ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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I can show you one, Rampage X48 will beat this board everytime, on FSB and Bandwidth. Gigabyte UD3 beats MIIF in FSB and Bandwidth at alot less $$. Hard to make a sweeping claim like that when you only have 1 board. I have tested 6 boards this year and probably 15 chips. Your intitled to your opinion and yes this is a good board but to call it the best when the bios is need of a major overhaul, many valuable performance feature's simply do not work makes it hard to support your claim. More to a board than having 1 chip clock well. Do it with 3 or 4 different chip's and you start to add merrit to your claim

X48 is not p45 so. And about the Gigabyte UD3P. You should go for it then, and compare it to your MIIF. I doubt that board can make a better stable overclock on quads at high FSB's then MIIF. That board has a cheap 6 phase power design. Entry-level board these days uses 4 - 6 phase design, maybe that is why these gigas cost 100 bucks? That is a mistake for people running high FSB and 4GHz quads. That will for sure jeopardize your stability. There is a huge huge difference from 16 phase to 6 phase. Like I said, you shoud go for it, and compare yourself. That board is a nice bench board. You can boot up to windows up to 560FSB on quads, and therefore the mem bandwidth will be a lot better, and you will never manage to do that with a MIIF. That is because of the Rev03 chipset those giga use, and they allow much higher voltage. Now that is only good for entering windows, bench, taking a SS. That's it. I am talking 24/7 board.

Also, I went to the UD3P thread, I post a SS of what it takes for the MIIF to make 500FSB stable on quads. The voltages and board load temps. I asked for them to post the same overclock, with their UD3P, so we can compare MIIF and UD3P, and see what are the volts both boards needs, and their temps, at the same overclock. So far, no UD3P matched it, and one UD3P user called me a cheater, that the voltages MIIF needed were "impossible". You can see for yourself here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...205132&page=54

I don't have a special board, and I don't have a special CPU. My CPU is a 1st revision B3 65nm quad. I think that says it all.

Just because there are people with UD3P pushing 1.7PLL and 1.7VTT on their quads, breaking WR's of highest clock on Q9650, doesn't mean anything of how solid the board is. Don't get yourself fooled.

I have never had a giga board before, but I know some people here on XS lost a lot of ram sticks on giga boards. I don't know if they kill ram or not, like I said, I never had one, but I have read here on XS a lot of people getting D9 ram killed by giga boards. Good luck. Also good luck on having some BSOD or freezes once in a while =/

I have been looking at all the P45 threads here and on other forums. I can tell you that Maximus II Formula is the best P45 board for a quad solid stable 24/7 use.

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