"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[CryptiK]

I guess with that card he could just use it in the 8x slot?

After a few more hours of poking aorund my DFI board I'm coming up empty handed... If I get this board and an E0 Quad Q9650 would I have a decent shot at 4GHZ under water (including the mosfets?)

My DFI board or my C1 stepping CPU can't seem to do more than 400 FSB. Although at 400 FSB I'm prime and 50 iteration burn test stable #3200mhz on my Q9450 with only GTL tweaks. I'm going to try flashing the bios again...
If I fail, I will probably be picking up this board and selling what I have.

But I need to know if this board will clock well with the 8GB of ram in my Sig.
G.Skill DDR2 1100 PC2 8800
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231195
Great reviews huh? But it might be PEBCAK, since the same memory with only 2 sticks has 100% 5 star reviews?

Is it that none of the MB's out can achieve 500 FSB with 8GB of ram in them?

Well, I can't answer this as I have never run 8GB, but you *should* be able to achieve a good overclock but you will need to be very careful with timings, and it will need decent vNB, and it has to be fully compatible with the P45 chipset, I'm not sure if that particular ram is or not, but it should be possible. Look to some of the guys running 4GB and base your template for 8GB off theirs.

You should also be able to do better than 3.2GHz on a P5Q-D, 500 FSB has been done with a quad, I think Leeghoofd has done it and others too.

does anyone know what voltages these are, 1.66/1.16 in occt

Have you set any voltages at or around that level? perhaps vPLL and vFSB? Also OCCT is not the tool you want to be using to measure voltages. I'm quite sure the bios/board doesnt have the capability to detect vPLL, vFSB, vNB or vdimm, so who knows what those voltages are.