I have had this board up and running now for 3 days with a WC Q6600 G0 and an X3210 G0. If I was going to give you advice I would say not to jump to it yet. So far this board will not OC a quad (except for the QX9650) any better than any of the other 4 boards I have tried. Yes, it is a tinkerer's delight but it still isn't in a class by itself when it comes to the Quad. It may be after a few bios updates but for right now I would have been just as happy with the P35 version for $90 less. Some are jumping on the Foxconn Mars bandwagon cuz someone has achieved 515FSB with a quad. My guess is that is a brute force situation where a ton of vcore was still needed to get that high. But then again, at least the board got that high. If you take a look around no one is talking 500FSB with a quad, at least not for 24/7 use. But everyone has a 3.6GHz OC with varying levels of vcore. This is so common that I would be quite disappointed with anything less. I can get both of my chips to the 3.7-3.8GHz range with reasonable vcore. I have yet to get either into windows at 4GHz no matter how much vcore I give it. There certainly could be something on the board I am not seeing causing this so I will need to do some more tinkering but I think right now it is time for a new chip or wait for the Q9550.Originally Posted by pumbertot
I have not tried a C2D yet (I no longer have one available) so I can't speak to its ability with those CPUs. But I am of the impression that 4GHz should be achieved with 1.5vcore or less to call a chip a good OCer. Either I do not have a chip capable of that or none of the boards are capable.
Also, I have not yet tried to OC the memory too much. I am running everything 1:1 so until I max out the CPU I won't bother with the memory.
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