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

[fordf250]

Just got this mb the other day, wish I had the se water cooled mb.Trying to get the oc that other people get (e6600) when I have a good wc setup was getting crazy 1.65Vcore, pll 1.8v and nb 1.7-8 for 425fsbx9 with nb temps at 40C, good right? Wrong.

I now know it is all about cooling the nb. With a 100cfm 120mm fan over the nb, now running 475fsbx8, 1.5Vcore, nb 1.65V and pll at auto with 32C temps on nb with p95.

Now to see if I can get the same to work with the quad.

500fsb first with e6600 I think I will try.

[MiamiMuscleBoy]

Do you guys know why I am stuck at 465 fsb on asus maximus and what might be causeing DET RAM hang when trying to use ballistix ddr2 1066 sticks? I have gone over 475 fsb on other motherboards and all have no probelms with ballistix , i have had to use mushkin xp8000 sticks to get my board to post with new 0907 bios? e6750@3.73 465fsb , I dont know what trans booster or fsb strap should be set at I left everything auto except for cpu volt 1.55 and mem volt 2.4

[nvous23]

I installed XP SP3 and everything is great, but I can't get the audio drivers installed at all. I tried the setup exe and that fails, then i tried to manually update the driver by forcing it to install the INF and that didn't work either. Any suggestions?

[cuke2u]

I installed XP SP3 and everything is great, but I can't get the audio drivers installed at all. I tried the setup exe and that fails, then i tried to manually update the driver by forcing it to install the INF and that didn't work either. Any suggestions?

Hi, I've read somewhere that there is a problem with sp3 and hd audio. You might be better without the service pack until MS sort out this issue upon final release.
I've just found this acticle http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...2951&Itemid=38
Chris

[eSp!s0]

Hi, I've read somewhere that there is a problem with sp3 and hd audio. You might be better without the service pack until MS sort out this issue upon final release.
I've just found this acticle http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...2951&Itemid=38
Chris

I had problems with my OC-Bios for my 8800GTS with SP3. You are right in saying to wait for official release

[bummerboy]

Iadstudio : Hi there, I did try various fixed setting (non-auto) based of the forum here, anandtech and other oc forums. I noticed that most are quite similar, and i have exhausted almost all possible combination, and found that auto for most of them gives me least errors (etc superpi and orthos etc)

Timko : Wow thanks great new info. will try that next.

After my post earlier, i had turned down the core V to a super low 1.25V, reading about 1.21 on everest/cpuid. And it ran stable at stock speed 2.66 until now, idle cpu temp is at a ridiculous 18c? no possible coz my room is already 25! core at 40C, load to about 70+C.

I dont use occt, i did try othos and everest stability test. Previously on 1.32V, my load temp went to 100 on core1! but the sink doesnt feel hot at all. And i read so much about maximus bios not reading temp properly, yet my coretemp, everest, pcwizard all read the same temp back to me.

now i am suspecting perhaps the thermal grease is screwed, gotta go get a tube of AS5 soon.

[Rocinante]

I installed XP SP3 and everything is great, but I can't get the audio drivers installed at all. I tried the setup exe and that fails, then i tried to manually update the driver by forcing it to install the INF and that didn't work either. Any suggestions?

I'm running SP3, and was able to use the KB835221.exe ... I would not allow me to use the KB888111.exe ... after installing 835221, the sound drivers installed without a hitch...