ASUS Maximus V Forumla/Extreme Official Support Thread

[tipes]

Yes, C-Media needed lots of time to code drivers and software, so the development time did not fit inline with the product launch. A lot of these companies are far smaller than you think. While lots of people roll their eyes at Realtek, they generally need a lot less time than everyone else to get a driver up and running.

Maybe true, but quickest is not always best. Have yet to test my audio, but I am sure it will be fine. If not I can always put my Xonar D2X back in

Mark

[Raja@ASUS]

Maybe true, but quickest is not always best. Have yet to test my audio, but I am sure it will be fine. If not I can always put my Xonar D2X back in

Mark

Quickest is not always best may be true, but having to wait 9 months more for the board to launch and then perhaps the same time for any needed driver updates was not workable for us. When a game does not work right, you try telling the hordes that it was "the better option" or that fastest is not always best :P

[pociej]

Maybe this board will answer for you

P8Z77-V PREMIUM >> http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Int...8Z77V_PREMIUM/

i can confirm for this board it will can running 16x + 16x for 1st and 3rd slot

btw. I think that actually it is not necessary for 16x + 16x because however CPU will have max bandwidth for Graphic pci-express only 16 lane
but if looking to X79 mobo it have more choice for you because CPU have bandwidth for GFX 32 lane

Like I said,
I don't want to put card into slot 1 (which I can do on all mobos) because I will have not enough space to make connection ram -> gpu 1.
It's all about tube routing for my liquid cooling build...

And according to article comparing x8 vs x16 it's just few percents/few fps on single card but I still want them, it can be more in SLI.

[zanzabar]

Quickest is not always best may be true, but having to wait 9 months more for the board to launch and then perhaps the same time for any needed driver updates was not workable for us. When a game does not work right, you try telling the hordes that it was "the better option" or that fastest is not always best :P

dose it really take them almost a year for a driver from c-media. that would explain why they were supposed to have tapped out a new chip for native pci-e months ago, but it is not out yet in anything. what about via are they still viable for sound or are they just making integrated systems for atms again.

what audio chip is in the thunderfx external box?

Like I said,
I don't want to put card into slot 1 (which I can do on all mobos) because I will have not enough space to make connection ram -> gpu 1.
It's all about tube routing for my liquid cooling build...

And according to article comparing x8 vs x16 it's just few percents/few fps on single card but I still want them, it can be more in SLI.

running fake 16x16 dose not offer more than native 8x8, the only time it shows that is running a higher end board with tighter defaults over a loose cheap board or back in the day when the g80 would not work on an 8x buss. and for 1 card there is the blackish slot that comes from the chipset. or you could go with the 2nd and bottom slot on the plx and have it be useful and split the bandwidth so the gpu stays at about 16x all day. the formula looks like it has more space with the ram so maybe go with that? it also has 1x slots.

[Splave]

x8 2.0 is you may loose 1 fps lol do not worry about

[tipes]

Quickest is not always best may be true, but having to wait 9 months more for the board to launch and then perhaps the same time for any needed driver updates was not workable for us. When a game does not work right, you try telling the hordes that it was "the better option" or that fastest is not always best :P

Hi Raja,

I was only really teasing you - but it is always a compromise between getting to market in reasonable time to satisfy - or taking too long in
an effort to get everything spot on. In some ways this is the problem with our ultra competitive world we have today. We are always treading that fine line.

Keep up the good work Raja - it is appreciated - at least by me anyway. Lol.

Mark

[Raja@ASUS]

dose it really take them almost a year for a driver from c-media. that would explain why they were supposed to have tapped out a new chip for native pci-e months ago, but it is not out yet in anything. what about via are they still viable for sound or are they just making integrated systems for atms again.

what audio chip is in the thunderfx external box?

No other solution was viable for onboard - none of them had the packages we needed ready on time for the motherboard chipsets we could use (they quoted us 9 months+). We even tried Wolfson, I have an early MVF sample board here with the chipset and it did not work out, unfortunately. That just goes to showhow hard we tried.

For ThunderFX we got C-Media as we'd already put the work in on the Phoebus. Had C-Media of been able to deliver what we needed for the onboard we would have used them there, too.

[zanzabar]

No other solution was viable for onboard - none of them had the packages we needed ready on time for the motherboard chipsets we could use (they quoted us 9 months+). We even tried Wolfson, I have an early MVF sample board here with the chipset and it did not work out, unfortunately. That just goes to showhow hard we tried.

For ThunderFX we got C-Media as we'd already put the work in on the Phoebus. Had C-Media of been able to deliver what we needed for the onboard we would have used them there, too.

i cannot wait to get my board and try the onboard, i really like that there is spdif in and a headphone amp, that was getting me thinking that i should not need a sound card (and since there are no pci i am looking forward to retiring my sba2 plat pro, it lasted 10 years but the drivers just did not work well with the mic in 64bit.)

[OC Nub]

Loving this Extreme board, G.Skill RipjawsZ F3-1700CL9 4x4gb at 2800mhz 1.75vdimm. 0020 bios is working well, much easier getting back into bios using delete key.

[OC Nub]

Another try today at 2900mhz 4x4gb RipjawsZ F3-1700cl9 @1452c11 1.85vdimm, real loose subtimings, w7-64

[OC Nub]

Transcend 2x2g 1200c10 at 1417mhz, w7-6

[Dumo]

Awesome run with 0020 bios OC

The transcends finally wake up

[OC Nub]

Thanks!

All my kits are waking up tonight lol. Still playing with memory, its become addictive.

[century child]

A quick question for you Raja: Will the 11.2 Intel RST driver allow for TRIM passthrough with RAID0 on this board? If not it will be a dealbreaker for me.

[Xero99]

From what I have been reading it will. The new RST drivers was only for the Z77 chipset until 24 hours ago when it was announced that they will be made available for the x79. Unless someone else knows any different.

Also I recently upgraded to the new 704 bios and now my 2700 is no longer stable past 4.8ghz, where as on the 604 bios it was stable at 5.0ghz. Anyone else having this issue? Needless to say im now back on the 604 @ 5.0ghz

[mike]

In order to change BCLK with RCtweakit - I remember reading that somethng in bios needs to be enabled - C1E ?

[LardArse]

mike, you need to install 'rog connect plus' on the pc to be tweaked for bclk changes.

[McDown]

Hey guys are both Formulas using the same bios?

[Dumo]

0020 with psc air

[Don_Dan]

It's interesting to see that your XMD kit is also a bit weak on tRP, but still a nice run. How much Vdimm was needed? What's the production date of your kit?

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

It's interesting to see that your XMD kit is also a bit weak on tRP, but still a nice run. How much Vdimm was needed? What's the production date of your kit?

Pretty sure it was 1.96vdimm from KP Cooling, not sure about the production date, but still it is nice to see 2400 7-11-7 32m stable.

[DEFLORATOR]

Great info raja and great support.

If you are between formula and extreme, psc goes about 25-50mhz higher clocks on the extreme due to it's design and extra pcb layers

Raja, can you confirm this please? That M5E has more PCB layers than M5F (and M5G probably as well)?
CPU VRM of all 3 boards looks identical in major part.

[Don_Dan]

Pretty sure it was 1.96vdimm from KP Cooling, not sure about the production date, but still it is nice to see 2400 7-11-7 32m stable.

Thanks, now I saw it was 1.96V in the 5GHz 32M thread.

[Dumo]

Thanks, now I saw it was 1.96V in the 5GHz 32M thread.

Yep, it was 1.96 Don. I like this kit

2600 cas7 air

[jax7480]

Since I'm waiting for my MVF today, does anyone know what OROM the board has with the latest BIOS?

Thanks in advance