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How is this board difference from P5E, and does anybody have an idea what it will be like for clocking a Penryn, im hoping for atleast 450x8 stable.
Also, does a Tuniq Tower fit on this motherboard?
 
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I bought the blitz formula with P35 chipset and the waterblock, back in august along with the B3 Q6600 Kentsfield. Any attempt at getting four gigs of OCZ memory into it and it could get Det ram non-posting issues.
After much fustration where it was fine with two or three sticks, but not four. I memtested all four sticks, indvidually, and one turned out to be duff and failed memtest. OCZ swiftly replaced the 2nd kit, but I now think that one of the sticks could have died due to the Board overvolting the memory, regardless of which BIOS I tried. :(

Anyhow I wasn't pleased with my Blitz as at stock it was bluescreening at odd times. I RMA'd the Board, I got a replacement and slight upgrade to the X38 chipset version, but without the waterblock. :)

The X38 Maximus formula board runs much cooler, :D the "thin pin" design is better for me as it takes advantage of my already decent air flow, within my BTX V1000.
Strangely Asus have ditched the Pedestal idea wherby the mobo sits on the rubber pads/gromits. (which I kept from my first blitz, cut in half because they raise the board far too high in comparison with the screw hole raisers)

Perhaps some other people like me were confused at, why the pads raise the board twice that of the hight of a screw hole?. I'm still very happy with the Supreme FX audio card, seems on par with X-fi to my ears on my kit.

Anyhow I have had no such problems Overclocking My kentsfield B3 with the newer revision of the formula. Right now I'm running at 3.2 very happily and I'm still on the initial BIOS. I've Played lots of Crysis over the weekend and all is good so far. All four sticks of OCZ 8500 mem are now running happily together this board seems more fine tuned and less fussy about memory settings, it still over volts but I lowered to compensate and this seems to work well.

Is 3.2 as much as I can expect to OC the B3 Q6600 ?

LaRZy
 
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I am very very tempted to buy this board in anticipation for DDR3 price drops .

However i have to begg the how much difference in performance would a Hybrid board have over a X38 board with dedicated only DDR3 have ?
 
has anyone had probs with the motherboard holding the memory back as ive just built my new system with this board a q6600 cpu and 2x1gb crucial ballistix tracer pc8500 runs great got it up to 3.5@389x9 1.39vcore but with cpuz it says the mems only pc6400 is this a bios setting or a ram one?
 
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has anyone had probs with the motherboard holding the memory back as ive just built my new system with this board a q6600 cpu and 2x1gb crucial ballistix tracer pc8500 runs great got it up to 3.5@389x9 1.39vcore but with cpuz it says the mems only pc6400 is this a bios setting or a ram one?
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It always shows up as 6400 in cpuz , my 9200 is the same its to do with the defaults loaded on initial boot
 
is ther anyway to solve this,also how can you configure the ram divider manualy as sometimes when i have to clear cmos and start again i set it to crazy and it sets the divider either to 5/6 or 1/1 depending on what mood its in!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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