ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[cuke2u]

For those who have successfully removed the motherboard heatsinks using the hairdryer method, can you give an estimate of the amount of time at high heat that was required to loosen the adhesive?
Is it possible to overheat the motherboard or MB components using the hair dryer?
I had an SE board, turned out to be bad, which I tried to get the heatsinks off to replace the adhesive with a more conductive compound and I was unable to do so. It wanted so much force to get it off that I got really nervous. I plan to try the same with my replacement Non-SE board and was hoping for a bit of guidance. Thanks.

Hi, mine came away quite easily without appying any heat, it just popped off. I then used nail varnish remover to get rid of the conductive compound, worked a treat and it came off very quickly by using a kitchen towel dipped in the remover...
Chris

[TheSamurai]

Old myth, some believe in it, never seen a definite test
The VID should be measured at idle, on default settings. It is the lowest vcore intel built in the CPU internal settings that the CPU could run.
Theorically, the lowest it is, the better OC headroom you have
My Q6600 G0 has a VID of 1.16v, so theorically, I could reach higher OC before increasing the vcore than a VID of 1.21 (I can't test, since I'm FSB limited)
Personally, I'm not convinced as my chip needs 1.39 vcore on load for 3.51GHz, not a world record... despite my VID

i checked mine under load so i'll check it again for the hell of it.

Wouldn't you be able to just take some fishing string and run it under the heatsink to cut through the glue?

neat idea!!!





okay, so right now i'm installing xp64 on my raptors in raid 0 with no slices/partitions so i can compare to when i slice/partition it. for some reason i can only get one slice so i guess i'll have to partition the rest to meet my needs. what are decent programs to test my HDs with? HD Tune?

[DMight]

Thanks Samurai, Cuke2u, et al. Wow, I'm hoping for an experience like Cuke2u, though given my previous struggles it's little more than a hope. We'll see. The board just arrived. It's a Non-SE with the Pin Fin Thermal Module, rev. 1.03g. Perfect for me as I'm not water-cooling.

I had a hell of a time with my SE board. It overclocked well, for my purposes anyway (400x9 16hrs prime95 stable), but I kept getting this odd behavior with my PCIE video card. It was just fine in 2D, but anytime I'd run a 3D app it would run great (Crysis, Gears of War, HL2), but if I quit the program and then tried to start another 3D app again the graphics would stutter and eventually freeze. This stuttering behavior would also demonstrate itself in 3D as simple as the spinning NVIDIA logo in NIVIDA Control Panel, which became my standard test to see if the error had occured...run a game, quit to desktop, open NVIDIA Control Panel and watch the stuttering logo. Very strange. This would happen with my overclock and then again when I set it back to stock speeds. Tried enabling and disabling everything in the system, several complete re-installs of the OS (XP64) and still no luck. Same thing with 3 different PCIE cards (7900GS, and 2 8800GTs). So, I concluded that there was something wrong with the PCIE port or bridge or something on the MB and RMA'd it. Fingers crossed that this new one works.