Quote Originally Posted by RunawayPrisoner View Post
It's happened with two chips on two different boards with the same model. I think it's really a board problem.
What do you mean? You chip ran 3.8ghz fine on 2 boards and not fine on others? I dont see how its a board limitation when I can clock my Q6600 perfectly fine, it goes all the way up to 490FSB on water.

I really think its one of 2 things, maybe both?

1) BIOS doesnt completely run a 45nm chip to its fullest
2) The chip just wont do anymore

Maybe some other Maximus/Rampage users could give some input on their findings, anything I have seen has been pretty inconclusive.