| OK, I retested the board, and it still limits to 350Mhz with the E2200 in it.
The Q9450 arrived a couple hours ago, used a proper high pressure waterblock mount kit this time, and a good thermal grease application, mounted it up.
First thing: The CPU defaulted to 8X266 in this board, even with the latest bios.
I set it to 400Mhz out of the box, rebooted, and it hit 400Mhz fine. No longer limited to 350Mhz. Kicked it up to 433Mhz fsb (~3.46Ghz), still stock volts. booted perfectly. Letting it sit at that for a bit while the thermal grease settles.
Although its a quad, it produces vastly less heat at 3.46Ghz on 4 cores than the E2200 did at 3.3Ghz on 2 cores. 22C idle in a very warm room.
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