ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[devilhood]

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?

kup, sorry for hassling you, but would it be possible for you to mod 701 bios as well? that would be pretty awesome.
I think the board is arriving tomorrow morning so I intend on giving it a good thrashing

many thanks for the modded 702 one btw.

[TheSamurai]

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!!!!!

i hear that!!! i've been able to get 3.8 (9 multi) stable and 3.6 (8 multi) stable... but as soon as i try the 9 multi with a higher fsb then 425, it's not even close to stable. can't figure out for the life of me. i would think that the only voltage i'd need to change when upping the multi would be the cpu related ones, right? i mean that's the only thing i'm changing is the cpu clock speed so everything else should stay the same?

[chocobo15]

i picked up one of these mobos the other day and slapped on a Q6600 and i'm having memory issues too

The system boots and runs OK, but crashes sometimes and sometimes programs run choppy with short freezes between operations (ie running a game, or loading multiple instances of internet explorer)

Was there a solution to this issue? Should I try higher bus ram? (1066 maybe?) cause i'm running everything stock right now, no overclock, nothing...and yet when I memtest, my system fails every pass, i'm going crazy here >.<

[kup]

kup, sorry for hassling you, but would it be possible for you to mod 701 bios as well? that would be pretty awesome.
I think the board is arriving tomorrow morning so I intend on giving it a good thrashing

many thanks for the modded 702 one btw.

http://rapidshare.com/files/67950213...-ASUS-SLIC.zip

Here ya go, same file as I'm use...not had a single problem with it, overclocks at least as far as 0505 for me, not tried further yet, but I do still have the 100% load issue with it @ 3.9GHz...

[Budwise]

i still cant get this SuperPi Stable. Its gotta be a bios problem, cuz i cant imagine anything else...

[crazyea]

people with memory errors please check actual voltage in the bios hardware monitor as the settings in the extreme tweaker are not very accurate. I am running 4x1gb ballistix pc8500 tracers, no issues at all, prime stable over 8hours. will try that super_pi 32mb test. btw, i am running my quad at 400x9, memory at 1066. ill check back in later. 0602 bios.

[chocobo15]

u have to flash your bios to get the 0602 right? they dont come with that version do they? (even though I purchased mine like 7 days ago?)

[Majoram]

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!!!!!

Yes he did mention the vdroop

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!!!!!!

Well he said it was stable and I guess I believe what he said from the screen that I saw.
I doubt he was just sitting their waiting for a customer to mention the maximus and then start talking about his setup??

As for email and phone, well he does have a store so he's not that hard to track down.

I will try to take a pic and post it.

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?

Wish I had more to tell but I just came off the night shift and just had to get home.

You mean something like these?

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

Okay so I guess the overclock was not that great but his temps seemed very low and I don't know but was the voltage high or low for that kind of overclock? (the 1.51 vCore)

[crazyea]

yeh u will need to flash it to 0602.

[Budwise]

mine are Prime Blend stable for over 12 hours as well, but they wont run Pi for for some reason....

[Majoram]

This is the resistor that needs to be shorted.
You just take a 4B pencil and mark on the top of the resistor to connect the contacts on either end.



Sorry but I couldn't find a more detailed pic and my board is under my desk and my camera doesn't like that. None of my pics came out clear.

If some brave soul is willing to try this, let us know how it goes!

[-=j0nnyr0773n=-]

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?

I thought that mod was for vdroop..

[Majoram]

I thought that mod was for vdroop..

Okay basically what I got from the guy is that the vdroop and general overclocking stability is due to the EPU.

Of course you'll have to forgive that I had no sleep in the last 24+ hours so I only remembered some main points and hoped that someone here would be able to make sense of it?!

Just wanted to share and hope something comes of it.

[sdumper]

whats the big deal... http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=264643

[sdumper]

460 is stable enough the problem is trying to get 485 stable...

[GAR]

I thought that mod was for vdroop..

This board has no vdroop with any bios after 0504.

[sdumper]

I thought that mod was for vdroop..

That mod is vDroop

Its the same as the P5B Deluxe...

[safan80]

whats the big deal... http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=264643

what bios are you using?

[sdumper]

0701...

[cadaveca]

This board has no vdroop with any bios after 0504.

Ah, but maybe mod is better than loadline calibration?

[Aldy402]

for a note for anybody using a 8800GT

I always set my PCI-E freq @ 110 but when I received my 8800GT, it would black screen after a while. Once I set it back to 100, the problem went away..
I never had that problem with my 8800GTS. I guess pci-e 2.0 cards are just not comfortable at a freq more then 100..

[sdumper]

Ah, but maybe mod is better than loadline calibration?

try it and see i dont know why it would be but the only way were going to close this out is for one of us to try it out.

I dont care to try it so it will have to be someone else...

[GAR]

for a note for anybody using a 8800GT

I always set my PCI-E freq @ 110 but when I received my 8800GT, it would black screen after a while. Once I set it back to 100, the problem went away..
I never had that problem with my 8800GTS. I guess pci-e 2.0 cards are just not comfortable at a freq more then 100..

Mine is at 118mhz

[crazyea]

These are the settings I have used to get my 4x1gb pc8500 tracers stable at 1066 as well as oc my q6600 to 3.6@400x9. The biggest issue is the discrepancy between the bios settings and the voltages in windows/bios hardware monitor. This set up is prime stable over 8 hours with round off checking and alaso super_pi 32m stable, and memtest86+ over several hours. I hope it helps someone.

Extreme Tweaker
Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 9
FSB Frequency : 400
FSB Strap to North Bridge : Auto
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-1066
DRAM Command Rate : 2T
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency : 5
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 5
RAS# Precharge : 5
RAS# ActivateTime : 15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : 3
Row Refresh Cycle Time : 25
Write Recovery Time : 6
Read to Precharge Time : 3

Read to Write Delay (S/D) : 8
Write to Read Delay (S) : 3
Write to Read Delay (D) : 5
Read to Read Delay (S) : 4
Read to Read Delay (D) : 6
Write to Write Delay (S) : 4
Write to Write Delay (D) : 6
DRAM Static Read Control: Auto
Ai Clock Twister : Auto
Transaction Booster : Auto

CPU Voltage : 1.41875 = 1.4
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.52 = 1.648
North Bridge Voltage : 1.49 = 1.520
DRAM Voltage : 2.12 = 2.224
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.40 = 1.472
South Bridge Voltage : 1.05 = 1.088
Loadline Calibration : Enabled
CPU GTL Reference : Auto
North Bridge GTL Reference : Auto
DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage : Auto
DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage : Auto
DDR2 Controller REF Voltage : Auto
SB 1.5V Voltage : 1.5 = 1.552

NB LED Selection : NB Volt
SB LED Selection : SB Volt
CPU LED Selection : CPU VOlt
Voltiminder LED :

CPU Spread Spectrum : Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum : Disabled

Advanced CPU Configuration
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 9
C1E Suppport : Disabled
CPU TM Function : Disabled

[GAR]

with bios 0701, i lost abit of bandwidth with everest......