**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[polar bear]

I had a Q6600 in on water. It did 4050mhz easy and I was trying for 4.1G but never got stable. I am running an E8400 in it now. At 4.27G its only 200 points behind the Q6600@4G in 3dmark06 overall. The E8400 gives a 10-12fps jump in the opening to proxycon over the Q6600, both at 4G.

Thanks, that's promising. Might do that instead of getting the E8400, since the Q6600 is likely to beat it anyway despite a lower clock (in 3DMark06 at least). I'm using my computer mainly for high-end flight simming, and a quad seems to have a significant performance edge over duos in this situation.

Now that the new 45nm quads are out I guess that will be an alternative to the QX9650 for my Max_Ex, but probably I will hold off for a bit to see what sort of performance people are getting (just saw MadDog's post re: the Q9550).

EDIT: Lol, from my favoured e-dealer (Q9550): ETA: 29.04.2008