max FSB with P5W DH ever achieved?

Ever? :p: Sounds like this board was in our hands for several months and 80% of us have tried it and can say now :D

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Originally Posted by Haltech

Umm let me correct you. Us, the overclockers are 5% of the business total. Intel, nor AMD have to make their processors overclocks well. They will sell them regardless in OEM systems, where, THAT is their cash cow. Asus, MSI, Biostar, etc all have 2 tiers of motherboards. OEM and end user enthusiast. Asus is the number 1 OEM board manf for MANY computer companies.. Thats where their cash comes from, NOT us.

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I didn't know we were that many :p:

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Originally Posted by Durzel

Playing Devils Advocate for a minute - the Asus board is rated to run at 266 FSB, anything over that is a bonus and is not guaranteed. Whilst I'm sure Asus probably would honour RMAs for boards returned for no other reason than "it doesn't overclock enough", it's not a World apart from buying a normal car and complaining when it doesn't go as fast as a Ferrari.

What we all get when we overclock - be it Intel chips or Asus motherboards, or anything else, is luck of the draw and nothing more. I must admit I find it odd when people start suggesting that Intels retail chips aren't that hot, people complaining about "only" being able to overclock by 1Ghz. Really, frankly, if it does the rated speed then Intel have met their product quality obligations in full.

Like I said, just playing Devils Advocate :)

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Well said :toast:

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Originally Posted by Haltech

Umm let me correct you. Us, the overclockers are 5% of the business total.

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Your point is well taken. And we can put an even finer point on it by understanding that overlockers account for far less than 5%. To think that Intel gives rat's ass about this segment is nonsense. Sure they wanted a CPU with overhead. Sure they wanted to make sure the "enthusaists" would like Conroe to help spearhead their resurgence into the desktop market.

But, please, lets get over the "disappointing" 1Ghz overclocks, and quit :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:ing about mobos that won't run 80% over spec. As usual, expectations have run amuck. Folks need to lay off whatever it is they are smoking and get back to reality. The fact that conroe comes out of the gate with any overhead at all is astounding.