ASUS Maximus Formula SE

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Im on chilled water bro and i can tell you that it does not help on this board all that much. I can sometimes get a 3dmark06 run in at 4 gig with q6600 but not very often. After playing with this board for one month now i have decided that the only way im gonna get 4gig+ is with an extreme chip with unlocked multiplier. My x38 dq6 runs a q6600 at for gig 24\7 with much lower cpu temps. I have had problems with many asus boards regarding cpu temps and cant figure it out .

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Im on chilled water bro and i can tell you that it does not help on this board all that much. I can sometimes get a 3dmark06 run in at 4 gig with q6600 but not very often. After playing with this board for one month now i have decided that the only way im gonna get 4gig+ is with an extreme chip with unlocked multiplier. My x38 dq6 runs a q6600 at for gig 24\7 with much lower cpu temps. I have had problems with many asus boards regarding cpu temps and cant figure it out .

Loc.o has showed that it's possible to OC good with the Formula and 4*1GB config:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...17&postcount=9

And the X38-DQ6 is crap when having 4*1GB Ballistix RAM and OC.

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Loc.o has showed that it's possible to OC good with the Formula and 4*1GB config:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...17&postcount=9

And the X38-DQ6 is crap when having 4*1GB Ballistix RAM and OC.

Im using 2x1024 mem Just loaded 802 bios and will give it a go

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Did you read any of my previous post? They all point to overclocking challanges when running 4 slots and overclocking at the same time. I and many serious overclockers since the birth of DDR have never fussed with overclocking 4 slots occupied. It put a major address load on the memory controller and is really only a bennifit for servers, not overclockers. 2 gb of RAM in 2 slots has prooven to be the most reliable for several years now. even dence RAM of 2gb x 2 is adding a challange.

You can do it but you now need to do a lot of relaxing and upping on some mobo volts.

For starters, try this. Keep strap and frequency to AUTO (1:1), up PCI-E to 111, open timings close to stock (usually 5-5-5-18 for 1066), Enable Static Read Control if using or wanting higher FSB, Disable DRAM Booster and relax to 3~5, set Ai Clock Twister to light. Up CPU GTL Ref to 63x, and chipset GTL Ref to 67x, FSBT to 1.47~1.50v, and NB to at least 1.5v~1.52v for the 450~485FSB range. Although, the 4 slot configuration is a compromise of a bit of less FSB on top of looser timings and yet a lil added mobo volts.

This should get you to Prime further. Scores will report a tad less on paper but you may never notice if you didnt see the numbers.

Let me know how it works

Well I am stable at 1066 (stock ballistix speed) with lower volts at northbridge and fsb.

My problem is with higher mhz or at 1000-1066 with tighter timmings (4-4-4-12)..

Loc.o has showed that it's possible to OC good with the Formula and 4*1GB config:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...17&postcount=9

And the X38-DQ6 is crap when having 4*1GB Ballistix RAM and OC.

Well I 've tried almost the same settings but when it boots in windows the mouse freezes or a bsod about usbuhci.sys appears when I try to move it

Tried raising southbridge voltage and ram but nothing...