ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[cstkl1]

Dude, that is not true. That FUD news was squashed by INTEL before it even became news; FUD apparently mistook Core 2 erratas for Nehalem erratas; erratas that Nehalem had, had been fixed prior to launch.

Here's my take on the x48 debate; as a proud owner of a Rampage Formula, and one who has worked with two other rampage formulas with the same results, the RF is a stellar board. It is fast, tweakable and stable. Yes, the dfi x48 has more tweaks, but they don't translate into higher overclocks; in fact, the dfi x48 is actually an average quadcore clocker. At least the results that I've seen on this forum are many and they all point to limitations in quadcore clocking. Before I upgraded to a Q9550, my stable 24/7 clocks with my E8600 was 7.5 x 560 FSB. Before that, it was my E8400 at 8 x 533 and 8GB G.Skills running at DDR2 1066 for 24/7. The RF is very stable, and it is second to none on the 775/DDR2 platform imo.

I'm also interested in seeing what Cryptic's choice of a better DDR2 x48 board would be because imo there's none.

well i have tried
the dfi x48 LT, rampage formula, ramapage extreme, maximus formula se,

in terms of bandwidth clocking of the rams the dfi x48 is much better.
what pissed me off with the dfi was their pcie compatibility with certain asus gc's and a few 3870x2/4870x2's... the asus 3870x2 rog doesnt even boot on that mobo. same goes for the foxconn p35 mars.

now for ddr2 rampage formula...
if u have tried the maximus 2 formula
and then move on to rampage extreme
u will find the rampage extreme is what the rampage formula should have been.
the exact nature of the bios clocking of the rampage extreme and maximus 2 formula is almost the same.
whats my beef...
rampage formula gtl controls are just not good enough.
hence the high vnb voltages it needs.

but i do agree on the stability of the RF board is much better than dfi x48 LT/UT and needs less work to to do so.
u will spend a lot of time on the dfi x48 lt to get the ram stable rather than finding higher clocks

and my arguement with those that claims the RF clocks better than the m2f..
its because their gtl settings are all wrong for m2f.
the RF u dont really need to worry about the gtl's as much as m2f.

for e8600 on m2f and RE
i can confirm with u many of times .. using the two test to show gtl stability
running IBT for 50 runs and also running orthos ( blend then custom then choose each run 1 min) priority 10.
core 0 +40 the rest auto. tested right up to 563fsb for both boards super stable at 4.5ghz.