ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[plool]

I thought I would quickly post my experience with this motherboard.

Assembled machine with an E6850 and 4GB of Kingston HyperX PC8500 memory. No matter what I tried, could not get the memory stable on this motherboard at any speed or by adjusting any of the BIOS settings. I had two pairs of memory, and it is highly unlikely all 4GB sticks were faulty. I had tried individual sticks, 1 pair, and 2 pair. The sticks were stable in a different brand motherboard and passed memtest86 without any problems there.

I ended up purchasing 4 1GB Corsair PC8500 and right from the start those were stable. The only adjusting I had to do with the BIOS is set the RAM to 2.2V and specify the speed at 1066--everything else set to AUTO. RAN OCCT and PRIME95 for two nights and had no problems.

Anyone else have luck with Kingston memory on this board? My experience was very bad and spent many hours trying to fiddle with the BIOS and had no success.

[Cumulonimbus]

Hi,

wich Memory should i buy for Maximus Formula?

At moment i use 4x 1GB (2x Kit) Corsair Twinx2048 XMS2-6400C4 Rev. 2.1@2.1V, but i can't get it stable under Vista x64.

Tonight (MET) i will buy new Memory. 2x2 GB in a Kit, but wich Memory works at Maximus Formula perfect?

What i need:

1. 100% stable Memory for Dualchannel + option to extend to 8 GB (4x2 GB)
2. DDR2-800 who can make 450-500 MHz (to overlock Q6600 to 3400GHz)
3. Latency 5-5-5-15/18 @ 500 MHz

thanks for help

[DeViTTo]

Hi,

wich Memory should i buy for Maximus Formula?

At moment i use 4x 1GB (2x Kit) Corsair Twinx2048 XMS2-6400C4 Rev. 2.1@2.1V, but i can't get it stable under Vista x64.

Tonight (MET) i will buy new Memory. 2x2 GB in a Kit, but wich Memory works at Maximus Formula perfect?

What i need:

1. 100% stable Memory for Dualchannel + option to extend to 8 GB (4x2 GB)
2. DDR2-800 who can make 450-500 MHz (to overlock Q6600 to 3400GHz)
3. Latency 5-5-5-15/18 @ 500 MHz

thanks for help

Go for Crucial Ballistic BL2KIT12864AA1065 2GB kit will clock to over 1200 at 5,5,5,15 or 1066 at 4,4,4,12 on this board excellent memory.

I'm at 600mhz at 5,5,5,15 stable all day long,

If your in the UK try overclockers.co.uk £79 +vat

[Renegade5399]

Go for Crucial Ballistic BL2KIT12864AA1065 2GB kit will clock to over 1200 at 5,5,5,15 or 1066 at 4,4,4,12 on this board excellent memory.

I'm at 600mhz at 5,5,5,15 stable all day long,

What volts? Mine are on their way back for the 2nd time. They last about 4-6 months, then die.

[Warboy]

My Ballstixs are not playing well with these motherboard at all. Sometimes I have to remove one stick to get the system to post.

[binormalkilla]

My Ballstixs are not playing well with these motherboard at all. Sometimes I have to remove one stick to get the system to post.

Yea mine are the same. I actually had to buy a stick of value RAM to get this motherboard to POST for the first time.
The reason is that Ballistix need more voltage than 1.8V (DDR2 standard) so I have to install 1 stick of DDR2-667 Kingston Value RAM, POST, go to the BIOS and set the VDIMM to 2.16, reboot, enter the BIOS to check the VDIMM, then hard shutdown and install my 4 sticks of Ballistix. It WILL NOT boot any other way for me!

[Warboy]

Yea mine are the same. I actually had to buy a stick of value RAM to get this motherboard to POST for the first time.
The reason is that Ballistix need more voltage than 1.8V (DDR2 standard) so I have to install 1 stick of DDR2-667 Kingston Value RAM, POST, go to the BIOS and set the VDIMM to 2.16, reboot, enter the BIOS to check the VDIMM, then hard shutdown and install my 4 sticks of Ballistix. It WILL NOT boot any other way for me!

I mean, not even with the right volts, Like i wanted to push 2.6 volts with ultra low timings and low clock rate, and the motherboard failed to post.

I can't even post at 2.6volts with 4-4-4-4 timing and a clock of 1050mhz no matter what memory strap.

[DeViTTo]

What volts? Mine are on their way back for the 2nd time. They last about 4-6 months, then die.

Im at 2.10V in bios 2.19V in windows,

Yes to one of the posts 4GB installed

[CERO]

Go for Crucial Ballistic BL2KIT12864AA1065 2GB kit will clock to over 1200 at 5,5,5,15 or 1066 at 4,4,4,12 on this board excellent memory.

I'm at 600mhz at 5,5,5,15 stable all day long,

If your in the UK try overclockers.co.uk £79 +vat

what voltage are u running , I assume you run 4x1GB?

[Langley]

Go for Crucial Ballistic BL2KIT12864AA1065 2GB kit will clock to over 1200 at 5,5,5,15 or 1066 at 4,4,4,12 on this board excellent memory.

I'm at 600mhz at 5,5,5,15 stable all day long,

If your in the UK try overclockers.co.uk £79 +vat

I confirm... i am stable at 1200mhz 5-5-5-5 with 4 x 1gb of crucial pc8500 at 2,25V from bios and at 1066mhz 4-4-4-4 at 2,20V from bios.
The crucial run very good with this mobo!

[mXpS]

I confirm... i am stable at 1200mhz 5-5-5-5 with 4 x 1gb of crucial pc8500 at 2,25V from bios and at 1066mhz 4-4-4-4 at 2,20V from bios.
The crucial run very good with this mobo!

is this with the 802 BIOS?

[Langley]

is this with the 802 BIOS?

0505 the best for me... 0802 under test....

[ChaosMinionX]

0802 still seems to have the divider issues somewhat.... I am still reworking..

Any change logs yet? they must have loosened the NB timings again, or changed the way the performance options work because now I can boot with DRAM STATIC READ and DRAM CLOCK TWISTER set to Enabled/STRONG.... had to set Transaction Booster to Disabled (1) to get it stable.

My speeds went up at 450x8 DDR2 900 4-4-4-8-3-25-3-3-7-5-4-6-4-6