Yes, you can markedly improve a board's ability to overclock ram, increase its compatibility with ram (AFAIK D9JKH is officially supported but not D9 GMH/GKX) and better optimize other areas. Look at how much the new Gigabyte boards have improved with bios updates - one bios wont allow ram to clock over a certain speed no matter what is done, the next bios and the ram boots straight up at that speed and will go much higher.
Also, Ket's modified bioses are allowing much better ram overclocking compared to the standard asus bioses for the P5Q series boards. The bios makes a massive difference.
I just think Asus have been slack with the Maximus II Formula, and as a result it is clearly being beaten by the P5Q-Deluxe, a workstation board by comparison, which according to the M2F's 'ROG' label and higher price tag, should not be happening.
BTW, what vFSB/vNB are you running for 555 FSB stable?
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