Quote Originally Posted by RunawayPrisoner View Post
Because there is a strap at exactly 450... and at 450, that would loosen things up a bit for the northbridge... thus, you would be able to go further from there until you reach the next strap.

Seems like there's no such thing past 333MHz on my board.

Edit:

Link FYI:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=128913
Maximus/Rampage has Strap controls on it, I am just wondering why the board acts like this with a X3350/Q9450. I really thing its a BIOS issue now, the chip seems fine, seems theres a setting holding it back, something thats causing all other voltages to be insanely high?

Wish could get to the bottom of it, but I still havent seen any conclusive evidence. Your board RunawayPrisoner is probably the best clocking I have seen, all the X38/X48 boards with the exception of DFI's UT stuff seems to have the exact same problem.... all crap out at 440FSB, I am really doubting that its the chips doing so too.