Some background history of my QX9650...

Brought it last year when it was first avaliable in the UK, and it's been in a Striker II Extreme, Maximus Extreme, Maximus Formula, BlockOps, EVGA 790i, and now finally in the Rampage Extreme.

The highest FSB I was able to get in these motherboards:
Maximus Extreme - 458
Maximus Formula - 456
BlackOps - 440
EVGA 790i - 425
Striker II Extreme - no idea, system file corrupted whenever overclocked

Now I thought the pinnicle of my 9650's FSB should be around 460, which I thought was OK ish.

Then came the Rampage Extreme.

As per my previous post, RE handled 450FSB without problem.
Then I tried stright to 470Mhz for laughs:



Hmm intresting I thought.

then 480Mhz



pretty much sums up what I had in mind.

But what the hell, might as well try 490Mhz....



And all voltage are within safe limits for watercooling, maybe even on air, and I hadn't even touched the skew and GTL settings etc

I can confidently say, even at this early point that it has to be the best motherboard I have ever used (all my mobos in sig), in it's ease of overclocking, cooling, and stability. Well done ASUS!!

More results to follow!