ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[ChaosMinionX]

What program did you use to test????

Used everest, compared all settings from 0505 to 0602 and the ram had less performance.

EDIT: Vista restart still results in a failed Overclock.

[mXpS]

anyone know why my ps/2 keyboard doesn't respond with this motherboard? they keyboard lights up and is functional but when i try to type in an application, the program freezes and causes it not to respond

[sdumper]

Guys i just picked one of these up to play with on phase but dont want to use water and phase because it will be too loud for my prime rig.

I currently run my Q6600 G0 at 480x9 with my blackpearl (p5k premium) on phase with my NB air cooled.

Will I be able to hit 480 FSB on the maximus with water cooling the chipset?

[GAR]

Guys i just picked one of these up to play with on phase but dont want to use water and phase because it will be too loud for my prime rig.

I currently run my Q6600 G0 at 480x9 with my blackpearl (p5k premium) on phase with my NB air cooled.

Will I be able to hit 480 FSB on the maximus with water cooling the chipset?

it is very posible. good luck!!!

[TouGe]

Okay, I couldn't get a multi of 9 to work at all on this board, no matter what voltage and FSB I tried.

I tried the following for 400x9, RAM @ 1003MHz 5-5-5-9 (subtimmings auto):
Vcore: 1.47V up to 1.5V
CPU PLL: 1.64V
NB: 1.51V up to 1.55V
DRAM: 2.1V (2.2V in BIOS)
FSB: 1.4V
SB: 1.15V
CPU/NB GTL: Auto

I then lowered my FSB down to 350MHz and I still could not boot into windows.

Then I tried to see how far I could go with a multi of 11x and I was able to reach 11x335MHz w/ similar voltages listed above w/ RAM @ ~1000MHz same timmings.

Could some one explain why I can't reach 3.6GHz (9x400) but I can reach 3.685GHz (11x335)?

[DeViTTo]

I have found in my testing that for me 450x8 gives better performance and higher scores in benchmarks compared to 400x9. This runs my cpu at the same speed but my ram is running 1081 when using the 8 divider and it is 1066 when using 9 divider. CPU benchies are higher with the 8 divider, which leads me to believe that these q6600's like higher fsb's.

The reason I ask about your ram speeds is because when you are running a divider of 8, what voltages do you have set for the ram because I can't get stable with that divider for some reason. I would like 450 or 445x8 but it is not happening.

I use 2.0V for ram on that divider everthing else on AUTO voltage wise. I'm going to go back to 466 x 8 and try different voltage and maybe raise the bus a bit.

[Xiph]

anyone know why my ps/2 keyboard doesn't respond with this motherboard? they keyboard lights up and is functional but when i try to type in an application, the program freezes and causes it not to respond

Did you install Asus AI suite from dvd? That version has bug. Update it from Asus web site.

[Leeghoofd]

Okay, I couldn't get a multi of 9 to work at all on this board, no matter what voltage and FSB I tried.

I tried the following for 400x9, RAM @ 1003MHz 5-5-5-9 (subtimmings auto):
Vcore: 1.47V up to 1.5V
CPU PLL: 1.64V
NB: 1.51V up to 1.55V
DRAM: 2.1V (2.2V in BIOS)
FSB: 1.4V
SB: 1.15V
CPU/NB GTL: Auto

I then lowered my FSB down to 350MHz and I still could not boot into windows.

Then I tried to see how far I could go with a multi of 11x and I was able to reach 11x335MHz w/ similar voltages listed above w/ RAM @ ~1000MHz same timmings.

Could some one explain why I can't reach 3.6GHz (9x400) but I can reach 3.685GHz (11x335)?

It seems depending on your settings for tranaction booster and static read control the voltages for the NB vary enormously... Most users here are at 1.6 NB voltage... I'm at 1.32 for 400FSB with my Q6600@3200 but I disabled the transaction booster and set level 1 ( static read control is enabled and jields for me slightly higher bandwith at 400FSB/1003 ram speeds )... can you try that if it helps to improve ya stability... those are pretty tight timings you are running there... by the way running 2 x 2 Gskills PC8000 ram ( so not 4 dimms )

[mXpS]

Did you install Asus AI suite from dvd? That version has bug. Update it from Asus web site.

Alright, that worked. Thanks man.

Another question for you, how do I disable the BIOS from looking for a master IDE hdd? I only have SATA drives in this system, so obviously it wont be able to find one. Every time I reboot it, it halts the startup, it gives me the warning that it cant find one and then I have to press f1 to continue. Its not too big of a deal but it gets annoying after a while. Thanks for your help.

[cuke2u]

Alright, that worked. Thanks man.

Another question for you, how do I disable the BIOS from looking for a master IDE hdd? I only have SATA drives in this system, so obviously it wont be able to find one. Every time I reboot it, it halts the startup, it gives me the warning that it cant find one and then I have to press f1 to continue. Its not too big of a deal but it gets annoying after a while. Thanks for your help.

Hi, turn off jmicron in the bios...
Chris

[TheSamurai]

Okay, I couldn't get a multi of 9 to work at all on this board, no matter what voltage and FSB I tried.

I tried the following for 400x9, RAM @ 1003MHz 5-5-5-9 (subtimmings auto):
Vcore: 1.47V up to 1.5V
CPU PLL: 1.64V
NB: 1.51V up to 1.55V
DRAM: 2.1V (2.2V in BIOS)
FSB: 1.4V
SB: 1.15V
CPU/NB GTL: Auto

I then lowered my FSB down to 350MHz and I still could not boot into windows.

Then I tried to see how far I could go with a multi of 11x and I was able to reach 11x335MHz w/ similar voltages listed above w/ RAM @ ~1000MHz same timmings.

Could some one explain why I can't reach 3.6GHz (9x400) but I can reach 3.685GHz (11x335)?

you're running a multiplier of 11 with the maximus formula se??? how?

[easyrider]

What Bios is everyone using?

I'm at 3.8ghz with this mobo.

1.6v in bios read 1.54 in everest.

Whats correct?

[egandt]

BIOS 0602 and USB devices? I upgraded my BIOS to 0620, and found if I did any overclocking (even 1 MHZ) it would not detect my USB devices, it would hang on detection, or else take 5 minutes then find maybe 4 of the 10 devices that are attached. For instance it might entirely miss the card reader and all 4 drives, or the card reader and 2 of the 4 drives or 1 of the 2 keyboards ...

Basically I have switched back to 0505, wanted to know if anyone else had similar issues?

ERIC

[TheSamurai]

i'm running 602 right now and it seems to be exactly the same as 505 for me.

[shadearg]

I had to revert back to 0505 since 0602 gave me video issues.

[GAR]

What Bios is everyone using?

I'm at 3.8ghz with this mobo.

1.6v in bios read 1.54 in everest.

Whats correct?

Hey could you do me a favor and run prime 95 while task manager is open, click on the process tab and see how much cpu is p95 using, with 1.5v and up quads have a problem in this board........thanks.

[froste]

Hey could you do me a favor and run prime 95 while task manager is open, click on the process tab and see how much cpu is p95 using, with 1.5v and up quads have a problem in this board........thanks.

At 3.82 GHz and 1.51 actual volts in Windows I can run blend or small FFT's and it loads my CPU 100% in task manager. Q6600 G0 here. I checked last night.

[Scope666]

I’m in RAM Hell. When I first got this board, both of my Ballistix were randomly testing bad in Memtest86+ One stick all the time, the other only after the machine had been on for a few hours. So I put an RMA request in for them, and picked up a pair of Corsair XMS2 sticks to hold me over until the Ballistix get back. First set of Corsairs, BOTH sticks test bad (different bit locations for each stick, swapped slots and verified it wasn’t the motherboard or the slot itself)

So I returned those 2, got ANOTHER 2 Corsairs, 1 of the 2 is bad. Keeping the good one and hoping CompUSA won’t bust my chops about swapping out just the one bad one today. Anyone else running these sticks? Have you had problems? What volts do you guys run these at. They’re rated at 1.9 which sounds low compared to the 2.2 the Ballistix are rated at. At the moment just trying to run them at their rated timings and speed. (DDR2 800 5-5-5-15 timings)

Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

[cstkl1]

is that in reference to my P5W vs Maximus Formula comparison or another post

no bro
in respective 0505 bios and 0602 no diff
sorry if caused some confusion

[-=j0nnyr0773n=-]

Grrr.. Ok, so I can set 450 x 8 (3.6 cpu) and Prime95 with the ram set to 900 (underclocked from 1066). I can set the ram to 1082 and the cpu to around 3.25 and prime stable. But as soon as I set the ram and cpu to 450x8 (3.6cpu / 1081memory) things become unstable. I've tried upping the voltages to basically everything, nb, dram, fsbtermination, vcore, etc... Not stable. If I set to 400x9 (3.6cpu / 1066mem) everything is solid. Any ideas?

[GAR]

At 3.82 GHz and 1.51 actual volts in Windows I can run blend or small FFT's and it loads my CPU 100% in task manager. Q6600 G0 here. I checked last night.

Yes task manager will show 100% but check prime95.exe see how much cpu it is using........... task manager will show you 100% check the prime95.exe in the process tab. thanks.

[froste]

Yes task manager will show 100% but check prime95.exe see how much cpu it is using........... task manager will show you 100% check the prime95.exe in the process tab. thanks.

Ahh, I see. I will check that later tonight, gotta take the girly out first.

[TheSamurai]

Yes task manager will show 100% but check prime95.exe see how much cpu it is using........... task manager will show you 100% check the prime95.exe in the process tab. thanks.

this has got to be something with the different batches... when did you get your G0??

[Majoram]

I’m in RAM Hell. When I first got this board, both of my Ballistix were randomly testing bad in Memtest86+ One stick all the time, the other only after the machine had been on for a few hours. So I put an RMA request in for them, and picked up a pair of Corsair XMS2 sticks to hold me over until the Ballistix get back. First set of Corsairs, BOTH sticks test bad (different bit locations for each stick, swapped slots and verified it wasn’t the motherboard or the slot itself)

So I returned those 2, got ANOTHER 2 Corsairs, 1 of the 2 is bad. Keeping the good one and hoping CompUSA won’t bust my chops about swapping out just the one bad one today. Anyone else running these sticks? Have you had problems? What volts do you guys run these at. They’re rated at 1.9 which sounds low compared to the 2.2 the Ballistix are rated at. At the moment just trying to run them at their rated timings and speed. (DDR2 800 5-5-5-15 timings)

Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

That sounds very much like the problem I have.
I sent in both the RAM and the motherboard for RMA.
I'm using the same Ballistix and got errors for all of them (Memtest86+).

Strange thing is when I tried some OCZ PC2-8500, it worked just fine with no errors at all.

I'm getting them back today and I will see how it goes.
The Ballistix I have are PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 and I have 4x1GB but I tried just two at a time and still got errors.

[sonicsallen]

Used everest, compared all settings from 0505 to 0602 and the ram had less performance.

EDIT: Vista restart still results in a failed Overclock.

This is my Everest Bandwith test with 0602 and 0505
BIOS settings are all the same
480x8 1:1 DDR2-960 2T-4-4-4-5-3-30-3-1-8-3-5-4-6-4-6-Auto-Auto-Auto
0505


0602


To me, the difference looks minimal. The release note does say the new BIOS improves memory compatibility, although I still cannot run my Ballistix 8500 @ 600Mhz stable, which is very easy on the other borads.