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Originally Posted by devilhood
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I am thinking of some new RAM guys. My options so far are:
1. DDR2 1066 Dominator kit
2. DDR2 1066 Team Xtreme kit (needs 2.3-2.4 volts stock though)
3. DDR2 800 Buffalo Firestix kit
4. DDR2 1066 Mushkin eXtreme performance kit
All kits are 2x1GB.
Out of those options, what looks best for me?
Also, if you have suggestions/links they would be appreciated.
Yeah, I doubt it was the board as well. It seems anything 2.2V and up has a running life of ~3 to 6 months, at least that has been my experience. I just figured that if I buy another 4 gigs now then I will have a spare 4 gigs just incase something else happens down the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberDruid
I'll probably be running DDR2 through 2008 anyway. I was an early adopter to DDR2 and paid out the @$$ for it. I will not do the same for DDR3.
I got my X38 up and running. The issue was that the mobo sets the voltage to 1.8V by default. I went by Circuit City today and bought a stick of Kingston Value RAM DDR2-667 for $45 and it booted on the first try. I then set my VDIMM to 2.2V and shut down. I then installed 2 Ballistix DIMMS and it POSTed! I set the timings and I'm good now.
BTW I originally bought a stick of DDR2-533 and it wouldn't POST either, but the DDR2-667 would.....if anyone else is having this issue.
I have tried xms2, ocz gold, and finally got sick of it all and got a pair of dominator 1066's and everything is smooth sailing to far. Memtest ran stable for an hour, and no errors were found. I had initial suspicions that the ram slots were bad, but these sticks blew away that suspicion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renegade5399
I would recommend the dominators
so once again, which bios would you guys recommend?
I'm running 0701, but I haven't tested a higher OC yet. I'm running my sig rig at 3.2 GHz right now DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 42 2T with the rest of my timings to auto.
I know my chip is stable for hours of Prime for 3.6 at least, and I am going to push it harder soon.......I have three days off next week so I should have some good OC info up here in a few.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShawnTRD
Yeah but not much, just simple 3000 Mhz with 8x divider and 1.425v. Ram is at 901 and 2.2v
I'm sort of biased toward Mushkin, before my Patriots I had two different sets of their PC6400's and liked them very much. They OC respectfully and are, of course, Micron D9's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renegade5399
Check out their forum here:
http://forums.mushkin.com/phpbb2/
HHmmmmmmm......I can't seem to boot past 400 FSB. I have my VCore set WAY high compared to what I was running on my P5K (3.4 GHz @ 1.384 vs 3.2 @ 1.42 after VDroop)
Are there any FSB holes on this board with 0701?
BTW Cyberdruid, I'm getting some MEGA hot temps as well. They need to get a better BIOS out....I'm going to revert to an earlier one tomorrow to test out my max FSB. Maxing at 400 isn't good....
hmm, i think someone mentioned to me earlier that the VID should be higher than Vcore? or did i misread that piece of information? my coretemp says my Vcore is 1.225, my Vcore is set to 1.4185, think that may cause the bloated temps?
Obviously vcore is related to temp but vcore doesnt need to be less then VID...
FYI - The database for the boys running the Maximus SE's stock ROG cooling on water is growing.
Still looking for more data though...
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=164610
So far:
ROG Member ----- NB volts -- NB Loaded --------------- CPU ------------------
Renegade5399 ---- 1.65v ------ 34°C ------------ Intel Core2Duo E6850 G0 @ 4GHz
bill d ------------- 1.30v ------ 34°C ----------------------------- Q6600 Stock
ragge86 ---------- 1.65v ------ 36°C ---------------------------- Q6600 @ 3.8GHz
BulldogPO -------- 1.65v ------ 40°C -24/7 QMC crunching clocks - Q6600 @ 3.8GHz
weescott --------- 1.74v ------ 43°C --------(Q9550 444x8.5) 1.49v 62c under load
j0nnyr0773n ------ 1.54v ------ 44°C ------------------------- Q6600 GO @ 3.6GHz
Clump ------------ 1.62v ------ 46°C (After 1HR or Prime 95) ----- Q6600 @ 3.6GHz
raju -------------- 1.65v ------ 49°C (Prime95 Torture Temp) ----- Q6600 @ 3.6GHz
Note: After Raju remounted, max temp went down to 39°C
Note: NB temps over 47°C are prone to failures during longer Prime torture test runs.
HiQuote:
Originally Posted by Renegade5399
somethings not right here, the RAM is rated @ 2.2v so you run it @2.3v and RMA twice?????????
I bet you never thought your ripping Crucial off did you? Your making RAM prices higher than they need to be.
If you overclock and go out of spec take responsability and take the loss, might I suggest you buy some RAM that's rated @ 2.3-2.4v then run it at those voltages if they go wrong you then have a valid claim.
Sorry but it makes me angry I pay a premium for RAM that's rated at a higher voltage to avoid what's happened to you.
I know loads of other people do it and they also anger me, but if your going to do it then go ahead and don't post what your doing on here, we really don't need to know that your obtaining replacement goods by deception.
Don't take it personal it applies to all that do it, I'm having a bad day one of my PC's is dead whilst running @ the recommended settings and it's 4 days out of warranty.
Good point :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ShawnTRD
Ok, this board has just insanely scared the crap out of me.
Basically, the thing I missed yesterday, was that my RAID array failed because it suddenly decided to pump 2.0v into FSB Termination. Everything is manually set, 1.38v on the FSB as well.
When I noticed the mobo started posting weirdly I decided to check all my settings after the Overclock failed message blah blah, went into the Extreme Tweaker menu and sure enough, it had MANUALLY set the FSB Termination to 2.0v
How on earth can the board decide to alter the settings manually by itself? I didn't even have any of the ASUS software installed with my brief experience of setting up Vista, no EPU driver or anything.
Main thing I'm worried about now, is recovering data from my RAID-0, but now I'm scared for all the other voltage settings, because if it can happen to the FSB without a real reason, what's not to say that it hasn't been randomly happening to the CPU, PLL, SB and DRAM all this time? No wonder people have been complaining about their RAM suddenly dying.
The near double voltage spikes that happened with GAR are definitely not a one-off, as we can see now, this is a serious problem that can potentially ruin everyones hardware.
I'm preparing to write ASUS a pretty long e-mail regarding this :(
Hmmmm
Still trying to find some sweet spot around 3800.
This board is definitely much happier on the 0401 BIOS regarding temps but I seem to have lost some DRAM speed options that were allowing for some better performance Folding...
RE RAM overvolting. I have never RMAed RAM yet I have overvolted every stick of RAM I have ever owned...
It's called OVER clocking ;)
RAM should not fail from a mild Overvolt IMO. Mine has not...I run ALL my RAM out of spec...
Running HW in spec is for Pussies... sorry nothing personal :p: I feel that way about anyone that does it...
:ROTF:
2 or 4 imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renegade5399
you better lower that voltage or those crucial's won't last long!!!!! this board likes to overvolt!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by binormalkilla
same thing happened to me... only once, but it happened. at first i thought that i did it by mistake. then i realized that there was no way i could have done that. oh well, hasn't happened again... knock on wood!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by devilhood
Yep, and now I've started getting random hangs on INIT ROM according to the LCD Poster and INIT ROM isn't even in the bloody manual.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSamurai
This is extremely frustrating.
When EPROM "blooms" onto the ROM initializing the BIOS parameters.. Hands there from my experience are about the RAM...either timing speed or voltage is making the RAM throw a fault...
I had a similar issue with my Abit AW9D-Max and high voltage RAM.
Thanks CyberDruid, I just increased the latencies a tad and it seems to have solved the POST problem, though memtest86+ was able to work fine for hours without errors.
Bios 602Quote:
Originally Posted by Warboy
:) Yep there is a sweet spot as you say Warboy. I used your settings but in XP64Bit and its happy at 435x9 with the voltages you gave in this post. I'm going to try and push a bit higher though and tighten the timings a little.
BTW if any of you want a stable operating system better than Vista64 and which I have some issues with i.e TimeBug xfi issues and Geforce 8800GTX holding on to thread then try XP64 its snappy more responsive and loads faster than XP32 and you can get Alchemy to work in games even though its not built for this operating system. actually it sounds better than XP clearer in all channels rear especially.:up:
My Ram doesn't want to be stable at 900. So I would try turning that down. Did you try booting up memtest86? At 900 my ram fails within 20 minutes if not sooner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trice
yup!!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberDruid
Just to get a fair baseline to compare the two BIOS (0401 and 0701) I Set the board to the highest voltages that are "green" in BIOS and ran Super Pi 1M, 3DMark06 and then for idle load comaprison used StressCPU32 all in XP Pro SP2 32 bit.
Here's what 0401 looks like. You can see PC Probe is totally off on the CPU temp...which I have come to expect.
37C idle 55C load on the CPU.
The NB is LCed and you can see the various temps in the shots.
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8...letempsut6.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/904...esstemplw1.jpg
what are you running for gfx cards cyber? x-fire 2900xt?
Flashed to 0701 and reset the the BIOS to the exact same settings and it would not boot...
When the 0701 BIOS revises the RAM dividers and offers more settings the previous strap no longer works..
So instead of DDR2 1000 the RAM is now at DDR2 1066..which is not a bad thing. :)
Idle temps are actually about 2C lower in 0701...glad I took the time to check that.
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8...emps001qe8.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7...emps002yv5.jpg
So no real difference there...
Hmmm
The higher temps I experienced at 9 x 435 must be due to some other settings..not the revision.
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSamurai
interesting find on the 0701!! it must have been the same issue for me with the ram. my previous settings that were prime/occt stable would give me issues. maybe i'll give it another shot.
does reflashing your bios so many times cause issues? lol
LOL?Quote:
Originally Posted by kimandsally
Sorry for the loss of your rig.
Understand that if I am paying good money for RAM, I expect it to perform. The RAM dying when only overvolted .1-.14 volts and being actively cooled is unacceptable. I will return these for a new set and I will not feel bad about it. Sorry if this fries your rear, but honestly, you most likely would do the same thing if you were tight on cash. So don't lecture me on the ethics of RMA and warranty return. I honestly don't care to hear it.
That being said, I will most likely either go with the Mushkins or the Dominators. Thank you to those who gave suggestions.
Nope. But the additional strap or divider or w/e is just something that could freak you out if you were not aware.
Still looking for the sweet spot...but with the temps I am getting i will have to settle for 3600 Folding.
Could be the block is not seated just right..I have a pair of 200mm fans doing the push pull on the PA160 so I know it's getting plenty.
On other PA160 CPU loops (Quad B3 nonetheless) I was getting better temps...and that was with a single 120mmm so something is still making the CPU hotter than I like...
I have recently built a number of LC quad loops so when I see temps this high it makes me wonder where I can improve...I should be nearly 10C lower
Anyone come across a usbehci.sys BSOD? been trying to figure out exactly what causes this as it is always usbehci.sys that crashes, and it usually happens when my machine is in the process of restarting (still in Windows) or when it first logs into Vista.
The reason for crash is DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Is this possibly related to the BIOS EHCI Hand-off feature? or a hardware conflict of some kind?
Do you have any USB drives attached? Try going into BIOS and change the setting for PnP OS.
Yeah, I have a Western Digital External 500 GB HD attached via USB.
PnP O/S is set to YES on the BIOS, should I just leave that on NO instead? maybe Vista is causing IRQ problems with the device somehow.
The drive also tends to initialize very slowly during POST causing DET IDE to sporadically hang on a cold boot too. It would probably be better if I just used it via FireWire lol
Hey guys just wanted report back with anyone having problems with this board, give gigabyte a shot, i got my 3.84ghz overclock back prime stable, my ram runs at a nice 1068mhz.............the x38's all have seem to have the bios issue where it reverts to default.....this board sometimes does this......this is pretty uch the only thing thats bothering me.............anyway if anyone needs an alternative to the maximus gigabyte seems like a good choice.
Good to know! cheers, if I get even more annoyed with the Maximus I will surely swap it in for a Gigabyte... but I really do want to see if this board matures.Quote:
Originally Posted by GAR
the ballistix series are rated @ 2.2vQuote:
Originally Posted by TheSamurai
My IP35 PRO's wont even boot em at the default 1.8v
Quote:
Originally Posted by Warboy
I had to adjust these settings slightly to account for individual overvolting and undervolting, but yeah, there seems to be a sweet spot! Well done that man! :up: :D :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by DeViTTo
I've been playing with vFSBT as well, and for me too much causes the same instabilities as too little. You have to get it JUST right, from what I'm experienced!
what would cuase intermittent short freezes? Whenever i run world of warcraft, the game would periodically freeze for like 2 seconds and then recover. Sometimes my computer makes the click noise like it was about to turn off, but its not turning off. Strange.
Hi guys,
I`m new here in this forum (from forumdeluxx.de) and english isn`t my favorite language, but I`ll try my best ;)
Have problems to run my 2x1GB Kingston HxperX 8500 above 1000Mhz and I`m thinking about buying a new kit.
Therefor I would like to know, if Corsair Domitaor 8500 or Transcend aXeRAM 9600U runs good or if there are some same problems? Does anybody have this board-ram-combination?
Thank you a lot for replies. Regards, eSp!s0.
yes, the ballistix series is rated at 2.2v... but when you set 2.2v in bios it overvolts in windows by more then .1. that was the point i was making.Quote:
Originally Posted by lazy
Ok, scratch that. The sweet spot didn't do jack for me...I hate this board!
Make sure PCIE is set at 100, make sure your graphics card isn't over heating, check the stability of your overclocks.Quote:
Originally Posted by chocobo15
Sometimes a computer can freeze when a drive becomes unresponsive due to failure.
Ok, just curious. When people post voltages here, are they posting BIOS SET or ACTUAL voltages?
I'm so close to getting those "sweet spot" settings stable, and that'll help my Folding no end!!!
does the 400Mhz memory strap work in 0404?
And Kup, what bios was you trying to use?
Sorry for the Double post, But here is pics of my setup and of the bios i finally got uploaded.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/Warboy/Maximus/
PS. Taking pictures of a HDTV = weird looking.
i posted a picture of my stable 3.9 and 4gb ballistix a few posts back... i usually post actual (according to probe).Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
CPU PLL seems quite high... also, what bios are you using? it doesn't look much like mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warboy
Its 0701Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSamurai
Please, woul dyou post the screens, it'll help many people. Still watching this board to get oneQuote:
Originally Posted by devilhood
LOL I know, I meant the effective VDIMM ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by TheSamurai
I set it in the BIOS as 2.16 and it ends up as 2.212V or something...
That setup I achieved has suddenly 'become' unstable recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonny_ftm
This board is so temperemental it's like trying to feed food to a crying baby, seriously, I have no idea what is going on anymore.
Disabling DRAM Static Control at 400 FSB made Memtest86+ freeze after 20 minutes, but enabling it seemed to increases stability. That is completely the opposite of what AnandTech's review said. I'm mostly working with the 3:4 divider.
I'm still testing, but I hope the next BIOS comes out soon to fix the temp increase and voltage spikes.
First of all don't use Memtest86. It's total garbage for finding memory errors. It doesn't stress the RAM hard enough. OCCT is good, but this is bet ter and more precise:Quote:
Originally Posted by devilhood
http://hcidesign.com/memtest/
You can actually use up %100 of your RAM. I leave about 20Mb behind for running firefox or watching a TV show, etc so I can do something while it's running.
I would let it run to at least %400 coverage. After I do my initial stability testing I run it until %1000 while I'm at work. This typically takes ~ 8 hours.
Well I tried 0602 and I still can't OC past 400 FSB...:\
My CPU is stable at 3.6, so I'm going to set my multi back to 9 after I compare some of benches from my P5K that was at 3.4 GHz. I set the FSB to 378*8 for comparison....even though the RAM is slower it should be pretty close for Crossfire comparison.
BTW if anyone wants to have a look I'm comparing Crossfire performance between the P5K Deluxe and the Maximus. In game and 3dmark.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=165033
I'm not a big fan of Memtest86+ either, but I usually use it for initial testing.
If I can clear 2 tests I then restart into Vista and run ORTHOS on Blend and Large FFT for while to be 100% certain.
I'll give that other Memtest program a go though, cheers for that.
Hey NP man, you'll love it. I used to run Memtest bootable ISO until I had some RAM that was giving me crash to desktops......even though it passed Memtest86 for 8 hours! I downloaded HCI Memtest and it had errors within 15 seconds. Yea, Memtest86 FTL:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by devilhood
Crossfire performance is excellent on this board. I got more than 1K points on this board compared to the P5K Deluxe. I was even running a lower FSB with a higher multi, thus lower RAM as well. I had a score of 17191 with the P5K using Crossfire and the same CPU internal clock.
http://aycu03.webshots.com/image/314...8426044_rs.jpg
What size tubing do you need for the fusion block? I haven't found any information about this if you want to water cool your chipset. This is handy if you are already watercooling. All you need to do is some re-plumbing and your done. BUT, I haven't a clue what size tubing it takes. What size tubing do those white tubular screws found inside the fusion block system accessory bag accommodate?
Edit:
It comes with 3/8" and 1/2" tubing adapters
Quote:
ASUS supplies both 3/8" and 1/2" tubing adaptors together with spring clamps to hold tubing in place. Unfortunately, our high flow pumps (Petra Top DDC Ultras) were too much for the 1/2" spring clamps. Using the supplied 1/2" clamps, our tubing actually came loose and shot off the barbs. Bottom line: screw type hose clips are a safer bet for high-pressure water cooling pumps.
I'm pretty sure it comes with a couple sets of barbs for 1/2" and 3/8" but somebody who had bought the board should verify that?
Using 0701 at the moment? Would you recommend another bios revision instead?Quote:
Originally Posted by Warboy
Memtest on the P35 and X38 is not reliable by any means. You could be at stock and still get like 4 random errors on the X38. It's a good indicator if RAM has failed totally though. Like me, it gave 142,354 errors by test #3. LOL...
You might need to just crank up the volts to your CPU, it could be the CPU causing the instablitiyQuote:
Originally Posted by kup
I've been using Windows Memory Diagnostic as a bootable cd for a while and find it reliable, running the extended tests can find the more difficult to detect errors but a full pass on 4GB can take a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renegade5399
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
I was thinking this, but then I seem to get the Full Load Issue thing. It's catch 22 really...higher clocks that aren't 100% utilized or lower clocks that are? Hmm...should be an easy one...but that bigger number looks so nice! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Warboy
Any infos to this configs? :wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by eSp!s0
I can't crack 99.85% of utilized processing at these overclock, So I'm losing .15% oh well....Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
Well it looks like I'm going to be stable at 400*9=3.6 GHz....DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 42. Temps are HORRIBLE with this board though....I guess it could be that I seated the CPU poorly, but I doubt it. I've done it a hundred times...
Look at the difference between the same CPU and OC on my P5K Deluxe.....insane. THe P5K is the bottom pic.
http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/328...1000530_rs.jpg
http://aycu33.webshots.com/image/330...0129096_rs.jpg
this may sound stupid but with all these overvolting and changing things on this board with high oc's..maybe sombody could do some mods for setting them critical areas manually to see if it still overvolts things with the high oc's.. maybe adjustable pots or stuff like that..
What voltages have you set? tbh I wouldn't worry about temps too much, it is obviously a BIOS bug. My P5W64-WS Pro used to show over 80 degree's celcius for CPU temps and it never failed with four instances of ORTHOS all running Blend.Quote:
Originally Posted by binormalkilla
i have this motherboard.. and a Q6600 (G0)
i run it att 3.4Ghz @ 1.42v, stable at orthos.. but when i run it on 3.6ghz @ 1.45volts, i get error after 5minutes in orthos..
what is wrong? what volt settings is important in bios? except vcore?
the temp went from 66 @ 3.4ghz to 79 on 3.6ghz :(
With BIOS 0701 I get CPU temp of 70 celcius max on full-load with Prime95, but trying to eliminate errors at the moment whilst keeping really tight latencies.
what bios are you running simkin? air or water cooled? i'd say SPU PLL, FSBT, NB, voltages are important. hell, all are important. what i did is looked in the manual for the highest normal settings (except for DRAM) and set it to that. i worked my way back from there to find what was stable. that was for the 3.8 though. 3.9 was another story.
What did it take for you to get 3.9GHz (Bios settings?)? I'm in a similar boat. 3.8GHz was a breeze, 3.9GHz is causing more headaches than I'd like to endure for a mere 100MHz...Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSamurai
Well I don't know how accurate the core temps are, but the X38 chipset is HOT :eek: i can touch the heatsink and it's really hot....Quote:
Originally Posted by devilhood
Intel's data sheet says that the absolute max for the X38 is 92C....I bet we would experience instability before reaching that limit.
These are all according to PC Probe when applicable, otherwise BIOS.
VCore1.400V
NBV: 1.57V
DRAM: 2.19V (seems to fluctuate....I don't like that)
FSB Term 1.54
PLL~1.60 or so
Here I am stable for OCCT @ 3.6 GHz DDR2-1066:
http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/350...8376857_rs.jpg
They should bundle this board with duo Deltas and earplugs oh and lets not forget Thermal Probes since every software reading is way off. My cpu just went way over 80 C.
is there anyone using the 0701 bios with a clock speed of 3.6 or more and has low core temps?
and is coretemp really 15 degrees higher than what it actually is?
701 is definitely reporting hotter than the other bioses, but that does NOT mean that it is wrong... Running SETI my hottest core is 52C (Q6600 G0) when i run small FFT's hottest core is ~57C. I'm at 1.55v in bios at 3710Mhz.Quote:
Originally Posted by chocobo15
I'm running 3.6 @ 9*400 with 1.400V VCore load during Prime95 (according to CPU-Z and PCProbe)Quote:
Originally Posted by chocobo15
My load temps are 51 52 52 55 right now. I'm using Everest to monitor temps.
All people able to run higher than 400 FSB:
What BIOS settings are you using? I can't get mine higher than 400.....I was running this chip at 450*8 on my P5K Deluxe....I still have plenty of headroom to go past 3.6......
my 1066 dominators suck ass on this board
i tried 600 @ 5-5-5-18 with no luck
and 533 @ 4-4-4-8 with no luck either, both on 2.4v
Yea I'm pretty sure that the QVL memory list is a freaking lie for this board :rofl:
my 1066 Dominators easily does 1200mhz on this board
^^^ my dominators has been doing very wel as well, try 533 @ 2.1 volts with 5-5-5-15 and if that works, try other CAS latencies or higher bus
only reason i'm doubting it...as some other members are as well, is becuase the difference in temp for the same OC profile is too great!Quote:
Originally Posted by nikhsub1
My OC profile was always 400x9 but in 0505 the core temps were in the mid 40's and just by flashing the bios and resetting up the same exact OC profile ramped the temps up to low to mid 60's. There are guys with 470+ fbs on air cooling with lower temps than me. I know thermaltake isn't that great for water cooling, but it should suck this bad
WTF MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't post over 400 for anything.....this sucks. I hope I didn't just get a bad board for OCing.....
Tested with 3 pairs of memory and OCZ PC2 8000 Titanium Alpha VX2 went 520mhz 4-4-4-12 settings, my old cors CM2X512-5400UL 500mhz 4-4-4-12 and Transend aXeRAM 800+ 550mhz with 4-4-4-12 settings, last one not memtest stable, but superpi 1M stable.
Haven't even tried loosen those settings, but maybe later that
this board is something else.. I hope they fix the mem ratio problems.
I can't get these damn board to use any divider besides 5:6
I tried others, but the system won't even post. No matter how fast or slow they are.
I'm running an FSB strap of 400 with DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 at FSB=400. You could try that....should be the same with your RAM. We both have D9GMH ICs....
Make sure you have enough NBV.....this mobo requires a lot.
Try running a chkdsk /r on the drive, that has fixed that error before for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by devilhood
Oh and here's the newest stable settings with the lowest voltages I can achieve so far. Still trying to lower them.
CPU Ratio Control Manual
Ratio CMOS setting 8
FSB Frequency 450
FSB Strap to NB Auto
PCIE Freq 100
DRAM Freq DDR2-1128mhz
DRAM Command Rate 2T
DRAM Timing Control Manual
cas 5
ras to cas 5
ras precharge 5
ras active time 15
Everything else AUTO
-----------------------------------
Voltages
CPU Voltage 1.4875 (1.464 droop)
CPU PLL Voltage 1.5
NB Voltage 1.61 (overvolting to 1.65)
DRAM Voltage 1.98 (overvolting to 2.1)
FSB Term Volt 1.4 (overvolting to 1.472)
SB volt 1.050 (overvolting to 1.09)
Loadline Calib Enabled
CPU GTL Ref auto
NB GTL Ref auto
DDR2 channel A auto
DDR2 channel b auto
DDR2 Controller auto
SB 1.5v 1.5
Both spread spectrums disabled.
VID: 1.3000v
These temps are under full Prime95 load while I post this. Also, I find no difference in performance / benchmarks when changing any of the GTL References, so I am leaving them on auto, if anyone has opposing information, please share :D
When you power a Maximus on for the first time, what will your RAM voltage be set to. I have 1.8v RAM and don't want to fry it on initial power up...
Once I get control of the bios, I should probably set it to 1.7v with the ram over-volt issue?
Thanks
Thats exactly what you'll have to set it at.
It defaults to 1.8V. I was having issues with my 2.2V RAM not POSTing, so I had to buy some cheap stuff to POST.Quote:
Originally Posted by Talonman
Thanks for the reply's!!
I kept seeing most everybody's ram voltage set higher than 1.8v, I just figured the default was higher....
Thanks for the info.
Hi welcome to the forum:up:Quote:
Originally Posted by eSp!s0
I have the identical ram and I could get it up to 1066 but it wouldn't go any further.
Make sure you a on a low CPU multi try 7X then set the strap to either 333 or 400.
Set the RAM voltage to 2.1v as the board over volts, set the timings to
5-5-5-18 and leave the rest on Auto. That should see you on the right track.
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Originally Posted by kup
A few days ago I received my Asus Maximus Formula SE. I have a problem though. I started OC'ing on auto-voltage till I reached the max. When I'm trying to raise the CPU voltage the problem begins. When I set the voltage from AUTO to the same voltage but then manual (1,3375 V) the pc won't start. Only when I raise the voltage higher (1,43V) the pc starts. My CPU-Z shows a voltage of 1,18 then. No matter how much I raise the voltage now, it stays at around 1,2. Any have a sollution for this problem??
Thanks
The latest BIOS makes CPU-z show a false value.
OCing at Auto allows the board to adjust volts for you...so even though you may have a low Vcore or w/e it will adjust other voltages to compensate.
This is not an easy board to OC past about 400 FSB. After that point you will need to read and absorb and act on the info in this thread...
Ok, so far I have managed to get my system totally Prime stable with 4-4-4-10-5 timings at 378x9 with the 400 FSB to NB Strap. I'm aiming for the 3.4GHz mark instead of 3.6, because it allows for much more stable 24/7 usage with Air cooling. I don't want Crysis BSOD'ing on me :P
I started with 1.31v on the CPU and made my way up to 1.35v until Prime finally stabalized.
The FSB Termination and NB voltages extremely low though, so things are looking good.
I'd go for 3.6GHz if I wasn't working with the 0701 BIOS though, the temp increases are making me very paranoid.
I'm going to try tweak latencies even tighter because it still feels like I have quite a lot of headroom with the RAM; but seriously, it's pretty mind boggling how this board reacts to slight changes in the BIOS, kinda like prodding someone on shrooms.
A list of my BIOS settings will be posted as soon as I am 100% happy with the setup.
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Originally Posted by TheSamurai
Mod completed using a 4B pencil. With Loadline enabled I now get 1.544v for 1.55v in bios. MUCH better than the previous 1.52v-ISH I was getting pre-mod.Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
Testing those sweespot settings again now. Bios 0701. Will report back later as to whether it crashes or not. I can use above 1.55v bios, but then I get the LOAD BUG and it's not worth the drop in Folding performance....
And it just crashed! It likes to do this as I'm typing up my results... :P
Don't OC on Auto voltages. Make sure you're also adjusting the NB and FSB Termination voltages too, they don't need to be that much higher than stock for it to POST above 350+ FSB, Stick to using 1:1 and 3:4 dividers only if you want good latencies.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiesum
Ok, I have been fiddling with settings but my noobness to overclocking is getting the better of me.
What sort of max overclock realistically should I be expecting from my C2D E6550 2.33ghz FSB1333 and my Kingston 800mhz mem? I have set my Mem to 1.9v as the max is 2.0v to cover the overvolting. See sig for full rig details...
I have it currently running stable at 2.8ghz (400 fsb) and 800mhz mem. Anything higher than about 405 fsb and XP gives a BSOD on bootup??
I have pushed my 8800gts up to 600/1035 and have broke the 10k barrier on 3DMark06 but everyone else seems to be getting alot higher??