thirdshiftdj
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no it'll run anything up to 1200mhz
il agree with thridshift. upgrade your mobo, we shared the exact same maximus formula, as i sold it to him lol, anyway the x38 wasnt that impressive to me, and from what i know the x48 is a higher binned x38. so my recomendation to you would be the p45. i dont think you will ever go cf, and the maximus 2 looks so much nicer then the rampage formula, the rampage formula is a maximus formula1 with rampage stamped on instead of maximus. imo i lean towards the maximus formula 2 the first was a nice mobo.
Not true. I have the rampage formula. ITs a good board and has much better NB cooling than the maximus did. It also has more tweaking options. BTW, i'm selling mine if you are interested I used it for like 6 weeks before going back to the green team, then upgrading to i7.
I'm not saying to wait for i7, I'm saying you may not even need it. The q6600 is still a great processor and w/ a simple mobo upgrade you wouldn't need anything for awhile.
The q6600 used to be great, now it's kinda lackluster. I would rather get an E8400, especially if you want to overclock at all. The speeds you can gain from it are ridiculously awesome, especially with a good water cooling setup. And yes, it's dual core instead of quad, but I'd still buy that over a new q6600.
If you can find a good old q6600, then you'd be in business though. The earlier ones were pretty sweet overclockers.
The q6600 used to be great, now it's kinda lackluster. I would rather get an E8400, especially if you want to overclock at all. The speeds you can gain from it are ridiculously awesome, especially with a good water cooling setup. And yes, it's dual core instead of quad, but I'd still buy that over a new q6600.
If you can find a good old q6600, then you'd be in business though. The earlier ones were pretty sweet overclockers.
the rampage formula and maximus formula are the exact same mobo, same heatsinks and all, not sure which version of the rampage you had but the regular rampage and regular maximus are the EXACT same board.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u38/senor_bob/maximus_and_rampage.jpg