Sell Rampage Formula and get P5Q?

[Ender17]

I just got a Rampage Formula, but now I see the P5Q is out with ICH10R and 16 phase power, and a eSATA port, so I'm thinking of switching.

Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks

[Nasgul]

Do it!

Get something old school.........."rampage formula"? WTC is that?

Deluxe or Premium.

[philbrown23]

yeah who ever heard of the rampage formula anyway! p5q dlx wifi ftw!

[xTKxhom3r]

yea bro p5q is the best thing out there right now

[Ender17]

sweet, just ordered a P5Q Deluxe
wish I had thought of this yesterday

[xTKxhom3r]

lol unless you ordered before 5 your not getting it until next week haha

[003]

I just got a Rampage Formula, but now I see the P5Q is out with ICH10R and 16 phase power, and a eSATA port, so I'm thinking of switching.

Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks

16 phase power won't make a lick of difference... It's a good board, however, keep in consideration that only X48 has dual PCIe 2.0 x16 lanes for crossfire, P45 has dual x8 lanes (2.0), and P35 has one x16 and one x4 lane (1.0).

[Leeghoofd]

16 phase power won't make a lick of difference... It's a good board, however, keep in consideration that only X48 has dual PCIe 2.0 x16 lanes for crossfire, P45 has dual x8 lanes (2.0), and P35 has one x16 and one x4 lane (1.0).

I must say that I have never ever had such stable voltages (with or without loadline calibration) on my quad... plus I can run both the wolfdales and quads at a lower voltage then before (P35/X38/48)... difference in voltage is not much (0.01-0.02) but nice to show off in screenies :) and with the loadline calibration feature 1.25 is 1.25 under load... it sure matters, hope that every mobo ever released will have 16 Phase power...

[003]

No it doesn't make a difference. What makes a difference is the implementation of the VRMs. Without LLC, voltage is never stable due to Vdroop, which is an official part of the intel spec. With LLC, the voltage can actually slightly increase under load (although by a much smaller amount than it drops with Vdroop), but this is unrelated to the VRMs, it is related to the implementation of LLC.

[Ender17]

16 phase power won't make a lick of difference... It's a good board, however, keep in consideration that only X48 has dual PCIe 2.0 x16 lanes for crossfire, P45 has dual x8 lanes (2.0), and P35 has one x16 and one x4 lane (1.0).
thanks for pointing that out
I meant to say in my original post that I will only be using a single graphics card and maybe a RAID card, so it's not an issue for me

[Leeghoofd]

No it doesn't make a difference. What makes a difference is the implementation of the VRMs. Without LLC, voltage is never stable due to Vdroop, which is an official part of the intel spec. With LLC, the voltage can actually slightly increase under load (although by a much smaller amount than it drops with Vdroop), but this is unrelated to the VRMs, it is related to the implementation of LLC.

Whatever your theory maybe (I'm not an engineer), Myself and many others have noticed that the volts remain way more stable on the P5Q Dlx...and most users get same clocks with lower volts (with or without LLC) 16phase or not, something seems to help...

[RealTelstar]

Ender, only if you have a quad. You could increse the fsb with the p5q. Otherwise, keep your rampage. X-treme tweakers may not like it much because it doesnt need a lot of trial and error ;) But it's a very good board.