Quote Originally Posted by hellcamino View Post
Hi first post here , has anyone tried a xeon in this board yet ? I have an x3360 already and my P5Q should be here friday . I didn't see any xeon's on the supported list although they are just a Q9550 with 2 added instructions . I've been reading about this board for a while and having had nothing but bad experiences with 780i's I decided to go back to an intel chipset .
I just got my P5Q Deluxe set up last night with X3350 (same as q9450). It works very well. With only a few minutes of tweaking (thanks to the advice and bios files posted by others in this thread ) I was at 480 FSB OCCT stable on air. That's already about 10 mhz higher than the max I've achieved for this chip on other boards and I know it will go higher once I get a chance to spend more time with the board. First impression is, this is a golden board for 45nm quad.