Looks like AMD has got itself into a real quality, reliability and Public Relations pickle:
How many people have been receiving dead AMD processors? Email from Freddy:
I work for a local computer company and these past 3 months have produced the most dead AMD processors I have ever seen. They are cosmetically clean but fail to boot and beep the proper codes. This isn't just from one source - we have changed vendors many times due to them not wanting to replace unworking CPU's.
Good question! If you have some skinny on this, please email Joe.