ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Cable_Tie_Guy]

CryptiK,

Why da_hell am I going to do that?
You have there a DDR2-1333 CL5 at 444FSB, and you have 9K read and 60ns latency. That is so bad it hurts.

450FSB / DDR2-900 CL4 1:1 will do about the same bandwidth and latency you are doing on your P5Q with insane DDR2-1333 CL5.

Get real, you won't have more then 1-3% boost on any game going from reasonable DDR2 clocks, to insane DDR2-1333 like that.

So if I can have the same performance using DDR2-900 CL4 with 1:1 450FSB, why am I going for DDR2-1333 on this stupid P45 with PL limitations?

If you wanna talk BIG about memory overclocking, then show me something like this:



This was done about 18 months ago LOL!
That was DDR2-900 CL3 linked / sync on 680i. Used only 2.4v on mem.
Now, for those latency and bandwidth I fought.
P45 (any board) is not that good on latency / bandwidth, it has PL limitations. So there is absolute no reason to go for those clocks on ANY P45 board since the results are always bad.

If your thing is memory overclocking, you are for sure using the wrong board, been that a M2F or a P5Q-D.

Now we can talk about fsb limitations. That is fine. But don´t show me some DDR2-1333 on 9K read and 60ns latency on a P5Q like it is a good thing. This is a very very very bad thing. One of the worst performances I have ever seen on a high clocked DDR2. On my 680i I would beat that with DDR2-800 LOL.

And my quad is a 65nm B3 LOL. It is almost impossible to overclock it on air. What I did on this board with it is not that easy as you are saying.
My 45nm will arrive soon, then we will see what it can do on M2F aircooled.