ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[TheSamurai]

Man I installed this board last night and it wouldn't post with my Ballistix......I tried each DIMM in each slot individually, and I tried an el cheapo stick of Kingston. My memory is on the QVL too.
I spent TWO HOURS last night trying to get this memory to boot. It just hangs on DET DRAM every time. Reset the CMOS dozens of times. Tried different SATA ports just to make sure. This is insane.
I'm going to try to boot again when I get home from work, but I'm afraid I've given up on ASUS. My P5K doesn't really like this RAM much either, and won't always POST. It will eventually though. I'm going to get the Gigabyte model.
Anyone else running Ballistix? I have the DDR2-800 CAS4 sticks.

3.825 here (425 x 9) with a 1:1, 4 stick of ram, 4-4-4-12... stable 4 hours prime.

[kup]

3.825 here (425 x 9) with a 1:1, 4 stick of ram, 4-4-4-12... stable 4 hours prime.

What settings please? I run the same, 4x1GB and the same clocks and timings and regardless of how long it can run prime for me it seems to still be unstable.

Also, I just had OCCT crash for me at completely stock. Like EVERYTHING set to stock, timings, voltages, settings, basically a boring slow system and yet OCCT still found fault within 5mins of running the ram specific test...? What could that be?

[Warboy]

Hey guys, Do you think there is a difference between the SE and the Non-SE performance wise/OC wise.

[TheSamurai]

What settings please? I run the same, 4x1GB and the same clocks and timings and regardless of how long it can run prime for me it seems to still be unstable.

Also, I just had OCCT crash for me at completely stock. Like EVERYTHING set to stock, timings, voltages, settings, basically a boring slow system and yet OCCT still found fault within 5mins of running the ram specific test...? What could that be?

the voltages were within the normal range. start at the end of "normal" and work your way back. strap was auto, try trans booster off and relax to 1. i think static was enabled. if you want the exact settings i'll get them for you. but remember, every cpu, stick of ram, etc., is different. ram was set to 1.94 in bios i believe. remember, this board over volts the ram pretty bad.

[kup]

the voltages were within the normal range. start at the end of "normal" and work your way back. strap was auto, try trans booster off and relax to 1. i think static was enabled. if you want the exact settings i'll get them for you. but remember, every cpu, stick of ram, etc., is different. ram was set to 1.94 in bios i believe. remember, this board over volts the ram pretty bad.

I'l try those now, cheers dude!

I've found something odd with this board; overvolting seems to cause tyhe same problems as undervolting for me. As in, it is randomly unstable and crashes...

Never experienced that with more than required volts!!!

[Warboy]

Alright, I seem to found a sweet spot right now, Got it to 3.94Ghz (435x9) at 1.55 volts. Northbridge set to 1.55 volts, FSB at 1.65volts, CPU PLL around 1.50-1.70. I forgot what i put it at. But it is stable in XP, Vista 64bit so far. I'll try to get some bios pics with my cam later.

[devilhood]

Alright, I seem to found a sweet spot right now, Got it to 3.94Ghz (435x9) at 1.55 volts. Northbridge set to 1.55 volts, FSB at 1.65volts, CPU PLL around 1.50-1.70. I forgot what i put it at. But it is stable in XP, Vista 64bit so far. I'll try to get some bios pics with my cam later.

Nice one Warboy, I don't think I'm going to push this board too hard, just want a nice half-way point for long-term stability and heavy gaming.. but my experiences so far have been great.

[Warboy]

Nice one Warboy, I don't think I'm going to push this board too hard, just want a nice half-way point for long-term stability and heavy gaming.. but my experiences so far have been great.

Yea, Thats what i want too, So I'm going to save these settings to a OC Profile

[TheSamurai]

Alright, I seem to found a sweet spot right now, Got it to 3.94Ghz (435x9) at 1.55 volts. Northbridge set to 1.55 volts, FSB at 1.65volts, CPU PLL around 1.50-1.70. I forgot what i put it at. But it is stable in XP, Vista 64bit so far. I'll try to get some bios pics with my cam later.

stable in which program???

[Warboy]

stable in which program???

Otheros, OCCT, SuperPI 32m

[DeViTTo]

Alright, I seem to found a sweet spot right now, Got it to 3.94Ghz (435x9) at 1.55 volts. Northbridge set to 1.55 volts, FSB at 1.65volts, CPU PLL around 1.50-1.70. I forgot what i put it at. But it is stable in XP, Vista 64bit so far. I'll try to get some bios pics with my cam later.

Bios 602

Yep there is a sweet spot as you say Warboy. I used your settings but in XP64Bit and its happy at 435x9 with the voltages you gave in this post. I'm going to try and push a bit higher though and tighten the timings a little.

BTW if any of you want a stable operating system better than Vista64 and which I have some issues with i.e TimeBug xfi issues and Geforce 8800GTX holding on to thread then try XP64 its snappy more responsive and loads faster than XP32 and you can get Alchemy to work in games even though its not built for this operating system. actually it sounds better than XP clearer in all channels rear especially.

[kup]

Alright, I seem to found a sweet spot right now, Got it to 3.94Ghz (435x9) at 1.55 volts. Northbridge set to 1.55 volts, FSB at 1.65volts, CPU PLL around 1.50-1.70. I forgot what i put it at. But it is stable in XP, Vista 64bit so far. I'll try to get some bios pics with my cam later.

Bios 602

Yep there is a sweet spot as you say Warboy. I used your settings but in XP64Bit and its happy at 435x9 with the voltages you gave in this post. I'm going to try and push a bit higher though and tighten the timings a little.

BTW if any of you want a stable operating system better than Vista64 and which I have some issues with i.e TimeBug xfi issues and Geforce 8800GTX holding on to thread then try XP64 its snappy more responsive and loads faster than XP32 and you can get Alchemy to work in games even though its not built for this operating system. actually it sounds better than XP clearer in all channels rear especially.

I had to adjust these settings slightly to account for individual overvolting and undervolting, but yeah, there seems to be a sweet spot! Well done that man!

I've been playing with vFSBT as well, and for me too much causes the same instabilities as too little. You have to get it JUST right, from what I'm experienced!

[binormalkilla]

3.825 here (425 x 9) with a 1:1, 4 stick of ram, 4-4-4-12... stable 4 hours prime.

Well that's good to know....maybe it's just the board. I'm going to RMA back to newegg on monday. Even if I do get it to boot it will probably have the same issue that my P5K had (RMAing that one soon....). My P5K wouldn't POST every once in a while, usually after a hard boot or wrong BIOS setting. I would have to try booting OVER AND OVER AND OVER until it finally posted. I wouldn't get any post beeps or anything.
I dunno man......that's two ASUS boards that have wasted a HUGE amount of my life within the last 4 months.
I would understand if I was using some sort of POS hardware, but my system is pretty close to top of the line.....there shouldn't be any of this nonsense.

[TheSamurai]

Well that's good to know....maybe it's just the board. I'm going to RMA back to newegg on monday. Even if I do get it to boot it will probably have the same issue that my P5K had (RMAing that one soon....). My P5K wouldn't POST every once in a while, usually after a hard boot or wrong BIOS setting. I would have to try booting OVER AND OVER AND OVER until it finally posted. I wouldn't get any post beeps or anything.
I dunno man......that's two ASUS boards that have wasted a HUGE amount of my life within the last 4 months.
I would understand if I was using some sort of POS hardware, but my system is pretty close to top of the line.....there shouldn't be any of this nonsense.

yeah, i know it's not the greatest, but it's pretty good for me. 3.9 takes quite a bit more voltage. it's odd. i don't understand why i can be at 1.46 vcore with 3.8 and then something like 1.56+ just to get an extra 100 MHz.