Best board for Quad and FSB's >=500?

[XBTC]

Hi there!

In Germany there is a online shop selling pretested Q9400's guaranteed to reach 4Ghz (8x500). They claim the only board that reaches 500 FSB reliable according to their tests is the GA-EP45-Extreme. They claim the ASUS P5Q Series is not able to run quads at these FSB's.

Are there any more affordable other options for 500FSB?

The DFI LANparty DK P45-T2RS Plus and the Biostar TPower I45 reach insane FSB's (>=600) with duals at least...?

 

[Automiketic]

well your mileage may vary but i successfully clocked a q9400 past 500fsb with the biostar i45. i love this board and have no complaints thought i seem to have reached a limit a 533. its not prime stable by any means at this but i do have it prime stable 500fsb.

 

[mattgmann]

sounds like BS to me. I can run my q6600 at 500fsb on a p5q-e. I'll bet any decent p45 board will work.

 

[Nebulous]

sounds like BS to me. I can run my q6600 at 500fsb on a p5q-e. I'll bet any decent p45 board will work.

What sounds like BS to you? Can you elaborate plz?

 

[XBTC]

sounds like BS to me. I can run my q6600 at 500fsb on a p5q-e.

And it is prime stable at these speeds? I read alot of bad reviews/posts about the P5Q Family concering high FSB's. You are the first to reach >=470 on a
P5Q I found so far...

I'll bet any decent p45 board will work.

According to a lot of posts here and reviews on other sites a vast majority of P45 boards does not reach much more than 450 FSB with Quads.

@Automiketic: Yeah thats a great result! I saw your posts already. The Biostar is one of the boards I considered, but there are many complaints concerning the bad support. It seems the board does not support some E0's properly?

The other option would be the DFI LANparty DK P45-T2RS Plus...?

 

[ghost_recon88]

sounds like BS to me. I can run my q6600 at 500fsb on a p5q-e. I'll bet any decent p45 board will work.

What sounds like BS to you? Can you elaborate plz?

He was probably referring to this, "They claim the only board that reaches 500 FSB reliable according to their tests is the GA-EP45-Extreme."

And it is prime stable at these speeds? I read alot of bad reviews/posts about the P5Q Family concering high FSB's. You are the first to reach >=470 on a
P5Q I found so far...

Really now? I've seen quite a few Asus P45 based boards get over 500MHz FSB on a 45nm quad. Not sure how well they handle the Q6600/Q6700 chips though...

 

[mattgmann]

It just sounds like their feeding you a line to sell you an expensive mobo, and an overpriced cpu. I'm sorry that I don't have info on hand, but I've seen quite a few reviews and benchies with quads over 500fsb on different p45 boards. That gigabyte ep-45 extreme board is certainly near the top, but by every review i've seen, the top overclockers are within a few mhz of each other.

I think you'd be better off to spend more on a cpu with a higher multiplier, and buy a less expensive motherboard. If you're tabooed about the p5q series, look to MSI. Their platinum series are overclocking machines.

 

[mattgmann]

just saying, if this p5q-e can run a mediocre high VID q6600@500mhz fsb, then what could it do with a 45nm quad??

 

[Nebulous]

Ahh., ok. Well evryone has a sales gimmick/pitch. Not all P45 boards can oc a 45nm chip like a 65nm one.

Also it's not all in the board. There's a lot of variables that go into a successful high FSB oc.

I got a P35 and get 500FSB easy.

 

[Blazing fire]

Agreed. It has to do with the person tweaking the board too. Eg. not everyone can painstakingly adjust DFI's BIOS.

 

[SeanBest]

I have the Biostart power I45 as well, running my E8600 500x9 24/7 at 1.34v. Support is poor, most of these boards are outta country unfortunately so ... once we get another BIOS I think this board is gonna tear these other boards a new one...And I mentioned a new BIOS because the current one seems to be a little weird with memory, especially Corsair brand.