UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[BustaH]

Honestly man, it's not the board, it's the chip . There is no setting that will make my or many other peoples BCLK go any higher than 222MHz (indeed that will usually be 220.8MHz or thereabouts). Well, I guess it could be the X58 chipset somehow having an effect on this and maybe your board happens to have one of the few more decent X58s but I doubt it. Just for kicks, get a different (retail not ES) 920 chip and try to run the same BCLK. Very likely you will not be able to...

Don't cherry pick a chip, just pick one up, any one.

Edit: Does anyone know why the board does not want to correctly set the BCLk when one sets it? Like 222MHz always appears as 220.8MHz, 205MHz appears as 204.8MHz, 208MHz appears as 206.8MHz...that sort of thing...any ideas?

I cant agree with you on this one. I dont believe its the chips [some of course yes], If you put your chip in a dfi or evga board im sure you would see it do higher bclk.
cstkl has used same chip on two boards, second Board has given Him higher bclk, that points to the board. its the board that is the limiter not the chipset or chip as far as max goes on r2e. Chipset is the same on all x58 boards, its the power delivery and bios imo that determines first what its going to be capable of.
gigabyte/evga/foxconn and dfi have seen way over 220 bclk. coincidence? no I dont think so.

goateater is the only person I've seen go past 222 on R2E.