Intel Q45 Chipset questions

[Massa9]

I can't seem to find any references to whether or not a motherboard that use the Intel® Q45 Express Chipset. If so what could be expected with  Core 2 E8400 .

Pretty sure any board that supports the 45nm skus can OC a E8400 to some degree.  from my knowledge the binning for LGA 775 Motherboards is something like this:  Intel 4 Series X48,P45,G45,P43,G43, G41.  The ones i don't know about are Q45,Q43,B43 . As far as i can tell Q Series is typically uses with  business type PCs and using Virtualization software with no mention of what it can do otherwise,

[ProKoN]

Q45 supports all C2duos and C2quads, including .45nm chips. ( may not support xeons)

 

Q45 does not overclock!!! unless you can find the pll for the particular board and use setfsb

 

X and P can Overclock!

[Massa9]

Q45 supports all C2duos and C2quads, including .45nm chips. ( may not support xeons)

 

Q45 does not overclock!!! unless you can find the pll for the particular board and use setfsb

 

X and P can Overclock!

 

Thank you.

I did read that  OEM (Dell and HP) and Intel Q45 boards do lock the voltage and frequency features in the BIOS. I had a Intel DG33TL  and all the features were locked down. you can add like 300mv to the offset and that was it. I think most LGA 775 Intel branded Motherboards had no options to change these things.