Quote Originally Posted by Gautam View Post
Which board doesn't?

X48 doesn't. X38 doesn't. P35 doesn't. (Not with 45nm at least which is all that matters today) You can't run a CF rig at 600MHz FSB, but it appears that an SLi rig might be doable. It's amazing seeing Team Japan pushing the envelope with 965, but these days, the high end market consists of multiple cards and DDR3, nothing that that old setup could handle.

You wouldn't buy this board. Point taken already. And your SuperPi is not an E8500. It's a QX9770 that's obviously running an older BIOS, shaving .2 secs off the time. Pop a Wolfdale in your board and see how high you can clock it and what Pi time you get.
I have shown you that P5K can do 600FSB, so does P965, here is mine X38 at 601FPS, I had 615 and I am quite sure it will go more, I just need CPU that goes, X48 will go 650, kiwi had Foxconn at 620, remember ?

Why does it mater which bios I use, it's normal to use the fastest, and here is my result with E8500, lower frequency, but it's better perf. rating.