ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[SynGroW]

Very interested in the results..... would love to see some work with DDR2 800 3-3-3-6 compared to 1000 DDR2 4-4-4-12 if that is at all possible with any of your sticks

DDR800 (1:1 divider) CL3-3-3-6:



DDR1000 (4:5 divider) CL4-4-4-12



Tests done with sub-timings set to manual (but with stock subtimings, so pretty loose)
Untweaked Win2K3

Summary:

CL3 1M: 20.047
CL4 1M: 19.735

CL3 8M: 3m49.547
CL4 8M: 3m43.797

DDR1000 CL4 is faster than DDR800 CL3

[ChaosMinionX]

DDR800 (1:1 divider) CL3-3-3-6:



DDR1000 (4:5 divider) CL4-4-4-12



Tests done with sub-timings set to manual (but with stock subtimings, so pretty loose)
Untweaked Win2K3

Summary:

CL3 1M: 20.047
CL4 1M: 19.735

CL3 8M: 3m49.547
CL4 8M: 3m43.797

DDR1000 CL4 is faster than DDR800 CL3

Thanks a ton for that SynGroW, really appreciate you taking the time to do that, would appear X38 isnt exactly like 975x where I was getting better speeds with cas3 800, over cas4 1000.

Guess that clears that up, cant wait to get my hands on a maximus.

EDIT: Any idea on the latency differences between the 2 settings?

[SynGroW]

EDIT: Any idea on the latency differences between the 2 settings?

Should be the same since I have put every setting on manual and at the SPD value for both runs. Only changed the first 4 settings.

It might be possible that the board changes some latency's because of running a different divider but I can't check that.

[Machinus]

I am dying to see testing of the air-cooled version of this board vs. P5K Premium

[GLENBOY]

come on loco get that hd2900 fired up, whats your first impressions of the board

[SynGroW]

Ok, some first tests:

CPU vcore is undervolted by ~0,05v (difference between bios setting and CPUz)
DRAM voltage is overvolted by ~0,1v (difference between bios setting and bios monitoring)
vPLL voltage is overvolting by ~0,1v (difference between bios setting and bios monitoring)

Also vcore is dropping by 0,015v under load with load line calibration enabled according to CPUz.

Will check these results later with a DMM.

Now some overclocking:

Setup:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 ES cooled by OCZ Vindicator
Asus Maximus Formula
OCZ DDR2 PC2-9200 FlexXLC
Asus 8600GT Silent
OCZ Powerstream 520W

Max. FSB @ vPLL 2.3v

550MHz increasing vPLL increases max. FSB, so this result is CPU limited (validator link)

Max. mem @ 2.7v

700MHz CL5-6-6-21 (validator link)

It seems that the memory isn't running as great as it did on my P5K. I can run 1m at the same speed on my P5K with only 2.55v (bios setting) but with different subtimings.

Also a 1M run:

14.640s this run is also vPLL limited (forgot to make a validation file, will do that next time)

[GLENBOY]

nice info syngrow and nice fsb

[pippo369]

Also a 1M run:

14.640s this run is also vPLL limited (forgot to make a validation file, will do that next time)

The time is very bad for this frequency, can you run memset, i would like to see the subtimings for this setup.

[dj883u2]

The time is very bad for this frequency, can you run memset, i would like to see the subtimings for this setup.

Pippuzzo...che stai dicendo...ha una E6300...non un E6600 con 4mb di cache L2!
Il tempo va bene!
Ciao

[Viss]

Stil nothing spectaculair unfortunately. Have been struggling all night to get me Cellshock to run on 2/3 divider without luck. Im missing something The Q6600 (L731B163) seems to do rather nice on air though. Ill try another set of mem tonight and/or put in a dual core. Crossfire soon, this is single card all air:

[Speederlander]

The time is very bad for this frequency, can you run memset, i would like to see the subtimings for this setup.

It's an e6300 though it does seem somewhat slow...

[Sem]

does this use the jmicron controller for IDE
does it add an extra boot screen so it can detect the drives?

thanks