ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[TouGe]

@ weescott

To think I was 2 minutes away from attempting to take off the heatpipe from my board.

I am really glad I didn't now!

If you take your time the NB comes off rather easily, just don't pull. I took a flat head screw driver and just slowly worked the corners and it came off w/o any problems. It was definetly worth the lower temps.

@scope666

Probably just growing pains, it's a VERY new chipset, and the BIOS is in its infant stages. It will probably take awhile before this thing starts to shine. My old P5b Deluxe was like that when it first came out, then it became a rock.

Other than PCI-E 2.0 and better support for 45nm and DDR3, how is this a new chipset?
Didn't Intel design the X38 specifically for DDR3? Didn't ASUS and other MoBo manufacturers have to force DDR2 support on the chipset? I'm wondering if all are problems are just due to poor optimization of DDR2 that can't be fixed outside of loose timmings.