DON'T.
Buy the Gigabyte, this Mobo is crap for Quad's.
I have just swapped my E8600 for a Q9650 and cannot even get 450FSB 100% stable.
CPU does 3GHZ with 1.03v which proves the VID is a lot of crap as mines is 1.275v (high) this is Primed Stable/Vantage etc).
For now I'm at 9x400 with all lowest Mobo voltages, but I cannot get 450 stable so far and 500FSB will not even boot into Windows no matter how much voltage etc.
Mobo is a Rev A2, doubt the Rev A3 NB helps that much, Asus sure have made a boob here.




don't get important voltages like DIMM, NB, SB, VTT 

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