Quote Originally Posted by RunawayPrisoner View Post
Yeah, but what I'm trying to say is that this is not specific to ASUS boards. It also happens with Abit and DFI boards as well, as reported by a lot of others. Maybe it is a BIOS issue and a BIOS update for all X38/X48 boards is in order, but my suspicion up until now falls on the design of the chipset rather than the BIOSes. If that's true, then all X38/X48 boards might not help at all in this situation. But ASUS P5E-VM HDMI is not the only way to go. You can still choose the Striker II Extreme, and from what I've heard, that board could also hit 4GHz easily.
Its turning out to be a X38/X48/P35 issue with clocking these, most likely they didnt tune them properly for 45nm and focused more on 60nm which was the current market when all these boards were released...so if people could not clock 60nm, then nobody would buy them.

Now that 45nm is hitting the streets (slowly) but the issues are starting to come out, my guess is they never pushed these boards with 9450/3350 to 450-475mhz FSB. Part of that would explain why DFI's boards work with higher FSB, because they do extreme testing like that from what I have seen.