The Maximus Formula Thread - Help/OCing/Guide/Rampage conversion

[Renegade5399]

Hey all, great thread. I just got a new setup (see sig) and im dying to overclock my q6600. It idles about 25C with the stock cooler at 100%. It's Go stepping aswell. However i'd just like to know how often these cpu's fail for no apparant reason (i.e not my fault.) Am I taking any real risk of being left out of pocket if i void the warranty? Also im having problems setting my BIOS to boot my ram at pc2-8500. I tried changing the default setting from auto up to the desired level in the bios and sometimes it boots and works fine for hours (once it gets past boot) but half the time it locks up and wont get past the 'Gamers Republic' splash screen. This is all happening on a maximus formula btw. Im on a septemberish bios revision i think.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer.

1. Update to BIOS 0903 or 0907

2. Do you have the LCD Poster hooked up? I'll bet it's hanging on DET DRAM.

3. Up your RAM volts. The board defaults to 1.8-1.9. PC2 8500 usually needs 2.0 minimum to boot right.

4. CPUs (especially these new Intels) don't just randomly fail for no reason. It's very rare to have a chip just "die".

5. You can disable the splash screen (ROG logo) in the BIOS so you can see where it's hanging, but the LCD poster is better for seeing what the issue is.

[Lambo]

Well i have found 907 to be the best one yet, i could not get stable on 400 fsb no matter what votages i used before, now i can get stable on 412x9 with only around 1.47 vcore and it just want to keep going, but my idle temps are around 35c and 52c after playing games, which means that the cores are at aroung 71-72 degress which im a bit worried about, i think im gonna lap the proccessor to see if it makes a difference