ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[TouGe]

I have just bought a p5q deluxe and I had trouble even loading vista at stock settings with my q9450. I have been told to downgrade bios and that the new bioses were problematic. This gave me a bad taste on my first day.

Is maximus 2 formula a better overclocker than the p5q deluxe? Do the bioses have less quirks? At least the layout seems to be better. I can keep my sound card on the bottom slot away from my video card.

IMHO, the P5Q-D is a better performer than the M2F and, from past experience, the 13xx BIOS for the P5Q-D was rather stable. Have you tried Ket's moded P5Q BIOS's? You might be having RAM issues, what's your hardware?

[DiscoTech]

I have just bought a p5q deluxe and I had trouble even loading vista at stock settings with my q9450. I have been told to downgrade bios and that the new bioses were problematic. This gave me a bad taste on my first day.

Is maximus 2 formula a better overclocker than the p5q deluxe? Do the bioses have less quirks? At least the layout seems to be better. I can keep my sound card on the bottom slot away from my video card.

IMHO, the P5Q-D is a better performer than the M2F and, from past experience, the 13xx BIOS for the P5Q-D was rather stable. Have you tried Ket's moded P5Q BIOS's? You might be having RAM issues, what's your hardware?

No, I have seen other people having problems on the p5q thread with the same combo. All my components were working on another motherboard. Everything is at stock, I tried with one dimm, also increased ram voltage. Memory is micron d9gkx.

why do you say p5q-d is a better performer? higher max fsb? higher cpu or ram overclock?