ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[ChaosMinionX]

Can that slot run a PCIe x1 wireless card (abit AirPace)?

I have no way of testing that, but I imagine it would.

As a side note, Ive noticed contrary to the P5K Premium/Deluxe where DRAM static read control to enabled yielded the best performance, however setting Transaction booster to 1, and setting that one option to "strong" (name eludes me, its in that row of memory performance options. Its in the Asus guide as "Crazy" function) and it gets about 200-300 MB/s better in Everest benches, as well as a decrease of .2ns on latency.

Anyone know whats holding back the board from doing transaction boost 2? Perhaps someone has some more performance tweaks for this board, quite happy with it so far.

[SynGroW]

Anyone know whats holding back the board from doing transaction boost 2?

Transaction boost is setting the boards Performance Level.

Transaction boost isn't always setting directly the same PL with the 3 options it has. The PL differs with the divider you're using. When running 5:6 for example, transaction boost = 1 results in PL 8 (according to Memset), transaction boost = AUTO results in PL 10.

When you put transaction boost at 2 the board will run PL 7 or even 6 and for that reason, it won't work.

But when running 2:3 divider and transaction boost = 1, the PL is 10 for example and than transaction boost 2 will work.

The board relaxes the PL when you run a "higher" divider and you can re-adjust it with transaction booster.

[ChaosMinionX]

Transaction boost is setting the boards Performance Level.

Transaction boost isn't always setting directly the same PL with the 3 options it has. The PL differs with the divider you're using. When running 5:6 for example, transaction boost = 1 results in PL 8 (according to Memset), transaction boost = AUTO results in PL 10.

When you put transaction boost at 2 the board will run PL 7 or even 6 and for that reason, it won't work.

But when running 2:3 divider and transaction boost = 1, the PL is 10 for example and than transaction boost 2 will work.

The board relaxes the PL when you run a "higher" divider and you can re-adjust it with transaction booster.

Ahh, appreciate the info... .looks like its back to tweaking this board, anyone got some good secondary subtimings for ram?