ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Renegade5399]

question for you guys...
when my board arrives i want to install vista 64 ultimate , and set up raid0 on 3 raptors...
do i need to create a floppy disk with the raid drivers to load during install?

No, not for Vista you don't.

[gs274]

whats the status of the vista issues with the 602 bios?

[ShawnTRD]

Is there a Program that will tell me that all the setting of my memory are? Kind of like what A64 Tweaker did for Athlon 64 OCers.

[cadaveca]

memset.

[andyr(uk)]

Hey, make sure your not using the 4:5 divider....its broken.

Yeah you would of thought they would of fixed that by now

[Aldy402]

my 8800gt keeps on blacking out on me randomly and the monitor shuts off as if theres no video signal
I didnt have this problem with my 8800GTS

anybody else getting this problem?

[Majoram]

Sooo okay. I have something that may help everyone but I don't know if this is old news.

But first my RAM failed the tests again with all 4 sticks. I'm just gonna leave it as it is. I should've gotten the G Skill that Gar has

I upped the voltage to 2.3 and there is only 1 failure so far.

Now to the important stuff....
Has anyone heard of the EPU pencil mod for this board?
I was at a comp store today and met the owner who has this board at 4.005 Ghz!
I forget the FSB I saw but it was on a x9 multiplier with vCore at 1.51v and 0602 BIOS.

The temps were VERY cool too. Everything was below 40 deg in ASUS probe (CPU was around low 30s) and under load.

He said he was cooling on air and all this was thanks to a pencil mod for the EPU since the EPU was causing all the overclocking problems with this board.

There is a resistor on the top right of the EPU that he uses a 4B pencil to short the two ends of.

The other thing is that he was using some new RAM that is not available (in Canada) yet. The timings and latency was amazing. Sorry I didn't get more but I haven't slept all night

If I get a chance later, I will try to post a pic of the resistor to pencil out.
OR maybe someone else can post a pic of the EPU and surrounding resistors and I will edit and repost.

OR is all that I am saying just old news???

[Warboy]

Sooo okay. I have something that may help everyone but I don't know if this is old news.

But first my RAM failed the tests again with all 4 sticks. I'm just gonna leave it as it is. I should've gotten the G Skill that Gar has

I upped the voltage to 2.3 and there is only 1 failure so far.

Now to the important stuff....
Has anyone heard of the EPU pencil mod for this board?
I was at a comp store today and met the owner who has this board at 4.005 Ghz!
I forget the FSB I saw but it was on a x9 multiplier with vCore at 1.51v and 0602 BIOS.

The temps were VERY cool too. Everything was below 40 deg in ASUS probe (CPU was around low 30s) and under load.

He said he was cooling on air and all this was thanks to a pencil mod for the EPU since the EPU was causing all the overclocking problems with this board.

There is a resistor on the top right of the EPU that he uses a 4B pencil to short the two ends of.

The other thing is that he was using some new RAM that is not available (in Canada) yet. The timings and latency was amazing. Sorry I didn't get more but I haven't slept all night

If I get a chance later, I will try to post a pic of the resistor to pencil out.
OR maybe someone else can post a pic of the EPU and surrounding resistors and I will edit and repost.

OR is all that I am saying just old news???

You mean something like these?

[TouGe]

I didn't see a difference between 0602 & 0701 as far as Everset is concerned:

0602
RD: 8582
WT: 7277
Copy: 8045
Lat: 58.2

0701
RD: 8593
WT: 7180
Copy: 8028
Lat: 58.3

[BulldogPO]

Thats nothing extra special, done it with older bios and with 2 sticks of memory(but with 1:1 divider):

[Budwise]

anyone else have problems getting this board to finish dual 32M SuperPi with 4X1Gb? No matter what the speed or timings one thread always seems to crash at step6-7...

[GAR]

my 8800gt keeps on blacking out on me randomly and the monitor shuts off as if theres no video signal
I didnt have this problem with my 8800GTS

anybody else getting this problem?

Have you overclocked it???? mine did that when i overclocked it

[Leeghoofd]

I didn't see a difference between 0602 & 0701 as far as Everset is concerned:

0602
RD: 8582
WT: 7277
Copy: 8045
Lat: 58.2

0701
RD: 8593
WT: 7180
Copy: 8028
Lat: 58.3

What are your settings for the Static Read control and transaction Booster ? FSB and Multi used, ram timings/speed ?

[binormalkilla]

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?

On my P5K I run static read control at disabled and transbooster on auto. I've found that changing trans booster to anything but auto can lead to conflicts with memory timings. From what I understand this affects the latencies of the NB......but I really have no proof of this other than bandwidth benches.

[kup]

Guys, the overclocks may not be anything mind blowing, but this thing about modding the EPU chip might be what we need?

Does anyone have any information on it?

[TheSamurai]

Sooo okay. I have something that may help everyone but I don't know if this is old news.

But first my RAM failed the tests again with all 4 sticks. I'm just gonna leave it as it is. I should've gotten the G Skill that Gar has

I upped the voltage to 2.3 and there is only 1 failure so far.

Now to the important stuff....
Has anyone heard of the EPU pencil mod for this board?
I was at a comp store today and met the owner who has this board at 4.005 Ghz!
I forget the FSB I saw but it was on a x9 multiplier with vCore at 1.51v and 0602 BIOS.

The temps were VERY cool too. Everything was below 40 deg in ASUS probe (CPU was around low 30s) and under load.

He said he was cooling on air and all this was thanks to a pencil mod for the EPU since the EPU was causing all the overclocking problems with this board.

There is a resistor on the top right of the EPU that he uses a 4B pencil to short the two ends of.

The other thing is that he was using some new RAM that is not available (in Canada) yet. The timings and latency was amazing. Sorry I didn't get more but I haven't slept all night

If I get a chance later, I will try to post a pic of the resistor to pencil out.
OR maybe someone else can post a pic of the EPU and surrounding resistors and I will edit and repost.

OR is all that I am saying just old news???

i've gotten 4.1 GHz to load... was this guy's settings actually stable??? get a picture of the resistor please... and don't tell me that you didn't get his email addy or phone number!!!!!!

[binormalkilla]

702 made me loose alot of memory bandwidth with the same settings as 0505, seems like 0505 is the best bios s far for me.....whats everyone else on???

I'm interested to know as well.....mine should be here tomorrow or the day after, provided they shipped from the Memphis warehouse rather than California.
I already downloaded all of the drivers and BIOS 0602.

BTW, is the Intel Matrix Storage Manager software required if we're not running RAID? I have two SATA HDDs and one external USB, but I'm not running RAID.

Has anyone experienced any issues running their SATA drives in AHCI mode? I'm running a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 as my slave SATA and a Western Digital Caviar as my master in Vista x64 Ultimate. I've never run my HDDs in AHCI....not sure if they support NCQ and such but I'm checking on it. Here is the WD drive at newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136073

[GAR]

That EPU mod seems to be our fix for the vcore issue.......if someone finds anything about it please post asap.....i could get my 3.9ghz overclock back!!!!!

[ShawnTRD]

memset.

memset3.0 says not for this chipset. Is there a newer one that works?

[Warboy]

memset3.0 says not for this chipset. Is there a newer one that works?

Go get the 3.4 newest beta

[binormalkilla]

memset3.0 says not for this chipset. Is there a newer one that works?

Ugh....I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole!
Why not test timings with bootable Memtest86 if you're wanting to test in real-time? That will cut down on BSODs and potential data corruption.....

[C-N]

memset3.0 says not for this chipset. Is there a newer one that works?

Go get the 3.4 newest beta

Memset v3.4 Beta 3 : http://perso.orange.fr/Tweak-and-Sof...Set34beta3.exe

I don't have an X38 so I don't know if it works or not but it wont hurt to try.

CN

[Warboy]

Memset v3.4 Beta 3 : http://perso.orange.fr/Tweak-and-Sof...Set34beta3.exe

I don't have an X38 so I don't know if it works or not but it wont hurt to try.

CN

I thought there was a Beta 4 out, Also, It does support X38, I tested it. Also, With bios 701, I'm getting a 7 Performance level at high clocked memory.

[ashefps]

anyone else have problems getting this board to finish dual 32M SuperPi with 4X1Gb? No matter what the speed or timings one thread always seems to crash at step6-7...

Yes, I am getting this. I even put my memory from 1066 to 800 and the E6850 from 3.6 GHz to 3.0 GHz (stock) and it still crashes at that point.

[ShawnTRD]

Ugh....I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole!
Why not test timings with bootable Memtest86 if you're wanting to test in real-time? That will cut down on BSODs and potential data corruption.....

I'm just looking to see what the other AUTO Settings are setting stuff to. And how they change from BIOS to BIOS.