ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[devilhood]

Please, woul dyou post the screens, it'll help many people. Still watching this board to get one

That setup I achieved has suddenly 'become' unstable recently.

This board is so temperemental it's like trying to feed food to a crying baby, seriously, I have no idea what is going on anymore.
Disabling DRAM Static Control at 400 FSB made Memtest86+ freeze after 20 minutes, but enabling it seemed to increases stability. That is completely the opposite of what AnandTech's review said. I'm mostly working with the 3:4 divider.

I'm still testing, but I hope the next BIOS comes out soon to fix the temp increase and voltage spikes.

[binormalkilla]

That setup I achieved has suddenly 'become' unstable recently.

This board is so temperemental it's like trying to feed food to a crying baby, seriously, I have no idea what is going on anymore.
Disabling DRAM Static Control at 400 FSB made Memtest86+ freeze after 20 minutes, but enabling it seemed to increases stability. That is completely the opposite of what AnandTech's review said. I'm mostly working with the 3:4 divider.

I'm still testing, but I hope the next BIOS comes out soon to fix the temp increase and voltage spikes.

First of all don't use Memtest86. It's total garbage for finding memory errors. It doesn't stress the RAM hard enough. OCCT is good, but this is bet ter and more precise:

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/
You can actually use up %100 of your RAM. I leave about 20Mb behind for running firefox or watching a TV show, etc so I can do something while it's running.
I would let it run to at least %400 coverage. After I do my initial stability testing I run it until %1000 while I'm at work. This typically takes ~ 8 hours.


Well I tried 0602 and I still can't OC past 400 FSB...:\
My CPU is stable at 3.6, so I'm going to set my multi back to 9 after I compare some of benches from my P5K that was at 3.4 GHz. I set the FSB to 378*8 for comparison....even though the RAM is slower it should be pretty close for Crossfire comparison.

BTW if anyone wants to have a look I'm comparing Crossfire performance between the P5K Deluxe and the Maximus. In game and 3dmark.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=165033

[devilhood]

I'm not a big fan of Memtest86+ either, but I usually use it for initial testing.
If I can clear 2 tests I then restart into Vista and run ORTHOS on Blend and Large FFT for while to be 100% certain.
I'll give that other Memtest program a go though, cheers for that.

[binormalkilla]

I'm not a big fan of Memtest86+ either, but I usually use it for initial testing.
If I can clear 2 tests I then restart into Vista and run ORTHOS on Blend and Large FFT for while to be 100% certain.
I'll give that other Memtest program a go though, cheers for that.

Hey NP man, you'll love it. I used to run Memtest bootable ISO until I had some RAM that was giving me crash to desktops......even though it passed Memtest86 for 8 hours! I downloaded HCI Memtest and it had errors within 15 seconds. Yea, Memtest86 FTL

Crossfire performance is excellent on this board. I got more than 1K points on this board compared to the P5K Deluxe. I was even running a lower FSB with a higher multi, thus lower RAM as well. I had a score of 17191 with the P5K using Crossfire and the same CPU internal clock.