Wow, somebody jumped to my defence, that feels good.
And I've decided what I'm going to do. I'm going to give the 45nms one more chance and buy an E3110. By that time I'll have my P5K back and I know the ins and outs of that board so I'll be able to get the most out of the Xeon. If I get another dud, I'll be on the look out nice low VID Q6600 to tide me over until Deneb/Propus arrive becuase I really want to try my hand at OC'ing a Phenom. IDK why, but Intel CPUs are well, just all the same to OC and it's a bit boring. There seems to be a load more when it comes to OC'ing a Phenom and I'd like to see how I fair.