ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[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

[kup]

IThanks Kup btw for your modded BIOS again.

Not a problem...email/PM me for any more as they're released... kup[remove this...]lion@hot...mail...DOTcom! ( I hate spam bots!! )

[loften]

i am so close to turning mine on.. i have been building it for over a month now.. all i need now is a video card. anyone want to email me one?

[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

[TouGe]

Well, I just lost 2 of my 4 sticks of Patriot 8500 RAM. They were in my blue slots at the time. I don't know why they went bad. THey are rated @ 2.3V and I've never run them above 2.2V actual (2.1 + 0.1V over-volt). For the most part I've been able to run them @ 2.15V-2.18V actual.

I'm not really sure if this is a motherboard issue or just tired DIMMS. Since this is the third set I've burned through in the past year, two sets while using a 680i and now this set here, I'm looking to pick up another kit while I'm waiting for these to go through the long, slow RMA process.

For some reason I can't access the Asus QVL to see what is recommended for this board I would like some opinions on my RAM selection:

Mushkin DDR2-1150MHz (PC9200)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146686

I don't want Corsair RAM and I'd like to pick up the speed a little more than my current sticks.

Thanks....

[DeViTTo]

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

I would be very interested to know your settings and the bios you are using please?

[ShawnTRD]

Anyone have any idea why XP freezes after every boot after being off for awile?

What BIOS are you guys running?

Are you doing any overclocking? What was your settings. It could be anything. Pushing you ram to far, voltages to low.

[ShawnTRD]

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[TouGe]

Well I just pulled the plug and ordered 2x's (2x1GB) kits of the Mushkin 9200's. They seemed to do fine on other Intel chipsets and they are Micron D9's so they shouldn't OC any worse than my Patriots which are also D9 chips. I'll find out on Tuesday.

[kup]

So, what settings are people using to get 4x1GB sticks stable @ 450MHz+ FSB?

[TheSamurai]

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what was the point of this lol... i'm a post whore, so what? hah :p

[ShawnTRD]

what was the point of this lol... i'm a post whore, so what? hah :p

One posting whore to another. Does it need a point?

[devilhood]

ShawnTRD is the Spam King though

[Mean Machine]

So, they've attached the water block with screws now, eh? Haven't paid much attention to that ever since I saw one pre-production board (think it was that EATX X38 board from Asus, whatever "elite noobpwner led se" it's named), which had the water block glued to the northbirdge. This one guy dropped the board like 10cms, the block just dropped right off.

[Renegade5399]

Well my Ballistix are dead. Was running them in the white slots. Following settings: DDR2 1069, 4-4-4-10-2T, 2.34 volts, actively cooled. Since the RAM is rated for 2.2 I didn't think it was a big deal. This will be my 2nd RMA for these. The first set died in my 680i at DDR2 1200 5-5-5-15-2T, 2.3 volts. I may just sell these (after RMA) and see what else I can get.

So for now all I have is a stick of 1GB DDR2 533 OC'd to DDR2 600. Yielding me a cool 2.7 GHz, LOL.

[CyberDruid]

You guys are making me nervous about the RAM. My board is overvolting the RAM about a tenth of a volt... I set 2.1 I get 2.2

I have reverted back to 0401 and the whole rig is running much cooler. It's not just a number glitch..the board runs much hotter on the 0701.

But it also holds in better at higher clocks too... Probably due to the over volts to th NB SB and DRAM..

Noticed no difference in V Drop on the Vcore form 040 to 0701...

What seems odd is there are so many different ways/settings to get a stable clock...I've tried at least a half dozen radically different voltage settings to run stable at 3600...

[Renegade5399]

No worries CyberD, this RAM quit in my 680i too. I doubt it was the board. A lot of people have to RMA the PC2 8500 Ballistix Tracers.

[devilhood]

Ok, according to AnandTech's review, 110 PCIE Frequency was safe.

They were wrong and now my RAID-0 array got screwed; well I 'think' it's the 110 PCIE Freq that caused the problem; basically I restarted after Vista applied all the updates, it came to the login screen, configured all the updates and then basically the HD drives stopped responding. The OS was left with a black screen and moveable mouse-pointer, no BSOD or crash. When I restarted I noticed that the POST hanged on Detect IDE, so I am assuming this is directly related to ICH9R instability. Could there be any other linkages to this issue?

This is pretty bad news for me because I had a years worth of Music Production work on it, so can anyone recommend me some good 'de-stripers' or techniques for RAID-0 recovery?
I have a spare HD that I can use to install a temporary OS on it for assisting recovery, so I'm up for all options really.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Warboy]

No worries CyberD, this RAM quit in my 680i too. I doubt it was the board. A lot of people have to RMA the PC2 8500 Ballistix Tracers.

Yea, I've even RMA'd my Crucial Tracer before, They wouldn't even hold 1066mhz at 2.25 volts O_o

Death of D9s are common tho. Anyways. Don't worry CyberD, Also, can you do a little test for me, See if Coretemp reads the same temps at the same clocks, or is 0404 truly cooler then 0701.

[CyberDruid]

Numerically yes I get a lower reading at idle and at load in BIOS 0401 than 0701. Core Temp (even with the patch/workaround) has stopped working in my Vista install on the Maximus even though it works fin n the P35 rigs. It does work in XP...but I am Folding in CVista...which is where I get my temps from...

Don't want to flash and reset everything right this minute but I will get some screenshots up later.

[Warboy]

Numerically yes I get a lower reading at idle and at load in BIOS 0401 than 0701. Core Temp (even with the patch/workaround) has stopped working in my Vista install on the Maximus even though it works fin n the P35 rigs. It does work in XP...but I am Folding in CVista...which is where I get my temps from...

Don't want to flash and reset everything right this minute but I will get some screenshots up later.

Alright, I just want it to be accurate on the temp readings before i flash all the way back to 0404

[TheSamurai]

Well my Ballistix are dead. Was running them in the white slots. Following settings: DDR2 1069, 4-4-4-10-2T, 2.34 volts, actively cooled. Since the RAM is rated for 2.2 I didn't think it was a big deal. This will be my 2nd RMA for these. The first set died in my 680i at DDR2 1200 5-5-5-15-2T, 2.3 volts. I may just sell these (after RMA) and see what else I can get.

So for now all I have is a stick of 1GB DDR2 533 OC'd to DDR2 600. Yielding me a cool 2.7 GHz, LOL.

i've heard that these sticks don't like anything past the normal volts no matter what is cooling it...

[TheSamurai]

One posting whore to another. Does it need a point?

[TheSamurai]

it's so odd, i didn't have any problems with temps while in 0701... i thought i did but it was ambient temps rising and me not realizing it. i have 0602 flashed right now. the pic below pretty much speaks for itself. thanks warboy!! also, just want everybody to remember that my probe voltages are higher then what i set in bios... almost everything gets over volted.