ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[STaRGaZeR]

see this, some friend show me this pic of asus P5E ....



its, a maximus formula PBC ? or this is P5E CHULA jijiji ( chula in spanish means pretty LOL )

Yup, thats my own board

It is the same PCB and the same components.

Si DualCore, esta chula esta placa. No conviene gastarse el dinero en la Maximus teniendo lo mismo por menos dinero ^^

[happ]

Judging on this very thread and this thread:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=160849
Maximus owners seams disappointed with theirs motherboards, and P5E owners are very pleased with theirs. The reason is maybe Maximus owners think they get less than they expected. For the other hand P5E guys feel they get more then expected.

I am modest guy and I am more than happy with my P5E, after P5W DH dlx. To be clear that is great mobo for my E6600, but my quad couldn't reach 3.0 Ghz. On new board it is flying on 3.6. Probably I can push it more, but as I said, I am modest guy, and I am not giving a dime for all that new revision and x48 fuss.

FYI for some reason price different between Maximus formula and P5E in my country is more than 100 €.

[Leeghoofd]

Price difference in Belgium around 50 euro's so I went for the Mus... got a 1.02G one , till now it runs as good as my P5LK dlx ( 8 x 450 )with way less heat output, so a pretty happy camper here

[Darkatom]

Wow, the 0505 bios is amazing. On the 0401( shipped bios) I would get some very bad vdroop even with loadline calibration enabled. Im talking about a .07 difference. Now with 1.45 vcore set in bios I get 1.43 idle and 1.44 load (cpuz & speedfan ). Thats pretty impressive.

[Renegade5399]

You guys are killing me. My board will be here on Halloween. /me waits

[DeViTTo]

I'm a noob to overclocking but hey!

Have managed to clock this board stable to 3.72ghz by dropping the mutilpier to 8x and pushing bus to 465mhz, I have gone upto 3.8Ghz but need to work on stabliity. Will be stress testing it soon with correct programs when I can find them.

The only thing I had to do voltage wise was to set the Dram voltage to 2V and change the timmings of my Crucial Blastitic PC8500 4GB memory to 5,5,5,18 at 5,5,5,15 would end benchmark and would stick in thread and stop when doing old 3DMark2001SE.

Achieves a score of 64108 on that,
3DMark06 score 13421

BTW have watercooled the whole system in Silverstone tj09 using

XSPC basic kit but have added chipset block which didnt or wouldnt fit in place of SB heatsink so placed it on top of it instead. I also have fitted an EK block to my BFG8800 OC 768mb card, This is all in one 3/8 loop.

Temp wise all is cool CPU 38, MB 32, NB 43, SB 38 the only alarm being raised by PCprobe is voltage on FSBT,

The only probs I have had have been with Vista but not necessarly the board, the issues I have are with XFI Gamer and Time Bomb bug with 4GB ram and BFG card holding on to Thread or stuck in it, both of which are driver related I think.

I hope i'm not hijaking a thread here, just trying to give some feedback lol

[mXpS]

I think I'll be going with the P5E since I'm not going to be watercooling this system.

[T2k]

Judging on this very thread and this thread:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=160849
Maximus owners seams disappointed with theirs motherboards, and P5E owners are very pleased with theirs.

Dunno what makes you think that but read through this "official" Maximus SE topic and you'll see it's most certainly not the case.

[T2k]

Awsome, enjoy man, the new revision is a few posts back, on page 32-34 somewhere in there..........wich revision did you get? its right by the 1st pci-e slot, where it says maximus formula right under it to the right.

Mine is Rev1.02G - hmmm...

[GAR]

Mine is Rev1.02G - hmmm...

honestly my board is doing me very well, no problems, no major issues except for prime 95 not loading 100% after 1.5v....other than that i have no issues, it could just be a minor update, we just have to wait and see.

[GAR]

Dunno what makes you think that but read through this "official" Maximus SE topic and you'll see it's most certainly not the case.

I agree, most people are very happy with this board.

[btdvox]

Hi guys I need your help-

Im thinking of going Quad from my E6850- its a great cpu- But I cant OC it much anymore for some reason, I had a P5K Premium and it would run at 3.92 fine for about a month but then it wouldnt run that anymore- anyways i then had it at 3.84 and samething, so i thought it was mobo- bought maximus and still having same prob- so now i think id rather go 3.6 on a G0 Quad 6600.
It seems many people are doing this on this forum, Other specs i have is a crucial ballistix tracer 8500 ram 2GB and enermax galaxy 1000 dxx- I dont know if you need to know any other specs of mine. But can someone list what there using in there Bios to achieve this, I find this board has alot of voltage problems, i set 2.2 in vdimm and get 2.3, Vdroop is ok on this mobo- but even thigns like NB volt changes- so just want t know what you SET in bios and how your achieivng 3.6 on Q6600

Also Note I have a CM Stacker 832 with 9 fans and a thermalright ultra 120 extreme heatsink, so its a cool machine, im running NB and SB ruond 45 Degrees and CPU round 40 idle 50 Load when oc'd

Thanks for any help!!!

[Darkatom]

I agree, most people are very happy with this board.

Yup, got mine up and running last night. Updated the bios this morning and so far im blown away by this board.

[CERO]

Hey how are actually 4x1GB doing on the Maximus, I got atm some 2x1GB crucials but , price are so low now, I just wana get another kit. f.e the kit I got can do 1167 5-5-4-9 @ 2.05v and 1200 5-5-5-12 @ 2.05v, I just bought mine recently , but the prices dropped more from the same store I bought mine , if 4x1GB would clock near what I should achieve with 2x1GB I will get another pair, as those will be the same batch.

[JoeBar]

i upgraded from ip35pro to maximus and so far my feelings for that mobo are mixed...

pros: very good ram o/c
cons: limited fsb o/c (i lost ~15 fsb ),issues with certain memory dividers(4:5), mobo doesn't post with x-fi on the last pci
are there any tips to gain more fsb for quads?

using 0505bios

Has anyone with a X-Fi or another soundcard experienced this problem also?

[OverClocker_gr]

me from ip35 pro to maximus i gain 10 mhz of max fsb.
But this mobo clocks worst than the maximus.

At ip35 i was able to pass 3dmark06 with 6850 at 4240 very easy.

With maximus i hit a wall at 4130 with 1.57.At this speed ip35 pro want 1.6.
But 1more fsb ant nothing moves even if i set vcore to 1.8v.

I think its bios related.Iwould like so

[DeViTTo]

Hey how are actually 4x1GB doing on the Maximus, I got atm some 2x1GB crucials but , price are so low now, I just wana get another kit. f.e the kit I got can do 1167 5-5-4-9 @ 2.05v and 1200 5-5-5-12 @ 2.05v, I just bought mine recently , but the prices dropped more from the same store I bought mine , if 4x1GB would clock near what I should achieve with 2x1GB I will get another pair, as those will be the same batch.

Well I have the Ballistic BL2KIT12864AA1065 x 2 4GB working ok but had to losen timings a little tras to 18 rather than 15 seem to like 2v rather than 2.2v better.

No issues apart from Creative xfi time bomb bug in Vista (i.e all of a sudden get white noise after a while affects 4gb memory systems) Drivers suck from Creative for xfi)

What part no Crucial have you got? mine are rated PC8500 1066MHz runnimg at about 935mhz in bios but says 465mhz in cpuid (can someone explain that?divider is 1:1 and processor is @3720Mhz with 4651Mhz bus and 1860Mhz FSB. I have been running this 24/7 no probs.

Temps are cool on load CPU 48 MB 36 NB 48 SB 41 all watercooled including SB

[GAR]

Has anyone with a X-Fi or another soundcard experienced this problem also?

yes, my 4:5 divider doesnt work, and my x-fi is in the last slot, also 4:5 divider is slower than my 5:6....wierd.

[kup]

Hey how are actually 4x1GB doing on the Maximus, I got atm some 2x1GB crucials but , price are so low now, I just wana get another kit. f.e the kit I got can do 1167 5-5-4-9 @ 2.05v and 1200 5-5-5-12 @ 2.05v, I just bought mine recently , but the prices dropped more from the same store I bought mine , if 4x1GB would clock near what I should achieve with 2x1GB I will get another pair, as those will be the same batch.

Running 4x1GB Corsair 6400C4 DHX stuff, and can't seem to push past 450MHz with it. Used to run it @ 475MHz minimum in my Striker @ 2.3v...

I'm hoping it's the bios as I paid a lot for this ram (now I can buy the full 4Gb again for the price of 2GB at the time of buying :P) so I'm not looking to change it any time soon!!!

Asisde from that, i can't fault the board. It's pushed my Quad to 3.9GHz air cooled stable now, and the vDroop is non existant with my PC Power & Cooling 510w TurboCool SLi PSU. The PSU screeches while priming or OCCT but Folding 24/7 it's fine.

Just waiting for a new bios to show to true potential here and not make me wish I'd gone for a P35 board or stayed with my Striker a bit longer...?

[Leeghoofd]

Is there a problem installing a Ultra 120 Extreme cooler on this mobo?..

JH_man

It's just fits around the mosfets but it's doable, enough clearance between the heatsinks and the cooler, will take some piccies for ya. Here they are :

[JacKz5o]

Wow nice board

[Trice]

The new 505 bios says theres a User String for the LCD Probe deal instead of showing the time. Any idea how to mess with that?

[kup]

The new 505 bios says theres a User String for the LCD Probe deal instead of showing the time. Any idea how to mess with that?

I had a look at it, but it seems to give you the option to set a userstring, but not actually edit what that string is... The Striker used to enable the 'edit' option when you picked to use the UserString...?

[Leeghoofd]

Yeah I put in my name with the Striker no idea of this works here... board seems prety stable to me out of the box till now...

You guys all think 0505 is the best bios to use ?

[CERO]

Looks damm nice with that TRUE leefhoofd, I also ordered the maximus, mine would look similiar to yours, with the TRUE+ evga 8800GTS , cheers