ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[devilhood]

It seems as a final result, that these board needs high volts to do anything. and I mean anything, In the overclocking world.
Because I've got it stable at 435x9 and 480x8, But Nothing higher, Even with Xtreme volts.
Plus, Anything over 1.65volts on the core, stops the system from posting. Which isn't really the CPUs fault. So I think there is a Major Bios update in order.

Hmm.. there's hoping a BIOS release would fix it, but if it doesn't I'm going to be a little bit peeved.

I'd love to be able to go with 450x8 without any 'majorly worrying' voltage increase, glad to hear memory timings are great though.

I'll persist with this board, and stick with the optimism that future BIOS upgrades will shape it up nicely... it was a similar situation with the P5W64-WS but stability gradually got better. Shame they never fixed the cold-reboot on it though, the P5W-DH Deluxe didn't have that problem even though the boards were very similar.

The feature set is just perfect for what I'm after and I plan on avoiding DDR3 like the plague... until late next year.

[Warboy]

Hmm.. there's hoping a BIOS release would fix it, but if it doesn't I'm going to be a little bit peeved, or should I just cancel my order and go for something else?

I'd love to be able to go with 450 FSB!

I believe if you want a 450 FSB, To use 450x8, to get 3.6Ghz, But the NB and FSB Term Volts would still need to be over 1.5volts

I say, Don't cancel, This motherboard is only a month old and we've already seen what? 4-5 Public bios releases?

*EDIT* Plus they give you a Advance Edition of 3DMark06, Who can beat that motherboard combo? :P

[devilhood]

Thanks for the vote of confidence haha I edited my post quite significantly before you finished writing your message, apologies for that! yeah the software bundle package is outstanding, totally agree.

I look forward to posting my eventual results once it arrives either tomorrow or the day after.

Glad this thread is about, such information is invaluable to new users.

[Warboy]

Thanks for the vote of confidence haha I edited my post quite significantly before you finished writing your message, apologies for that! yeah the software bundle package is outstanding, totally agree.

I look forward to posting my eventual results once it arrives either tomorrow or the day after.

Glad this thread is about, such information is invaluable to new users.

Now that i read your edited post. I have to agree. Also, I notice there is a Reboot problem with these one too, It hangs at "Det mem" on the LCD Poster.

[devilhood]

Hanging probably isn't quite as bad as having your system shut down and turn on after only 1 second or so, at least with the hang it wont potentially destroy any hard-disks.. I had quite a few scares using the P5W64-WS with the RAID array going a bit mental

Have there been any SLIC modified versions of the BIOS put out yet?

[Warboy]

Hanging probably isn't quite as bad as having your system shut down and turn on after only 1 second or so, at least with the hang it wont potentially destroy any hard-disks.. I had quite a few scares using the P5W64-WS with the RAID array going a bit mental

Have there been any SLIC modified versions of the BIOS put out yet?

I dont think so, oh i lost 250GB of data on my SATAII due to my partitioner messing up on the P5K. -_- thats called losing it to the extreme...

[devilhood]

250 GB of data, bad luck

I don't think I have ever had any bad luck with HD's so far, apart from the RAID scare... oh and one of my ancient seagates died from the click of death, but it randomly started working after a few weeks for about 1 hour, which allowed me enough time to copy all the data off haha.

[kup]

Hanging probably isn't quite as bad as having your system shut down and turn on after only 1 second or so, at least with the hang it wont potentially destroy any hard-disks.. I had quite a few scares using the P5W64-WS with the RAID array going a bit mental

Have there been any SLIC modified versions of the BIOS put out yet?

There have indeed...what version would you like? I do it myself...all tested...what SLIC?

[devilhood]

SLIC?

Hmm.. confused over all the versions available, 702 would be good though.