ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[LennyRhys]

This Mobo is a POS for Quads and anyone here with half a clue knows this.

I'm sure if you contest this a few others will chime in that dumped this Mobo for the Gigabyte and never looked back.

A few others - you mean the UD3P cheerleading squad ? The guys who went for Gigabyte did so because they wanted 500FSB, not because the MF2 is a POS. Some guys just want that extreme factor; others, like me, are happy with less than 500MHz on the FSB.

I'm not saying the board is the best (it simply isn't, not even close) but it certainly doesn't deserve to be called a POS, because it's the best P45 board I've ever owned/worked with.

Nice results, what is the VID on your CPU?

Cheers It's not mine (any more) but it was a cracker - 1.225 VID, and scaled nicely.

[In-Fluence]

I have to say as an MIIF owner (and a few Asus products), that it is a good board. It has features you would never see on a Gigabyte like temp sensor connectors and the LCD poster, both of which I found useful, and miss to a certain degree. There is the unfortunate fact that the board really didn't like going anywhere beyond 490 fsb for stability, but on the other hand it remained stable at around 0.05 lower vcore then my UD3P at a slightly lower 484x9. Getting the CPU stable beyond it seemed possible, but only by a few mhz, the NB becomes virtually impossible to stabilise beyond here though.
Since I moved over, the one key thing setting I thought might make a difference on the MIIF (if they ever bothered to update the bios) would be to change the CPU/NB skew step amounts which are 100 compared to the Gigabyte's 50. This made a big difference once going beyond 490 with the same components on the UD3P.
I would still say that given the fact that my Gigabyte is still going strong and I've even managed to get some HWbot points, I will be sticking with it, but only time will tell if those 6 phases are likely to hold out (It likes to have a little squeal when I stress it). I wouldn't blame anyone for sticking with their MIIF, but if you want to move freely whilst squeezing the most out of your RAM & CPU, and even go for some records, then the UD3P is the way to go.

All these opinions are from my own experience and I know that others have done better (and worse) than me when trying to attain that 500FSB stability.