look @ my post above
got one of the first Q9550 E0 retail
you will get fine benchmarks out of the box .....
but sadly enough after struggling for two days (1236 and 1237 beta)
with my trusted P5BDLX (first gen.-first rev.) I think its time to jump to a new generation of boards
The E 0 is recognised fine but board and the buggy Asus beta bios gave me a lot of headaches :
a. Vcore every time defaults to Auto when entering Bios...same happens with the multi -- changes from 6 to 8 and 8 to 6 and 8.5 nicely
b. 8,5 multi is only working @ default 333 Fsb (+ - 5 ) , no OC possible
c. 8 multi has a FSB wall @ 400 (you need a very insane and high Vcore for a 45 nm CPU)
d. CPU runs quite stable for 6 h with Prime 95 in all instances with only 1, 1 V @ 3 GHz (8x 374) with 2 x 2 GB Apogee 1150 RAM (1.45 V NB )
but fails immediately with IBT and OCCT (CPU /RAM) in seconds
best
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