Maximus Extreme - Results/Info/Bios

[sdumper]

My 5ghz is on phase guys its not water or air so the OC is not anything spectacular...

[img=http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/5/12/25/t_501632m7771m_56132ce.jpg]

vCore 1.71 (real ... this is higher than I needed but I got frustrated after a few errors so just set it...)
NB 1.76
PLL 1.72
vDimm 1.94
vFSB 1.74

Now the important thing my temps were cold -45c evap and -28c real under a modded Mach II by Jinu

[tuchan]

under SS

SS, have you got a pic of this machine in action. Must be one heck of a SS unit, or you have one heck of a CPU! Ln2 time please

Oh yeah, great work

[3oh6]

Yes some voltage settings or bios shot would do wounders

all my voltages are in my 500FSB/DDR3-2000 screenshot a few posts back here, just click for full size and look in the upper right for the Everest readings. just keep in mind it is a dual core, not quad.

i think anyone posting screenshots here should help others by adding in the the Everest voltages since this board provides damn near everything for software to pick up...which is very nice for screenshots.

[sdumper]

all my voltages are in my 500FSB/DDR3-2000 screenshot a few posts back here, just click for full size and look in the upper right for the Everest readings. just keep in mind it is a dual core, not quad.

i think anyone posting screenshots here should help others by adding in the the Everest voltages since this board provides damn near everything for software to pick up...which is very nice for screenshots.

Great idea i will install and do so...

[3oh6]

Great idea i will install and do so...

hehe, you've already been showing them in your screenshots. heck, it was your screenshots that showed me Everest showed all the voltages. all except PLL i guess, just realized that. so thanks

now if there was just some software that would pick up the strap selection. i usually forget to add the text box with the strap i am on for some screenshots.

oh and...

Can someone post an everest score of 1800mhz and 7-6-6-15 for comparison purposes I am wondering if im missing a tweak somewhere which is slowing me down. Memset shot would be great too.

what strap were you on there and did you have AI Twister enabled, disabled, or AUTO. i can give you a comparison but the strap can play a role in bandwidth. so can the PerformanceLevel...do you happen to remember what that was?

adding Memset to all screenshots is helpful too, so that PeformanceLevel can be seen.

[sdumper]

[QUOTE]

hehe, you've already been showing them in your screenshots. heck, it was your screenshots that showed me Everest showed all the voltages. all except PLL i guess, just realized that. so thanks

now if there was just some software that would pick up the strap selection. i usually forget to add the text box with the strap i am on for some screenshots.

Yep since then I repartitioned my drives installed eram and set up a copy Wazza per your directions...thanks it does help!!

Also as I mentioned earlier I didnt really need that much vCore it seems so I lowered it:
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Now my strap is 333 I am having better stability results with that strap than 400. I have twister set to strong and the other setting set to disabled (cant think of the name of it but its the one that attempts to tighten the timings and instead messes them up) ....

[Nosfer@tu]

I did some pictures yesterday.
I had by mistake set my strapp for 333, but my board HATES that.
I have been told that it is because it is one of the first reversions.

Running 266 Strapp I can get the board to work and OC, But Im still frustrated over how hard it is to Oc with this board

I WILL UPDATE with new pics if we spot any wrong/bad settings.

































And the Frustrating message from the LDC POSTER, this happens when running Strapp 333 or OCing to much

[sdumper]

What bios version are you running? Also what ram and last I saw something odd in the reported vDimm and the set vDimm.

You set the vDimm to 1.90 which overvolts on my board to 2.0 and yet your dram voltage is showing 1.648 which is very low...

Im using the 9.x version off the asus site...

[HammerJacks]

Hey,

Imagine you had a retard walk in here and say, I want to overclock my system, and I do not have the slightest idea where to start, what would you say ??

Say he had, oh I don't know :

- Asus Max. Extreme running 904 BIOS on AIR
- Intel Extreme 3Ghz Quadcore 45nm Yorkfield (Zalman 9700 w/ AS5)
- CORSAIR TWIN3X4096-1600C7DHXIN G 4GB DDR3 Memory
- CM Power Pro 1000w PSU, Cooler Master Stacker 830, 8 case fans, Windows Vista Ultimate

So.. for a beginner as in COMPLETE BEGINNER at OC, where do I start? I know my way around the BIOS but never OC'd before. Would like to get 4Ghz out of this chip and would like to get some tight timings using this memory. I thought I would post here since many of you folks seem to know what your doing and I would rather ask those of you who use the same board I have. If anyone has the same setup could you share some info as to what I can attempt?

I appreciate the Voodoo and Black Magic lessons ;-)

[sdumper]

Sent you a pm

[Ja8on]

SD
I'm in pretty much the same situation as Hammer. I been reading this thread and you guys know what your doing. In the middle of my build. Maximus, Q6600 2gig Super Talent ProjectX 1600, XFX 512 8800GTS AD & 150gig RaptorX 500gig 7200.11 all bunged into a Stacker 831 running Xp pro(Haven't had much luck with Crapsta) Just trying to figure out my WC loop at the minute. D-Tek Fusion, Swiftech mcr220 on a mcp655. I'm only cooling the cpu & chipset atm. So I would be grateful if you could forward that pm on to me too and any useful links to get me started.

BTW Sorry guys for going off topic on this thread.

Ja8on

[Nosfer@tu]

What bios version are you running? Also what ram and last I saw something odd in the reported vDimm and the set vDimm.

You set the vDimm to 1.90 which overvolts on my board to 2.0 and yet your dram voltage is showing 1.648 which is very low...

Im using the 9.x version off the asus site...

Im running the new 0904 also.
I will just update my volt screenshots when I find the max prime95 stable Clock.
The reason to why I entered 1,9 Vdimm and you cant se it on the volt reading lines is I just entered it, dident apply and reboot. So my mistake mate.

ATM Im running 420x10 primestable. 1,55 Vcore I think.
1.9 Vdimm and everything else increased to the max of the "green" indicator colours.

After a short atempt a few days ago I hit 4965 Mhz and Superpi stable at 4930 Mhz

But Im aiming for highest Prime stable and then I will find max benchable speed

[sdumper]

SD
I'm in pretty much the same situation as Hammer. I been reading this thread and you guys know what your doing. In the middle of my build. Maximus, Q6600 2gig Super Talent ProjectX 1600, XFX 512 8800GTS AD & 150gig RaptorX 500gig 7200.11 all bunged into a Stacker 831 running Xp pro(Haven't had much luck with Crapsta) Just trying to figure out my WC loop at the minute. D-Tek Fusion, Swiftech mcr220 on a mcp655. I'm only cooling the cpu & chipset atm. So I would be grateful if you could forward that pm on to me too and any useful links to get me started.

BTW Sorry guys for going off topic on this thread.

Ja8on

PM sent

[sdumper]

Im running the new 0904 also.
I will just update my volt screenshots when I find the max prime95 stable Clock.
The reason to why I entered 1,9 Vdimm and you cant se it on the volt reading lines is I just entered it, dident apply and reboot. So my mistake mate.

ATM Im running 420x10 primestable. 1,55 Vcore I think.
1.9 Vdimm and everything else increased to the max of the "green" indicator colours.

After a short atempt a few days ago I hit 4965 Mhz and Superpi stable at 4930 Mhz

But Im aiming for highest Prime stable and then I will find max benchable speed

Hmm im surprised that the 333 strap is giving you problems I have had great luck with the 333 strap so far.

To be honest I am not concerned with prime stable since for what I run at (4.8ghz) I would quickly overheat running prime. What I mean is if I were to try and prime at 4.8 and 1.615 vCore I wouldnt last long since my SS simply cant dissipate that much load. That said I can game and burn videos and music just fine at 4.8 and never drop below an evap of -44c so I am ok without being prime stable.

[3oh6]

To be honest I am not concerned with prime stable since for what I run at (4.8ghz) I would quickly overheat running prime. What I mean is if I were to try and prime at 4.8 and 1.615 vCore I wouldnt last long since my SS simply cant dissipate that much load. That said I can game and burn videos and music just fine at 4.8 and never drop below an evap of -44c so I am ok without being prime stable.

stable is only as stable as you need it

for you guys looking for settings and examples of overclocks on this board, have a look at my OC Report for the Corsair Dominators in my signature.

i just posted it and it has 18 screenshots of various FSB clocks at 6-6-5, 7-6-5, and 8-7-6 timings. this basically covers the whole range of 400FSB upto and over 500FSB at PL5, PL6, and PL7. in all of the screenshots, the upper right hand corner has the various voltages that Everest picks up. might be helpful to some of the Maximus Extreme owners just to get an idea of what can be ran on this board. HTH

[peterpiper]

I'm having same problem as infa and Smooth regarding Nvidia problems and high overclock. I'm running a q6600@3.6, 7,7,7,15 (2Gb Cellshock 1800's) 8x450. If I try bump to 8x475, I start to get nvidia errors and eventually bsod?

[Nosfer@tu]

Hmm im surprised that the 333 strap is giving you problems I have had great luck with the 333 strap so far.

To be honest I am not concerned with prime stable since for what I run at (4.8ghz) I would quickly overheat running prime. What I mean is if I were to try and prime at 4.8 and 1.615 vCore I wouldnt last long since my SS simply cant dissipate that much load. That said I can game and burn videos and music just fine at 4.8 and never drop below an evap of -44c so I am ok without being prime stable.

Nice. That is QUITE a good temp.
I will have to se how far I can bring mine

stable is only as stable as you need it

for you guys looking for settings and examples of overclocks on this board, have a look at my OC Report for the Corsair Dominators in my signature.

i just posted it and it has 18 screenshots of various FSB clocks at 6-6-5, 7-6-5, and 8-7-6 timings. this basically covers the whole range of 400FSB upto and over 500FSB at PL5, PL6, and PL7. in all of the screenshots, the upper right hand corner has the various voltages that Everest picks up. might be helpful to some of the Maximus Extreme owners just to get an idea of what can be ran on this board. HTH

Great review mate
I dont need prime stable. Just want to find a max OC for 24/7 and then move on to Benchstable

[Aerobatic]

3oh6 -

thanks for your hard work with the ram timings.. its really helpful! will try configuring my ME when im back from hols.

-- Jez

[3oh6]

thanks and no problem guys. i just figured seeing a whole pile of examples of settings and such might be useful. there will likely be more OC Reports on this board if i can find time.

i just love the fact that Everest picks up all the voltages that it does, makes it so easy to have all of that information in screenshots. my first time with an ROG of course. i usually just get the Deluxe version and volt mod it

[sdumper]

3oh6 did those Corsair tests pass Memtest at the voltage and settings specified? Also what were your bios and real settings for 2.0? I have not measured the real voltage but it appears that the bios settings overvolt the ram a good bit.

You may have already specified that some where in your review but I didnt see it...

The reason I am asking is because I tried Memtest on my Crucials last night at 7-7-7-20 450fsb (1800mhz) and bios vDimm set to 1.9 and Memtest failed
Also I noticed you didn't go very high in the voltage testing with the Crucials only 1.95 as appossed to 2.15 with the dominators and the Crucials kept up at the same voltage.
Were you concerned that they would not be able to handle the voltage?

I suppose I am just trying to make myself feel better since I purchased 4 GB of the Crucials

[3oh6]

3oh6 did those Corsair tests pass Memtest at the voltage and settings specified? Also what were your bios and real settings for 2.0? I have not measured the real voltage but it appears that the bios settings overvolt the ram a good bit.

You may have already specified that some where in your review but I didnt see it...

no problem, i think it is in there but yes, my Maximus Extreme over-volts 0.10v at every voltage selection so 1.90v = 2.00v. the good thing is that Everest picks up the actual voltage so the voltage shown in all the screenshots is the actual voltage. i measured all the caps around the DIMM slots and they all scale with what the BIOS/Everest report for actual voltage.

as for Memtest, if you are talking about Memtest 86+, i generally just use it to make sure i am not going to bork my Windows install when i am finding my starting point for a particular timing set at the lowest voltage. i only run a couple loops of test #5 and if it doesn't error it is usually safe to go into Windows. after that though, i play by ear and don't use Memtest 86+ anymore because it is rather useless for testing stability in windows. dual 32M is a lot tougher a stability test than Memtest 86+. if you really want, i could test some of the different settings in Memtest 86+ to make sure it isn't spitting out false errors that are totally stable in Windows...don't rule that out either.

Also I noticed you didn't go very high in the voltage testing with the Crucials only 1.95 as appossed to 2.15 with the dominators and the Crucials kept up at the same voltage.
Were you concerned that they would not be able to handle the voltage?

if you read through the Crucial OC report, i mention that the P5K3-Dlx overvolts from the BIOS setting 0.06v so in reality, 1.95v was really 2.01 and at the same voltage, the Dominators walk away from the Ballistix.

the reason i held back on voltage was because at the time of that report, and even now, no one really knows what D9GTR/GTS can take for voltage. with the Ballistix history of not handling voltage all that well, i had no ambition to kill them just yet. plus, they were my only decent kit of DDR3 back then as well. it is a different story now so look for some updated clocks on the Maximus Extreme with the Ballistix and higher voltages.

I suppose I am just trying to make myself feel better since I purchased 4 GB of the Crucials

just keep in mind that the Ballistix only have one bin, the DDR3-1600 8-8-8 kit at 1.8v. that is very very conservative specs. with having only one bin, there is going to be more variation in their kits than you will find in the Domintaor DDR3-1800 7-7-7 kit at 2.0v because all of the Dominators are binned for that high of a frequency at those timings.

not all D9GTR will do that but all on the Dominators will because that is what they are binned for. you can't get a bad kit of those Dominators because if you do, they don't run spec, and you RMA. with the Ballistix, their spec is a lot lower so there is a possibility of getting only a good kit instead of a great kit. there is also the possibility of getting a killer kit.

you won't have the chance of getting a killer kit in say the DDR3-1600 7-7-7 kits of Corsair because if they were killer, they would have been DDR3-1800 Dominators...does that make sense?

[sdumper]

if you read through the Crucial OC report, i mention that the P5K3-Dlx overvolts from the BIOS setting 0.06v so in reality, 1.95v was really 2.01 and at the same voltage, the Dominators walk away from the Ballistix.

the reason i held back on voltage was because at the time of that report, and even now, no one really knows what D9GTR/GTS can take for voltage. with the Ballistix history of not handling voltage all that well, i had no ambition to kill them just yet. plus, they were my only decent kit of DDR3 back then as well. it is a different story now so look for some updated clocks on the Maximus Extreme with the Ballistix and higher voltages.


just keep in mind that the Ballistix only have one bin, the DDR3-1600 8-8-8 kit at 1.8v. that is very very conservative specs. with having only one bin, there is going to be more variation in their kits than you will find in the Domintaor DDR3-1800 7-7-7 kit at 2.0v because all of the Dominators are binned for that high of a frequency at those timings.

not all D9GTR will do that but all on the Dominators will because that is what they are binned for. you can't get a bad kit of those Dominators because if you do, they don't run spec, and you RMA. with the Ballistix, their spec is a lot lower so there is a possibility of getting only a good kit instead of a great kit. there is also the possibility of getting a killer kit.

you won't have the chance of getting a killer kit in say the DDR3-1600 7-7-7 kits of Corsair because if they were killer, they would have been DDR3-1800 Dominators...does that make sense?

I based my purchase off a review showing the Crucials doing some great things. I made the purchase instead of the dominators and am now having DDR3 envy lol.

Unfortunately for me I currently pay for the equipment I test and it gets fairly pricey so the Crucials will need to last me through my first round of cascade benching and then I will take a look around and see what I want to test next.

regardless I am running into some FSB constraints with my current CPU so would not be able to push the ram any higher than 480 fsb (960mhz anyway).

[OBR]

please post someone Everest score with 1800MHz memories.

I have 4GHz Yorkie + 22-5-6-7@1800MHz and Read is only 11200MB/s is it right score, or not?

[Infa]

I'm having same problem as infa and Smooth regarding Nvidia problems and high overclock. I'm running a q6600@3.6, 7,7,7,15 (2Gb Cellshock 1800's) 8x450. If I try bump to 8x475, I start to get nvidia errors and eventually bsod?

Its Really annoying, cant really figure it out either...

I got problems starting at 3.9, its a BSOD 0x00000124 ALLWAYS, same bsod.
think its the cpu dieing on my, couse bsod 0x0000124 are CPU,MEM,MB,GPU error, and i have no problem really with the others than cpu.. when i started with this board 4ghz bsod at beginning, and now 3.9 are the same bsod, that wasnt from the beginning.

And the Nvidia errors are starting with higher FSB, really think its my cpu messing around, couse i think the nvidia errors have been better since i installed SP1 a couple a days ago, try it if u can.. i noticed that 8x485 was on the edge, before it wouldnt go really and nvidia errors or the resolution changed when i entered win, but now it went better if i increased the Vmch, Strange this, i really want to test a Penryn on this board and see what happends, but february? gaah.. long time.... no one want to "give" there ES?

Maybe ill jump to X48, im a little pissed on this board actually, wolfdale and x48 will launch about the same time so..

Regards

[sdumper]

please post someone Everest score with 1800MHz memories.

I have 4GHz Yorkie + 22-5-6-7@1800MHz and Read is only 11200MB/s is it right score, or not?

http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img....jpg&srv=img29