ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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but i don't understand one thing: if i put -100 delay the skews what i can improve? can i put my vNB lower? vDIMM maybe? what helps this skew?

Tracks/traces on motherboard which transport informations between buses can have different lengths (and they do - of course differences in lenghts are absolutely minimal - the only exception might by DRAMM slots).

When working on nominal clocks MB projects include those differences, corrections are in printed in BIOS and some tolerance is also included. When you OC you push this included tolerance threshold to limits and this is why u need to adjust it yourself.

On motherboard there are data lines and parallel to them control data lines for this data. Both have minimal differences in length, when you over clock you change the rate at which they travel (you can say you speed them up - although technical you do not, because they already travel at almost constant close to speed of light ) and this is where mismatch can occur - when data pack traveling by one line can reach target (i.e CPU or NB or Mem Stick) faster/slower then control packet for it which traveling by parallel line then errors will occur.

So you add delay, delay sending data by one from pair of parallel line by lets say 100ps which is 0.0000000001 of the second and it helps get all the packets on time to their targets so there are no errors hence lets hope we are stable.

And coming back to question in theory It should not impact positively your volts but who knows? Tho i would not say so .

So if you are happy with you OC and you do not have problems you probably should not touch it because there is no point of doing so.

But, if as I did, you face some problems or you cant go any higher with OC then Skews might help you.