One of the hottest boards receives special attention from xbitlabs. It's not your average performance review, but uncovers some information nonetheless. Point in question:

- an Vdrop of around 0.8v (that's something!) for the core's voltage

- at the highest overclock, some errors pop up. They describe them as strange errors that come and go. All problems vanish once you set the FSB frequency only 5MHz lower. Considering that it works well under that premise, and that you don't even have to raise the FSB Termination Voltage or North Bridge Voltage, it seems like a small quirk that will be solved trough a BIOS realease

- the memory (Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-9136C5D) had to work, while overclocking to 485MHz, with lower than nominal timings; to push the memory voltage to 2.2V didn't help. Even at its nominal frequency of 1142MHz @ 2.1V, it refused to work. Maybe that's why this memory is actually certified for the Asus P5K as DDR2 1066

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