The Maximus Formula Thread - Help/OCing/Guide/Rampage conversion

[dionysus]

I installed the latest bios 1403 I had a q6600 stable at 3.4.
Over this weekend I picked up a retail Q9550 at a reasonable price and wanted to play with a new toy. I have it prime stable at 3.714 437x8.5 with a vcore of 1.23 and its great the temps are also very good 40c idle and roughly 63c prime. I have a question since I have very little vcore and excellent temps I tried to get it to 4.0ghz. But for whatever reason ITS A NO GO. Do all think this maybe a FSB limitation?
thx for all replys in advance.

[OLDcomer]

I installed the latest bios 1403 I had a q6600 stable at 3.4.
Over this weekend I picked up a retail Q9550 at a reasonable price and wanted to play with a new toy. I have it prime stable at 3.714 437x8.5 with a vcore of 1.23 and its great the temps are also very good 40c idle and roughly 63c prime. I have a question since I have very little vcore and excellent temps I tried to get it to 4.0ghz. But for whatever reason ITS A NO GO. Do all think this maybe a FSB limitation?
thx for all replys in advance.

Which revision is you board. Try Rampage bios 0802.

Yes, it's a fsb limitation on the x38 chipset with regard to 45nm quads.

I don't think so:
http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=901734

[dionysus]

[QUOTE=OLDcomer;4064369]Which revision is you board. Try Rampage bios 0802.

Rev. 1.xx
I can manage 447x8.5 12 hours of prime small fft.
voltage at 1.232v