ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[CyberDruid]

Hey guys to answer your questions, the gigabyte is an overall easier board to work with.....the first time i had it i exchanged it only because it was really bad with 4 sticks of ram, i now have only 2 sticks with the g.skill 4gb pc 1000, the gigabyte board let me be stable at 3.843ghz on my cpu, 427x9, and 1066mhz on my ram, but the asus maximus has a higher memory bandwidth and better latency with the same settings.......but overall im happy with the gigabyte, if the asus didnt have the voltage issue i would take that over the gigabyte, but as it stands now i like the gigabyte board a bit better than the maximus.

Also the OCCT issue seems to be present on the gigabyte board as well, the program doesnt crash, but the windows desktop crashes, when everything returns, all i have is occt still running and has not failed with a black background.....so im guessing occt caused something to go wrong and caused the corruption.....weird thing is its still running the program without errors........maybe this program is too unrealistic, i had this issue even at stock settings, no OC........this is on vista x64, im not sure about windows xp.

Sounds to me like you lowered your expectations

I am running 4 sticks of OCZ Platinum at 1066 and am really having no complains about the Maximus. I was not able to get 4.1 out oof the CPU...but then again this is not a DFI either

What I expect from Asus (easy clocking) and what I got (twitchy finnicky clocking) might put some people off. But honestly once you learn the board and take advantage of it's strengths it's a solid performer.

[devilhood]

I'm trying the Ports 3-5 strategy for my RAID-0 to see if that helps.. a lot of people mention this. *sobs* Bahhh.. I hate Intel

[safan80]

I'm trying the Ports 3-5 strategy for my RAID-0 to see if that helps.. a lot of people mention this. *sobs* Bahhh.. I hate Intel

this is why people should invest in an add in raid controller card. using onboard raid is a joke.

[CyberDruid]

this is why people should invest in an add in raid controller card. using onbaord raid is a joke.

I had the same issue on the DFI...it's the suck.

I use an Areca on the P5K and if the Maximus shows some real promise I'll run a RAM Disk on it for benching That makes HDD RAID look silly.

[devilhood]

this is why people should invest in an add in raid controller card. using onbaord raid is a joke.

Which one would you recommend? I'm not very familiar with RAID controller cards.

[safan80]

Which one would you recommend? I'm not very familiar with RAID controller cards.

areca cards are the fastest at the moment. I'd suggest you get at least 8 ports if you want to make it worth it. the 12port and up cards have upgradeable cache memory. but with the current bioses on the MF you might want to wait.
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