ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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I spent some time the other day messing around with OCing this board with my q9650. I got it stable at 445 x 9 before running out of time to try all of the settings myself, so does anyone have any advice on what to change to get this higher? I've tried just upping the CPU/vtt/vNB volts along with the FSB but couldn't get it stable for more than an hour of prime95.

M8 your template is just basic. There is a lot templates for c2q 45nm flying around here you can just read few pages back and you should find at least 3 or 4.

All your major volts are too low (I am not talking about vcore as I do not know your CPU).

Give us something to work with.

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As a quick guide for sure you would need more Vtt for > than 450mhz, more CPU PLL, more vNB, more PCIe, maybe some GTLs fine tuning.

Disable all in CPU submenu and so on.

All of that with assumption that you ram is stable.

Cheers and have fun