ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[MIS3]

NB is 51 celcius.

The same temperature as CPU. Is this idle or under load?

I recall that the according to Intel specs, the upper limit for the NB is 92C.

[GAR]

quick question fellas, wich do you think will give me a better performance overall, 413x9 = 3.717ghz with mem @ 550 with a bandwidth of 9050, or 450x8 = 3.6ghz mem at 540 with a bandwidth of 9300..........wich would you keep??? thanks.

[krifosjen]

The same temperature as CPU. Is this idle or under load?

I recall that the according to Intel specs, the upper limit for the NB is 92C.

thats 3 secs. after 3d-gaming-load. testet twice.

BTW, CPU is not up that high. usually 29c after gaming. Its 51 when running Orthos, prime95 and SuperPi same time - at max.

[CERO]

quick question fellas, wich do you think will give me a better performance overall, 413x9 = 3.717ghz with mem @ 550 with a bandwidth of 9050, or 450x8 = 3.6ghz mem at 540 with a bandwidth of 9300..........wich would you keep??? thanks.

hmz I think cpu speed would benefit more over ram performance? I could be wrong tho.

[krifosjen]

about the 1.9v at my ram. What does that mean?

[MIS3]

thats 3 secs. after 3d-gaming-load. testet twice.

BTW, CPU is not up that high. usually 29c after gaming. Its 51 when running Orthos, prime95 and SuperPi same time - at max.

29C is great temperature for the CPU. Which CPU and CPU cooler are you using?

[krifosjen]

29C is great temperature for the CPU. Which CPU and CPU cooler are you using?

my cpu is Q6600 g0. Held low by ThermalRight 120 Extreme.

[loften]

myself i would keep the one that performs the best for the longest on a hot day after extreme load/gaming..

[TheSamurai]

You have a better cpu.

I have confirmed that this issues is current related...a decrease in temps made it go away. Also, an increase in temps @ lower voltage made it happen, but only over 1.425 for me.

I think, if we look at the VID of these cpu's, alot would be obvious...assuming that Intel is accurate in TDP rating, my cpu consumes 105w @ 1.2375v, 2.4ghz.

So, Amps x Volts= Watts, or Watts/Voltage = Amps. So at stock, my cpu consumes 84a @ 1.2375v.


What's your vid? If it is higher, your cpu will consume less Amps, ergo you would run into the issue @ higher voltage than I do. I bet GAR's VID is higher too...


Now, I tohught it was current form the start...and that has not changed, obviously, however remedying the situation is not something I can do...as these cpu's I have do not exhibit this behavior on other boards. It would seem like I would need an OVP mod for the board before I could overcome this...or to identify the driver/dll responsible for the system process acting this way. I'll be trying to figure this out today...

i'm a noob, what's VID? is there anything you would like me to check with my setup (no system reformats though lol)? i'm more then glad to help out figuring out these issues.

[ChaosMinionX]

Newest BIOS settings.

BIOS 0505
Extreme Tweaker
Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 8
FSB Frequency :450
FSB Strap to North Bridge :AUTO
PCI-E Frequency: 120
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-900
DRAM Command Rate : 2T
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency : 4
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 4
RAS# Precharge : 4
RAS# ActivateTime : 10
RAS# to RAS# Delay : 3
Row Refresh Cycle Time : 25
Write Recovery Time : 3
Read to Precharge Time : 3

Read to Write Delay (S/D) : 7
Write to Read Delay (S) : 3
Write to Read Delay (D) : 5
Read to Read Delay (S) : 4
Read to Read Delay (D) : 6
Write to Write Delay (S) : 4
Write to Write Delay (D) : 6
DRAM Static Read Control: ENABLED
Ai Clock Twister : STRONG
Transaction Booster : ENABLED (1)

CPU Voltage : 1.4250v
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.5v
North Bridge Voltage : 1.49v
DRAM Voltage : 2.08v
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.4v
South Bridge Voltage : AUTO
Loadline Calibration : ENABLED
CPU GTL Reference : .63x
North Bridge GTL Reference : .67x
DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Controller REF Voltage : AUTO
SB 1.5V Voltage : AUTO

NB LED Selection : NB Volt
SB LED Selection : SB Volt
CPU LED Selection : CPU VOlt
Voltiminder LED : ENABLED

CPU Spread Spectrum : Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum : Disabled


PLL/DRAM overvolt by .1-.14v about so adjusted to compensate. This is stable thus far 24hr Blend priority9

Hope it helps someone.

[CrackaBoi]

these are my settings under bios

fsb frequ: 425
fsb strap: auto
pcie frequ: 110
ddram frequ: 1021
dram command: auto
dram timing: manual
4-5-5-14
rest auto
dram static: auto
ai clock twister: auto
transaction boost: auto
cpu volts: 1.55
cpu pll: 1.76
nb: 1.75
dram: 2.2
fsb termination: 1.4
sb: 1.175
loadline: enabled
cpu gtl: .63x
nb gtl: .67
ddr2 channel a: auto
b: auto
ddr2 controller: auto
sb 1.5: auto
cpu spread: disabled
pcie spread: disabled

hope this helps you guys out...honestly this freakin board is rock solid @ these settings i honestly have never had such ease of overclocking a cpu than with this mobo and as bios updates come out it will only get better!!! i seriously love my desicion to buy this thing!!! with my 680 i i couldnt even get over 3.45 with this same cpu...honestly amazing!!



edit my memory divider is 5:6 according to cpuz

Thanks, that is wonderful. I can't get mine stable at 425 with those settings though. I tried upping the voltages with no luck. Did you experience that raising any particular voltage limited your OC compared to a lower voltage?

I have Reaper PC9200 memory. Can anyone give me some suggestions on mem settings to try in order to get a higher OC? My men should handle speeds close to 600..

thanks

[bill_d]

have this mb on order with a q6600 g0 and G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 1000 what setting do i have to change for no oc
coming from a commando i had to set my corsair 8500c5's
to (5-5-5-15) 2.2v manually or it would eat them

or can set all to auto
thanks

[CERO]

PLL/DRAM overvolt by .1-.14v about so adjusted to compensate

Hey alex is that Asus Probe readout or by a Dimm? Or is Asus probe pretty accurate?

[Leeghoofd]

have this mb on order with a q6600 g0 and G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 1000 what setting do i have to change for no oc
coming from a commando i had to set my corsair 8500c5's
to (5-5-5-15) 2.2v manually or it would eat them

or can set all to auto
thanks

I have the same ram mate, works pretty fine on all the baords I have tested so far , not much to change just ram frequency and voltage for ram, be carefull the baord overvolts the ram , works fine here at 2.0 setting, if it doesn't boot disable static read control... Board OC's fine to 450FSB ( keep ram at 900mhz ) Nb at 1.35,...

Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 9
FSB Frequency :AUTO
FSB Strap to North Bridge :AUTO
PCI-E Frequency: 101
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-1000
DRAM Command Rate : AUTO
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency : 5
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 5
RAS# Precharge : 5
RAS# ActivateTime : 15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : AUTO
Row Refresh Cycle Time : AUTO
Write Recovery Time : AUTO
Read to Precharge Time : AUTO

Read to Write Delay (S/D) : AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S) : AUTO
Write to Read Delay (D) : AUTO
Read to Read Delay (S) : AUTO
Read to Read Delay (D) : AUTO
Write to Write Delay (S) : AUTO
Write to Write Delay (D) : AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
Ai Clock Twister : AUTO
Transaction Booster : AUTO

CPU Voltage : AUTO
CPU PLL Voltage : AUTO
North Bridge Voltage : AUTO
DRAM Voltage : 2.0 (board overvolts so you will end up around 2.04)
FSB Termination Voltage : AUTO
South Bridge Voltage : AUTO
Loadline Calibration : ENABLED
CPU GTL Reference : AUTO
North Bridge GTL Reference : AUTO
DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Controller REF Voltage : AUTO
SB 1.5V Voltage : AUTO

[Leeghoofd]

I see you guys going all high on the NB voltages, pretty high to me, I can run 450FSB with only 1.35 on the NB,... though I have to disable static read control then in the bios otherwise it will reboot when loading windows, though the CPU is fine at 3.6 ( so 450 x 8 and ram at 900mhz then ), haven't primed it (yet) but folds on all 4 cores at 100% ( better use of power then useless Prime to me) and has shown no hickups when gaming or sortlike...

Anyone share to update me on the NB voltages ?

Is there much advantage to gain

[cuke2u]

Hi, I've just installed water cooling but is it normal for my motherboard and CPU temps to reported as extremely high by both probe and everest? At the moment I'm running Prime and my CPU core temps are between 48-52c but my CPU temps shows 218c and my motherboard temps is 199c, lol it's going to catch fire
Thanks...
ChrisC

[DeViTTo]

I dont know if this will help someone but most of my settings are at AUTO, achieves 3.74ghz stable, have clocked BFG8800GTX cards from stock OC standard to 640Mhz Core 1000Mhz (effective 2000Mhz) with Riva Tuner.

achieves
3dMark20001 66595
3DMark06 14415

Have been running 24/7 last three days, Under load Temps reach 55 GPU and 50 max on everything else, probably because watercooling all in one loop.

Has anyone got any suggestions as to how i can improve on this. I have been looking at MemSet but have not used it as yet. I would be interested to know Loco what timings and what dividers you are now achieving with the Ballisitic Sticks you have?

I have a lot of probs in Vista with 8800 keeps coming up with Stuck in Thread Error, I just hope driver maturity will rectify this. Anyone else any problems with this board and 8800 and Vista?


BIOS 0504
Extreme Tweaker
Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 8
FSB Frequency :466
FSB Strap to North Bridge :AUTO
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-1120
DRAM Command Rate : AUTO
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency : 5
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 5
RAS# Precharge : 5
RAS# ActivateTime : 15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : AUTO
Row Refresh Cycle Time : AUTO
Write Recovery Time : AUTO
Read to Precharge Time : AUTO

Read to Write Delay (S/D) : AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S) : AUTO
Write to Read Delay (D) : AUTO
Read to Read Delay (S) : AUTO
Read to Read Delay (D) : AUTO
Write to Write Delay (S) : AUTO
Write to Write Delay (D) : AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: AUTO
Ai Clock Twister : AUTO
Transaction Booster : DISABLED (AUTO) cant rem but default

CPU Voltage :AUTO
CPU PLL Voltage : AUTO
North Bridge Voltage : AUTO
DRAM Voltage : 2.00v
FSB Termination Voltage : AUTO
South Bridge Voltage : AUTO
Loadline Calibration : AUTO
CPU GTL Reference : AUTO
North Bridge GTL Reference : AUTO
DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Controller REF Voltage : AUTO
SB 1.5V Voltage : AUTO

NB LED Selection : NB Volt
SB LED Selection : SB Volt
CPU LED Selection : CPU VOlt
Voltiminder LED : ENABLED

CPU Spread Spectrum : Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum : Disabled

[mhdabiad]

Hi to all, subscribed.

Got mine two days ago, immediately upgraded to 505.
The board is Maximazing! I'm Loving it. (Asus Fanatic ).
With the right bios this thing will fly, who needs DFI or Gigabyte DQ/noIQ!.

Right now I'm just waiting for newer bios,, early next month maybe.

[Wiggy McShades]

i just changed to the 505 bios from the shipped 401 and wow i have to say every voltage is over by .1 to .13 except cpu vcore and the sb voltages. be careful flashing to this bios if you had settings from the original bios they most likely wont work.

[Rapid7]

Anybody got an Auzentech Prelude running with this board & Vista X64?

As for the life of me i can't get it to work,the driver & software installs ok but when i double click the "Console Launcher" or "Audio Console" icons i get the following error.

"Unable to find audio device.Please make sure that your audio device is enabled & installed with it's driver"

Or

"This software is not compatable with the installed device"

In device manager the driver is installed & has no yellow question mark next to it?

[CyberDruid]

@ChaosMinionX

Have you tried to run stable at lower chipset voltages?

[ZilverPhish]

Is this THE last ddr2 board to own? Just nuked my commando.

[ChaosMinionX]

@ChaosMinionX

Have you tried to run stable at lower chipset voltages?

That was the lowest I could get with my ram timings/speed and running 4GB of it.

I am having a problem recently after 1 of my sticks died, that when I restart in windows the overclock fails for some reason, and the comp double boots to let me change it so it works...never ever had this happen before, would it be possible my other RAM is damaged but not erroring in memtest? Just a shot in the dark I suppose.

[ShawnTRD]

Anyone know of a good way to set up a couple fans for the NB and SB without removing the heatsinks it came with? I'm not ready to do water cooling yet, but when I do I'm thinking about the ZALMAN RESERATOR 1.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118111

What does everyone think about the ZALMAN RESERATOR 1?

[Wiggy McShades]

Newest BIOS settings.

BIOS 0505
Extreme Tweaker
Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 8
FSB Frequency :450
FSB Strap to North Bridge :AUTO
PCI-E Frequency: 120
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-900
DRAM Command Rate : 2T
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency : 4
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 4
RAS# Precharge : 4
RAS# ActivateTime : 10
RAS# to RAS# Delay : 3
Row Refresh Cycle Time : 25
Write Recovery Time : 3
Read to Precharge Time : 3

Read to Write Delay (S/D) : 7
Write to Read Delay (S) : 3
Write to Read Delay (D) : 5
Read to Read Delay (S) : 4
Read to Read Delay (D) : 6
Write to Write Delay (S) : 4
Write to Write Delay (D) : 6
DRAM Static Read Control: ENABLED
Ai Clock Twister : STRONG
Transaction Booster : ENABLED (1)

CPU Voltage : 1.4250v
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.5v
North Bridge Voltage : 1.49v
DRAM Voltage : 2.08v
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.4v
South Bridge Voltage : AUTO
Loadline Calibration : ENABLED
CPU GTL Reference : .63x
North Bridge GTL Reference : .67x
DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Controller REF Voltage : AUTO
SB 1.5V Voltage : AUTO

NB LED Selection : NB Volt
SB LED Selection : SB Volt
CPU LED Selection : CPU VOlt
Voltiminder LED : ENABLED

CPU Spread Spectrum : Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum : Disabled


PLL/DRAM overvolt by .1-.14v about so adjusted to compensate. This is stable thus far 24hr Blend priority9

Hope it helps someone.

what bandwidth are you pulling off with those timmings and speeds if you don't mind me asking.