On Air......not Maxed Out Yet....

[Sampsa]

The Blitz Extreme PAIRED with the York has some problems.... We HAD to boot at -50*C and not lower coz it didn't boot.....OK I got used to it during my benching session at my place.....
Now if we go into windows and we have -145*C and we have a freeze or a crash of a bench, TWO things are hapening:
a. mobo REBOOTS and goes into windows and everything is OK and
b. mobo SHUTS DOWN and then it powers up...
If b. happens, we have to WAIT 1/2 hour to warm up to -50*C so we can boot again.... It doesn't boot until it reaches that temp....This is a pain in the arss and you pray that during a crash, mobo to reboot and not shut down....

Asus Maximus Formula and Yorkfield. Use hair dryer or heat gun



When Kingpin's Dragon pot hit -60C, system booted fine. In Windows and under 3DMark06 -150C was no problem at all.

[blossa]

Sampsa: I did not know you people from Finland enjoyed Heinekken.

[eva2000]

Lucky the P5E3 WS Pro likes the cold and yorky

Sampsa, LOL hair dryer... never leave home without one

[over@locker886]

Asus Maximus Formula and Yorkfield. Use hair dryer or heat gun

When Kingpin's Dragon pot hit -60C, system booted fine. In Windows and under 3DMark06 -150C was no problem at all.

My first post here

Hmm, I have same problem with P5K . Heineken is important

hipro5:Finally, You got a gift I wait my gift.. H

Hipro5, Shamino,Kingpin: Insane results Good luck! Keep pushing!

[Zeus]

Geez, you guys have had your share of bad luck.

Sorry to hear it worked out that bad, i understood humidity was causing plenty of condensation problems as well.

If it rains it poors.

What was the reason for firing up that Striker? Running SLI?
No real surprise this board was causing some headache i have to say.

Good to hear you are prepping that P5E, booting into windows at -103C at 5590MHz is a very nice starting point.

Good luck and don't forget to have fun along the way.

[nachthymnen]

Can't wait for the new scores!

[JMKS]

Heh, so it seems like a not only rare issue - coldboot problems with Maximus Formula and Blitz Extreme while Penryn in LGA...
I had those problems too, one week ago - no boot when negative temperatures [DI-benching] [not like -50°C coldboot, just like 0°C - on-the-fly -70°C was OK, but any reboot was impossible... - the same Blitz Extreme two weeks earlier was running fine with LN2, boot @ -150° etc], after hours of fighting the solution was: use Giga X38-DQ6 DDR2 - no problems at all , boot @ -78°C without any issues.

[results will be posted later , although it was "just" a ~4,2GHz air CPU, not a 4,8GHz monster...]

It's good if it is "only" BIOS-related but who cares WHAT it is [until they release adequate BIOS], the result is [in my case] DDR2 instead of DDR3 and Windows installed on Maximus used with Giga [that made my 16M look so crappy... ].

Laying in the corner: Maximus Formula, beyond was Blitz Extreme; both useless in that case.

[Sampsa]

Sampsa: I did not know you people from Finland enjoyed Heinekken.

Only beer Intel Sweden had in fridge

[NH|Delph1]

Yes it's the same....With QX6850 it boots up to -140*C......With this York, it boots MAX at -50*C.....It's a pain in the arss to make a bench....You have to play it at a frequency that it's fully stable (5605MHz) and make sure that it won't crash your VGA on a bench....
When this happens and it REBOOTS , it's OK booting at -145*C
BUT IF it shut's down, you're scrwed........You have to wait till the temp goes up to -50*C again.....
Guys from ASUS have sent me a newer beta bios so to "recognise" York BUT acts the same......
THANK GOD with P5E3 WS Pro, it cold boots at -130*C.... and right now I'm spraying it, unsolder/solder components and insulating it so to finally bench with it easy....
YES it needs a bios update for sure and I think it'll be OK....

Like sampsa said, it worked similarly for us

Bios 1401 for Striker, LEAVES the York's multi at ONLY x6 no matter if you change it or not.....

ASUS should be ashamed
But then again I can't really remember when/if the last time 680i was actually easy and fun to bench with...

//Andreas

[BeardyMan]

Only beer Intel Sweden had in fridge

That's sad really Jupiler,duvel,Stella >>>heineken by far lol

[hey]

TWO things are hapening:
a. mobo REBOOTS and goes into windows and everything is OK and
b. mobo SHUTS DOWN and then it powers up...
If b. happens, we have to WAIT 1/2 hour to warm up to -50*C so we can boot again.... It doesn't boot until it reaches that temp....This is a pain in the arss and you pray that during a crash, mobo to reboot and not shut down....

i think that a and b is completely the same problem when we had with cedar mills and prescots . cpu-mobo acts together in that case . while one cpu has this cold with the mobo ,it does not have it with another mobo or have at different temps ; and the same batch cpu could not have this problem with the same mobo . this cold was totally depended on specific cpu-mobo relation . if your case is the same , i dont think bios modification will help ,try different mobo or cpu

[BenchZowner]

ASUS should be ashamed

Definitely not the first time or reason for them to be ashamed.
I'm starting to think that they like that particular feeling.
P5W DH Deluxe...only 5 memory timings in BIOS, Locked ( Upwards ) Multiplier for all Extreme Edition CPUs after BIOS v1601 { Multiple times reported issue, ignorance gained }, Limited multi on commando, capacitor syndrome...worst tech support ever...oh well... the list is probably big enough to fit the max post char count

[LoWRiDeR]

Hi, sorry for digging up this thread after so long but i'm looking for a core2extreme to replace my q9450. Is it better to go for QX9770 or QX9650 would give same results? What model number should I look for? SLAWN or SLAN3 (or something like that?) Thanks in advance for your tips and if anyone is interested in selling such a processor msg me! (i'm greek by the way congrats hipro eisai paixtis!)