ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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I'm in the same boat, I was going to get a Rampage but then went MIIF and wish I had not.

I would disagree with Cryptik's last statement regarding max FSB for Rampage.
There are much higher clocks than 475 on average, and stability is not an issue its new users who are experiencing problems with stability. My only hesitation for the UD3P is the sudden death of the board and taking some chips / ram with it...DFI looks interesting as I have never had one b4 but alot of ppl jump'd ship with the LP UT X48-T2R claiming bios options were to complicated iirc

DFI is always the same - beta product for whole life cycle. PPL here complain about this or that in ASUS bios but if you will go DFI route you will have real reasons to complain.

Unless you want to bench only than probably you will not care and you will be fine with DFI.

I was also choosing between UD3P Rampage DDr2 and MF2. So far I do not know if I like MF2 as I was fighting with hardware side of it - no real clocking yet done.

I am tired but happy after endless reseating / lapping I managed to lower CPU NB and SB temps... all this effort because it will be my new 24h/7d rig for next - until it will die / or / and CPU will be not enough for gaming (vid card will be changed regularly ofc).

Anyway my current MF2 is made from two I have currently in house . Cooling from old MF2 in new one.
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BTW guys you realize that current steping of I7 has some major i think cash bug... which if solved same way as for opterons can cost those CPU 20% performance hit in some cases...

PS. hyhy I do not know why I am doing all of this as I do not have too much time to play games any more - well I guess when I will have time I want to be ready . Old habits