ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[BulldogPO]

I´m testing tomorrow Maximus Formula with Q6600 B3 and Fusion Block connected.

[pippo369]

Dont forget it's a E6300... a 4MB CPU would easily do in the 13.X or even 12,9...

mmmm!! are you sure?
I'm waiting Loc.o results.

[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:

[jagt]

What's the maximum obtainable/stable FSB you're able to run with a quad core CPU?

[GLENBOY]

nice loco whats your first impressions of the board and how does previous 3dmarks compare with it on this board

thanks

glen

[Viss]

I have a full set of CF results on Commando with dual core at 3460mhz and 4400mhz. I wil try to compare them tonight with the quad at 3460 and only 2 cores enabled. I am a bit too bussy at the moment to test a lot, sorry for that.

What's the maximum obtainable/stable FSB you're able to run with a quad core CPU?

I only have 1 quad and only used it on this board. Max for 1M is 470FSB for now but thats most likely due to the cpu itself.

[GLENBOY]

thanks loco i know its hard to get on it takes a few days to get used to a new motherboard as well, i am not sure whether to plump for this board or wait doesn't seem to be much quicker the board itself that is, my e6850 is benchable at 4ghz plus on the old faithful p5w-dh which still is a quick board clock for clock (no good for quad though)

[WoutZoR]

Nice board. Would love to see some 3D benches with this board including 2 HD2900XT's since I got 2 of those card hooked up on a P5K Deluxe.
The thing I'm realy interested in is the performance gain of two 2 full 16X PCI-e lanes since the P5K series only support one 16X and one 4X when using CF.

For now the results are verry promising

[petervandamned]

Got this mobo 2
Was testing my nice E6850 on it but no boot
Well my QX6850 was next 9 x 400 was easy standard settings.
Running my 9200FLEXS 1:1 and a standard vindicator air cooler

going to test this weekend some more
chilled water/ MAch II / Dice or even LN2

[SynGroW]

Stil nothing spectaculair unfortunately. Have been struggling all night to get me Cellshock to run on 2/3 divider without luck. Im missing something

Already tried running in different memslots? might work (still have to test the difference here though)

[T2k]

mine this still in the box :| , havent even had time yet to realy look at it let alone fire it up.

Sell it for me then... mi payola big bux...

[Viss]

Ran CF on the maximus. Cannot run exact same settings unfortunately but difference remains rather big as far as GPU is concerned.

Commando
E6600 7x494 1/1 PMEM
Ballistix 4-4-4-10
2x2900XT stock
Cat 7.8

vs

Maximus
Q6600 (2 cores) 9x433 5/6
Ballistix 4-4-4-10 (520mhz)
2x2900XT stock
cat 7.9

Commando 06


Maximus 06


Commando 05


Maximus 05


Commando 03


Maximus 03 (Most GPU bound so obviously biggest gain)

[GLENBOY]

yeh loco seems it gives the graphics cards the extra bandwidth to fly as in 3d03 thats about on par to what i was getting on the 975x which is 8x/8x, nice going there and thanks for sharing your experiences with the board , do you like the board and any other major differences you've noticed

[hornet]

@loc.o

You are it use the NB passive or wc?

[Zeus]

That's quite some difference!

Is it possible the quad is having an advantage over the dualcore because of the extra cache?

[Viss]

@loc.o

You are it use the NB passive or wc?

No wc.

Tried me E6600. Same max FSB on air as on all the other boards i have tried.

7x550:


With ballistix:

8x500:


9x400:


32M:

[GLENBOY]

thanks loco , seems a good board and once a few bios updates come along it can only get better , i think the problem is p35 and the 965 was excellent anyway so x38 is an update rather than a massive upgrade , good inciteful posts loco anyway you know your way around the hardware

[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

[ChaosMinionX]

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

thanks

More than likely it is standard issue ASUS screens, still an AMI BIOS as far as I know, and yeah probably still uses JMicron.

[BulldogPO]

I took some photos:
http://picasaweb.google.fi/sunbulls/...mus_Formula_SE

[CornerJack]

Asus Maximus Formula installed No problem
First test for max FSB : 570 with E6850 1.5v in aircooling



CPU-Z validator : http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=250704

[hornet]

I took some photos:
http://picasaweb.google.fi/sunbulls/...mus_Formula_SE

Good pictures BulldogPO.

Do not you find that the fusion block cuts a little the stream?

[Leeghoofd]

Asus Maximus Formula installed No problem
First test for max FSB : 570 with E6850 1.5v in aircooling

CPU-Z validator : http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=250704

Go go Belgium :p