ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Robin77]

You have almost the same problem i did. It seems Auto is overvolting CPU/NB/etc.. specially when using an E6850. After setting them manually and setting up an 120mm fan to blow over NB and memory, i managed to get down arround 10 degrees Celsius, stable in Prime/Orthos. I'll post my settings later (not at home right now), maybe they help you with your E6850. Btw, i use now 0903 bios as the last one 0907 listed some very strange temperature readings on my E6850 (like 7-10 degrees Celsius even in Full Load). Take care !

I startet with the non beta version 8 BIOS (think 8.0.4 without looking), then I changed to 9.0.3 and now I run 9.0.7. I can confirm strange temp values, should be fixed with next official release.
I also had problems wirh all BIOS versions with multiple initial boots till boot went through to windows or even no boot staying at a black screen (fans running). The LCD showed there always detecting RAM, so I tryed to manually raise dram voltage. This helped (also tryed before to change RAM slots, but no change) and since this I have no problems with booting.

As you say it seems like auto settings overvoltage alot on this MB. The problem is to find the right default values, cause official Intel X38 Chipsetdocument specifies a big voltage range for NB and I really don't want to run 1000 prime tests to find the ideal value for all voltage settings...

All that said I have expected a bit more overclocking success with this MB thinking of it's price. But seems like my CPU can't get higher than 3500 MHz prime around the clock stable. I tried this with all possible values for FSB high/multi low and other way around and many voltage settings. RAM was never the limiting factor. Also disappointing that no vcore above 1,325 works, even if intel specifies it to 1,5v max...