. I rather think I'll just go the gpu route. I don't have any other stuff around here to check out the CPU to see if it's good. So much for my Phenom days....