ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Nuckin_Futs]

O.K. now I got to ask, cause I used one of these Q6600's and it was ablt to scale 500FSB with just a bit more effort then older E6600 on air, and to 4GHz at that. Is anybody with an older Q6600 of lat last yr (GO) able to scale anything over the mild 450 in 1:1 with relaxed timings and no DRAM boosters? Just curious if it's the batch of quads and combo of the newer mobo.

So the only thing I see that is so different is the insistant need for RAM updeviders and use of mobo performance boosters on top of it all. Deviders were origionally really needed because our RAM couldn't clock as high as the FSB so we used down deviders to keep RAM nominal but at a cost of performance and risk of stability if OC'd too high.

As I read through these and other forums, it looks like there is little to gain in real world performance of 500x8 (or 7x) DDR1000 @ 4-4-4-9 @ 2.24v v/s 450x9 (or 8x) DDR1080 @ 5-4-4-15 @ 2.24v. the 5:6 devider here required lots more attention around the mobo and RAM to keep stable overall. My test was done w/ Q6600 (GO early rev) on ASUS P5K Deluxe.

Can another Q6600 user try it just for fun if you got time to spare, as I find it odd that I am one of few on this forum that can do it, yet I read other on the doing so but in 1:1 RAM sync.