ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Nuckin_Futs]

I sat on the fence for along time, dual or quad
I know quad is a tad harder to oc and really I am happy with bios 802 so flashing to 903 is really not an issue, but I would like to know why I cant get 450x8 stable when it once was. Its begining to consume all my free time

I cant say for sure. But are you trying with a devider? I noticed that with each recent BIOS, it is tweaking deviders and not realy anything major. So try 1:1 and should be good and and even go beyond that if you know your CPU was good for the FSB to begin with. The quads make high FSB and a devider a bit of a chalange. The other big thing I notice is the strapping for these 1066 chips. stick with Auto and choose deviders for your defult FSB if you want to try them. Just an idea, worked for me.

They were static, but seemed high. I had to reseat my Ultra-120 just to be sure, and I did it with a Loonie (Canadian dollar coin) and it's solid as hell now.

The temps I get are pretty consistent, but 8 -10 degrees higher in PC Probe than in CoreTemp



At 4.0 I had 45 degrees idle and as high as 69 under moderate load, but it wasn't stable. Voltage was 1.49.

I could run 3DMark06 but not OCCT. OCCT got me a BSOD.

Anyway, I am running at 3.6 quite stable at 1.44v around the same temp on PC Probe of 45 idle and 65-70 load.

I haven't done CoreTemp yet, because I have to reboot and disable driver signing on my Vista 64, which causes my G15 LCD not to work for some reason....

This sounds normal for the recent BIOS. But if you get 9-10 higher then what BIOS and Everest cores 1&2 temps read then it may be something else. I only had this weirdness on one other ASUS as the P5WD2 premium and it never got resoled and yet no matter what app I used, it read the same so I figured it to be a thermister/sensor issue. It performed the same, just had to know the temps were off so I had to up threashold and stuff lke that.

I'm sure it's something different though here. Keep us posted, cause I have not seen this in any BIOS version so far, other then the pre 602 that read the CPU IHS temp to BIOS (the lower of the 2 temps).