ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Grnfinger]

Already tried 400 strap.Trans booster enabled or disabled or auto didnt matter.Could not post.333 strap trans booster enabled didnt post.ill give it a shot with booster disabled now.Will it give me better performance than auto?If not why should i even bother?

I've never tested auto setting

[ChaosAD]

I've never tested auto setting

I hope you are testing auto setting now and give me a full review

[Cornel]

hmm... i dont want to read 200 pages...
Simple question...
Is this motherboard any good? for OC'ing and Quad Q6600 cpu?

[ChaosMinionX]

hmm... i dont want to read 200 pages...
Simple question...
Is this motherboard any good? for OC'ing and Quad Q6600 cpu?

Yes, its a fantastic board

[ChaosAD]

Ok i can boot with 333 strap and trans booster disabled.I also run everest cache and menory benchmark.With Trans booster disabled i seem to have a slight overall increase on read/write/copy benchamarks over the auto setting.

Now about the 47 min prime95 hung up.I raised the NB Volt @ 1.51 in bios (1.55 in everest).I now got a bsod around 49 min.So i think i ll have to raise it more.The only good thing is that NB temp according to Everest didnt raise at all.48C under full load.

Going to test more...Too much trouble for just 3,4Ghz

[mouawad]

Is OCCT buggy or not ( 1.1.0) after a day tweaking I decided to to disable everything (transaction booster/dram static) now it isnt even stable with all off and even downclocked to 1:1 ( 425 fsb) 850 5-5-5-15 , what the heck is going on. The ram was memtest86+ stable for 13-14 hours. I havent prime yet, but from my experience if it is memtest86+ stable it would be prime95 stable. and this ram was tested @ my P5K deluxe...... So am I good as long it is prime blend stable for say 12 hours+? It could be while testing during OCCT it corrupted my OS, maybe thats why it will error with any clocks? Because during tests I had a view times My whole screen went black or Pink or White...

i've always found memtest86+ to be worthless apart from testing good or bad sticks.

for overclock testing it is garbage compared to prime and occt ...even super-pi.

[binormalkilla]

Here I am stable DDR2-1128 5-5-5-15 FSB Strap 400




Evest Memory bench: (write could be better...)

[ElEctric_EyE]

to quote :

The Maximus Formula Special Edition motherboard is based on the Intel X38 Northbridge chipset and the Intel ICH9R Southbridge chipset. It supports Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, Pentium D , Pentium 4 Extreme Edition and Celeron D4xx Processors, with Hyper-Threading Technology and 800/1066/1333/1600MHz Front Side Bus support.



I'm not kidding guys, i DID see that hyperthreading option in my bios. I was in the section where you have C1E, TM, Vanderpool, etc..... it was located at the very bottom of that list, now it's a blank blue line.......

And I swear I saw when I first worked the BIOS it enabled me to do a 10x multi. Now I realize that isn't possible unless I had an engineering sample. Otherwise I was seeing things. Don't trust you eyes 100% unless they're electric.

[doronav02]

i'm almost there (play with vtt ref.nb.pll.vtt)
any suggestion?
my settings
vcore 1.75(temp OK)
fsbt(vtt) 1.7
pll 1.8
nb 1.8 (temp OK)
NOT 100% just for super pi 1m

[ReZ_]

Maybe you have got another mobo then a Maximus as in your sig lol, as you also talk about settings that are not really in the Asus bios engineers dictionary...

soz mate no Hyperthreading here either... with Q6600, could well be it's mentioned in the manual as the board supports CPU's that have hyperthreading

care to explain why my board bios is different from yours?



that last empty line is where i saw the hyperthreading option. There is a slight chance that what i saw was SpeedStep, not HyperThreading. The value was ENABLED when i saw it. It did have "intel" written, that i am 100% sure. There once was a time when i did have the "cpu ration control" option, maybe it was with another bios... BTW, none of my settings were left to "auto".

[Hockster]

The 907 BIOS did change a number of options. Are you two running the same version?

[CERO]

Mine got Speedstep oO, after switching between 0802/0903/0907 on the last line

[ReZ_]

Mine got Speedstep oO, after switching between 0802/0903/0907 on the last line

That's what i was talking about. I'm not insane after all.

Now watch that option DISSAPEAR!!

[CERO]

ReZ your not Insane idd LOL, I got this speedstep ,I just remembered after I performend the BIOS flash IN windows I thought to flash from 0907 to 0802, then I reflashed again with 0802 with EZ-flash, and suddently there was a speedstep LOL, which was never before there, but now it is still there, I could take a picture later on if u want

[CERO]

Oke I just found out how to get "" Intel Speedstep" under cpu configuration. This option appears as soon u put CPU ratio : Auto , so not 8x or 9x then u look @ cpu config there u see Intel speedstep:X

[ReZ_]

You're right!

thanks mate.

[CERO]

u put me into thinking , np m8

[ShawnTRD]

ASUS's FTP site been taken down? Should have new BIOS soon right?
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...aximus_Formula

[Cumulonimbus]

ASUS's FTP site been taken down? Should have new BIOS soon right?
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...aximus_Formula

Hi,

try this: :-)

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socke...aximus_Formula

Greets,
Cb

[CERO]

yea it is about time for a new BIOS!

[Krav]

Krav : what bios are you using?? I have stable settings at 3.4 on 0903 bios.

yes im using 0903

[Krav]

This is my 3.4GHz setting BIOS 907

Extreme Tweaker
Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 8
FSB Frequency : 425
FSB Strap to North Bridge : 400MHz
PCI-E Frequency: 110
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-1133
DRAM Command Rate : 2T
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency : 5
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 5
RAS# Precharge : 5
RAS# ActivateTime : 15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : AUTO
Row Refresh Cycle Time : AUTO
Write Recovery Time : AUTO
Read to Precharge Time : AUTO

Read to Write Delay (S/D) : AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S) : AUTO
Write to Read Delay (D) : AUTO
Read to Read Delay (S) : AUTO
Read to Read Delay (D) : AUTO
Write to Write Delay (S) : AUTO
Write to Write Delay (D) : AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: AUTO
Ai Clock Twister : Strong
Transaction Booster :Enabled
Boost Level: 0

CPU Voltage : set what you need here
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.52
North Bridge Voltage : 1.49
DRAM Voltage : 2.0
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.40
South Bridge Voltage : 1.050
Loadline Calibration : Enabled
CPU GTL Reference : Auto
North Bridge GTL Reference : Auto
DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage : AUTO
DDR2 Controller REF Voltage : AUTO
SB 1.5V Voltage : 1.5


These settings passed 24 prime 12 hour OCCT

hey thanks, on the set what you need bit on cpu voltage how do i know what i need? thanks

[Grnfinger]

hey thanks, on the set what you need bit on cpu voltage how do i know what i need? thanks

I would start about 1.375 (depending on your VID) and raise or lower till it's stable
I have a VID of 1.325 and I need about 1.42 for PRIME and OCCT to be stable

[ElEctric_EyE]

Good eyes ReZ & mc2k. I see what you guys are talking about: When the multiplier is set to auto in Extreme Tweaker in BIOS 0802, the "Intel Speedstep" option is all of a sudden present in the "Advanced" Menu under CPU Config menu... You weren't seeing ghosts after all. My question is to you guys with newer BIOS's is, is the same true for you guys. I'm on 0802 now. When I got this board, the newest release was 0901, and that's where I started. Lotsa work to get back to older BIOS's with us peeps with 64bit OS's...

[CERO]

Good eyes ReZ & mc2k. I see what you guys are talking about: When the multiplier is set to auto in Extreme Tweaker in BIOS 0802, the "Intel Speedstep" option is all of a sudden present in the "Advanced" Menu under CPU Config menu... You weren't seeing ghosts after all. My question is to you guys with newer BIOS's is, is the same true for you guys. I'm on 0802 now. When I got this board, the newest release was 0901, and that's where I started. Lotsa work to get back to older BIOS's with us peeps with 64bit OS's...

I can confirm it, it is also present in the newer BIOS, right now I am on 0903