Here's my A8N experience..
I had never had any problems with this board..
i have the rig that is in my sig, and its VERY stable with the 1004.001 bios on 265fsb * 10..
htt is 4, timings are 2.5 3 3 7 T2, 1:1, i can get stable to 268FSB, but 269 fails prime after 20 minutes.
never had any...