ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[safan80]

Confirmed, new drivers and X-FI are working good, i have my fingers crossed, i havnt shot this card yet LOL

you know you want to

[sdumper]

Pretty high NB voltage eh?

Yes sir but not so much....for water.
Im more concerned with the temps which are hitting 52/54c with side panel on.

Dropping down to 1.65 the NB is hitting 48c still hot...

I will likely run it at 1.71 as set in bios and 1.74 real as reported by PC Probe II once I add water. If the chipset dies I will RMA and report back here of my follies but if it doesnt then maybe these chips can take it...

[safan80]

I just ordered this from newegg at the open box price of $250.99. I should have it at the end of the week.

[Aldy402]

I just ordered this from newegg at the open box price of $250.99. I should have it at the end of the week.

interesting, let us know if you get the accessories

[Creek Tha Gray]

still waiting on my MM case to get here for this new mobo will be here in 4 days

[Majoram]

Same here, usually between tests 4 and 5, although one stick was bad enough to show an error immediately. It just seems weird to me that this many sticks are actually bad. I think this board is just REALLY picky about what chips and SPD data are on the sticks.

I've gotten back my RMA'd mobo and RAM.

So far in pairs the Ballistix have had no errors in Memtest86+ after 17 passes for the first pair and for the second pair I only did 3 passes but no errors.

Tested them both at DDR800 and DDR1066 speeds.
Left the DRAM voltage on auto and this is using the 0602 BIOS (previously I was using the 0505 BIOS).

Right now I am testing all 4 sticks in at DDR1066 and when I left home it was on test 8 with no errors so far on the first pass.

Did yours work out okay?

[Scope666]

I've gotten back my RMA'd mobo and RAM.

So far in pairs the Ballistix have had no errors in Memtest86+ after 17 passes for the first pair and for the second pair I only did 3 passes but no errors.

Tested them both at DDR800 and DDR1066 speeds.
Left the DRAM voltage on auto and this is using the 0602 BIOS (previously I was using the 0505 BIOS).

Right now I am testing all 4 sticks in at DDR1066 and when I left home it was on test 8 with no errors so far on the first pass.

Did yours work out okay?

No, I have to RMA it. Did they send you another rev 1.02 board? Just curious. I think I might try another one. I want to like this board, maybe I just had bad luck. BTW, the 5 out of 6 sticks that were testing bad on the Maximus tested fine in the 680i. Weird how the one stick would always test ok on the "bad" Maximus.

Good luck with yours, I hope it behaves this time out. :-)

[Budwise]

ive been getting a weird occurance with this board's voltage settings. I have all settings except the Vcore and the Vdimm set to Auto, yet according to Asus Probe the voltages for a few things are "too high". Anyone else get this?

[safan80]

ive been getting a weird occurance with this board's voltage settings. I have all settings except the Vcore and the Vdimm set to Auto, yet according to Asus Probe the voltages for a few things are "too high". Anyone else get this?

it will do that if you use auto. the best thing to do is set the voltages manually.

[Majoram]

No, I have to RMA it. Did they send you another rev 1.02 board? Just curious. I think I might try another one. I want to like this board, maybe I just had bad luck. BTW, the 5 out of 6 sticks that were testing bad on the Maximus tested fine in the 680i. Weird how the one stick would always test ok on the "bad" Maximus.

Good luck with yours, I hope it behaves this time out. :-)

Yeah it was another Rev 1.02. I was secretly hoping there would be another revision but I don't think it exists.

So far, so good with the RAM. I'll then boot into Windows when I get home in the morning and see what happens there.

[GAR]

you know you want to

HAHA, i would have for sure if these drivers didnt work, all i know is it took them 1 year for these drivers.

[binormalkilla]

OK, so the BSOD happens mainly when i exit a game, and when i try to restart my computer..................Process_Has_locked_pages ...........i tried upping the pci-e mhz and nothing happened, i tried it on 100 and i still get the bsod...........this is crazy im starting to think i have a bad card maybe????? everytime i try to restart i get a bsod.....overclocked or stock, same thing.

This merely means that you shut your system down before the processes were allowed to exit the memory. I have seen this BSOD in Vista x64 a few times if I shut down quickly without closing any open programs that are running......I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Well I ordered this board so I'll post what I get with my Q6600 G0. I have to RMA my P5K because it has a weird POST bug......it's like playing Russian roulette when you turn it off.

[GAR]

This merely means that you shut your system down before the processes were allowed to exit the memory. I have seen this BSOD in Vista x64 a few times if I shut down quickly without closing any open programs that are running......I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Well I ordered this board so I'll post what I get with my Q6600 G0. I have to RMA my P5K because it has a weird POST bug......it's like playing Russian roulette when you turn it off.

it was actually the vista x64 drivers for creative x-fi, but new drivers came out today and fixed the issue.

[binormalkilla]

it was actually the vista x64 drivers for creative x-fi, but new drivers came out today and fixed the issue.

Hey that's cool. I didn't know that there were new drivers today. I'm not going to install them until I get the Maximus, as I have to reinstall Vista x64 anyhow. Good to know though.

[Budwise]

anyone figure out what the LCD option "User String" mean in the bios? I would love to be able to put some useful information on the LCD rather than a clock...

[Budwise]

anyone have any tips for getting better memory clocks out of this board? I have Static Read Control disabled, Transaction booster disabled and relax set to 1. Any other key settings here?

[Leeghoofd]

Bench now with everest for read,copy and write tests then I use these settings Static read control ENABLED transaction booster DISABLED relax level 1 and bench again, also after bios update to 701 ram performance increased well...

For the LCD, with the Striker ( haven't unpacked it yet for the Formula), User string enabled that you could enter eg your name nickname to be flashing once the pc has powered up... (but maybe programmers can do more than me lol)

[kup]

The issues with not loading 100% has hit my Folding as well now..."System" seems to jump from between 0 and 25% in Task Manager and my frame times have dropped by over a minute at nearly 200MHz higher clocks... If I lower the vCore (it's not stable but can Fold for about 30mins) the problem goes away!

This is pissing me off now, might just RMA the board (would OcUK let that be a legit reason?) and go back to my Striker...

[andyr(uk)]

Hi do you all have to pay for Everest benchmark or is there a free one , i am looking for one that isnt a trial version , as the ones i try are all 30 day and it comes up trial in some of the tests. thanks

[Renegade5399]

Still need my temps question answered. Since 0701, what temps do I believe? CoreTemp or the reading in BIOS/PC Probe?

[devilhood]

I just placed an order for this board, so looking forward to seeing how it performs. I'm really happy that it is DDR2 compatible though; Crucial Ballstix 2 GB PC2-8500 has yet to fail me
Anyone else using the same RAM? how tight have you managed to get the timings on this board?
Reason for buying it is that my old i975X absolutely hated the G0 Q6600 and was terrible at performing above 340 FSB even at higher voltages.

[Warboy]

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.

Also, I need to test bios 0505 soon. To see if i can get better clocks out of it. I tried 06xx and 0701. The Memory timings are fine, I got better performance in memory then i did with my P5K at the same clocks.

[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.