I’m not that experienced with overclocking and with the P5W and my E6600 I just used one of the default settings that got me over 3gHz and I was happy. With the Q9450 and the Maximus Formula I tried some settings for 445FSB and had some failures but I’m still in the learning process of all of the voltage settings. I was able to successfully get it up to 3.04gHz using 380 (as opposed to the default of 2.66gHz @ 333FSB) and keeping the auto settings for the voltage. I did testing with Prime95 on all 4 cores for about 20 minutes with no issues.

It looks like it should be able to reach around 445FSB with voltage adjustments and I’ll go for that this weekend.  I’m going to give the 380FSB / auto a test run in some games!