Maximus Extreme - Results/Info/Bios

[3oh6]

Hmm whats 2N?

its 2T...just that 1T/2T isn't really 1T/2T, its just another timing that is actually 1N/2N mode according to Intel spec i believe.

[OBR]

all my problems with stability solved - one of my memories was damaged and caused unstability! With new ddr3 corsairs i am at 450MHz with pretty low voltages ...

[defektus]

Hey guys , whats the deal with new bios version...did they put on the right one cus I checked and they have different size for extreme/formula ?

825,948 ME0907.zip

825,882 MF0907.zip

[Smooth]

It seems to be wrong named cause u can not flash it and all former ME BIOSes have aprox. 850kb.

[defektus]

Tnx for the answer...strange tho that Asus doesn't correct its mistake.

[Smooth]

Tnx for the answer...strange tho that Asus doesn't correct its mistake.

Doesnt seems so. They also put a Blitz-Bios in the ME-directory a few weeks ago ... you can still find it there.

I wrote ASUS a mail pointing on their mistake - still no response though.

[Smooth]

Now something happend on the ASUS-FTP :
ME0907 had been deleted.
and 0905 ist new ( haven´t tried yet )
ME0905

[Infa]

hehe someone goin to try it?

[ph33rgear]

I'd try it, I have a fresh install/build so nothing to loose, but the damn website never works fine... get a timeout everytime i try to download it...

[Smooth]

I have flashed 0905 ... realized no change so far.
edit :
now I realized that Vcore seems to be higher than before ( 0,01V ) and absolutly no vdroop !

[azza21]

my 480 is not fully stable, even is not stable 450 too ... i cannot to use higher NB voltage then 1.65 the i have BSOD every second ... but temp of NB are 30C - is watercooled by swiftech block, this board is not too higher fsb clocker ...

I have a QX6850, this board, cellshock 1800 ram and 2x 1gb 2900xt in CF and i am having the same problems as you OBR. I find anything over 430/440fsb i hit stability problems. Also having major issue's with the ram. When i do a ram test with OCCT after 15 mins it always seems to crash. even with loose timings of 8-7-6-21 i am hitting the same issue's. The problem is i am running 2.10volts through my ram i do not want to run more then that for 24/7 use. Also tried switching the ram sticks, no difference. Does anyone have any idea's where i am going wrong?

Ratio CMOS Setting : 9
FSB Frequency : 440
FSB Strap to North Bridge : 333
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: DDR3- 1440
DRAM Command Rate : 1760
DRAM Timing Control: 2T
CAS# Latency : 7
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 7
RAS# Precharge : 7
RAS# ActivateTime : 20
Ai Clock Twister: STRONG

CPU Voltage : 152500
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.68
North Bridge Voltage : 169
DRAM Voltage : 2.10
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.56
South Bridge Voltage : auto
Loadline Calibration : Enabled
CPU GTL Reference : 0.63x
North Bridge GTL Reference : 0.67x

d-tek cpu block
Laing 12v Pump with flow
XSPC res
PA60.3 Rad
2x EK-600 GPU blocks
using: 1/2 tubing


CPU temps idle: 35C/ Load: 58/59C on OCCT after 30 mins.
NB: 45C
SB: 36C

[3oh6]

well, here is something that has made me look stoopid for the last couple days. i couldn't figure out why i couldn't get certain clocks 32M stable on a bunch of different kits of memory that i had in the past...apparently switching from BIOS 0803 to 0904, the vDIMM now only overvolts 0.06v instead of the full 0.10v that it use to. took me only two days to figure that out

so now the question is, Everest still reads the full 0.10v over what is selected in the BIOS but the board is supplying 0.04v less...is there anyway to put an offset on the vDIMM reading in Everest so the reading displays the correct voltage and i don't have to add the vDIMM to a small text file? i am digging through the .ini file now without much luck. any ideas???

the real kicker is that the testing i did for the OC Report for the Ballistix in my signature was actually 0.04v less than i had previously thought...

8-7-6-X 1T:
Intel X38:
Click link for full size screenshot...
1032MHz :: 2.10v

it was actually only 2.06v

as soon as the sun comes up i will take a couple pics of the vDIMM read points i have been using. they read exactly what the VDD from the actual DIMM slot is reading.

[pakko]

I have a QX6850, this board, cellshock 1800 ram and 2x 1gb 2900xt in CF and i am having the same problems as you OBR. I find anything over 430/440fsb i hit stability problems. Also having major issue's with the ram. When i do a ram test with OCCT after 15 mins it always seems to crash. even with loose timings of 8-7-6-21 i am hitting the same issue's. The problem is i am running 2.10volts through my ram i do not want to run more then that for 24/7 use. Also tried switching the ram sticks, no difference. Does anyone have any idea's where i am going wrong?

Ratio CMOS Setting : 9
FSB Frequency : 440
FSB Strap to North Bridge : 333
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: DDR3- 1440
DRAM Command Rate : 1760
DRAM Timing Control: 2T
CAS# Latency : 7
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 7
RAS# Precharge : 7
RAS# ActivateTime : 20
Ai Clock Twister: STRONG

CPU Voltage : 152500
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.68
North Bridge Voltage : 169
DRAM Voltage : 2.10
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.56
South Bridge Voltage : auto
Loadline Calibration : Enabled
CPU GTL Reference : 0.63x
North Bridge GTL Reference : 0.67x

d-tek cpu block
Laing 12v Pump with flow
XSPC res
PA60.3 Rad
2x EK-600 GPU blocks
using: 1/2 tubing


CPU temps idle: 35C/ Load: 58/59C on OCCT after 30 mins.
NB: 45C
SB: 36C

I have same ram cpu and ofc mobo and i can't boot at 9x450 too...

Any news about 0905??

[sdumper]

well, here is something that has made me look stoopid for the last couple days. i couldn't figure out why i couldn't get certain clocks 32M stable on a bunch of different kits of memory that i had in the past...apparently switching from BIOS 0803 to 0904, the vDIMM now only overvolts 0.06v instead of the full 0.10v that it use to. took me only two days to figure that out

so now the question is, Everest still reads the full 0.10v over what is selected in the BIOS but the board is supplying 0.04v less...is there anyway to put an offset on the vDIMM reading in Everest so the reading displays the correct voltage and i don't have to add the vDIMM to a small text file? i am digging through the .ini file now without much luck. any ideas???

the real kicker is that the testing i did for the OC Report for the Ballistix in my signature was actually 0.04v less than i had previously thought...

Have you measured the voltage or are you trusting what the bios is telling you? I have been putting my trust in everest for the vdimm readings because I dont want to toast my crucials (at least not yet).

[3oh6]

Have you measured the voltage or are you trusting what the bios is telling you? I have been putting my trust in everest for the vdimm readings because I dont want to toast my crucials (at least not yet).

the measured voltage is now 0.04v lower than what Everest/BIOS are reporting. before, the measured voltage was bang on with what Everest/BIOS were reporting.

for example...
BIOS set...BIOS/Everest...DMM measured
1.74v......1.84v..........1.80v
1.90v......2.00v..........1.96v

i'm using a calibrated RMS multi-meter from a VDD pin on an open DIMM slot. you can also use the circled capacitors for measuring as they report the same as the VDD pin:



there are a bunch of capacitors up and down the DIMM slots that work as well, just probe around if these don't work for you. these ones are easiest to get at on the outside of the white DIMM slot in-between the slot and the 24-pin connector.

[azza21]

I have same ram cpu and ofc mobo and i can't boot at 9x450 too...

Any news about 0905??

So that's 3 people with and 6850 spec CPU that's having similar issue's. I am more concerned with the memory though tbh as i know the qx6850 can be quite limited after 3.8ghz, I should have hung on and waited for Intel's next gen 45nm CPU's, but i'm not patient enough
Ha anyone interested in buying an QX6850

I haven't tried the 0905 update yet I will let someone else test it first.

[sdumper]

the measured voltage is now 0.04v lower than what Everest/BIOS are reporting. before, the measured voltage was bang on with what Everest/BIOS were reporting.

for example...
BIOS set...BIOS/Everest...DMM measured
1.74v......1.84v..........1.80v
1.90v......2.00v..........1.96v

i'm using a calibrated RMS multi-meter from a VDD pin on an open DIMM slot. you can also use the circled capacitors for measuring as they report the same as the VDD pin:



there are a bunch of capacitors up and down the DIMM slots that work as well, just probe around if these don't work for you. these ones are easiest to get at on the outside of the white DIMM slot in-between the slot and the 24-pin connector.

Maybe this is why I couldnt do 7-7-7-14 at 1800 memtest stable at vdimm 2.0 in bios.

[Smooth]

Made some wierd expirience with 0905 :
I flashed it ... and keept some time normal surfing and using my pc... nothing special so far ... when I got some time off I though " Hey man, let´s see if 0905 brings some better performance in oc"
So I started to oc a bit further ( starting from 400MHz FSB ) ...
I set 450 and checked it with OCCT - within five minutes I got errors.
So I switched some values und checked again : error
Then I got down to 425 cause I know my CPU can do this @ 1,43Vcore : errors !
Telling long story short - after it seems to be impossible to get a stable sys (and I ran out of time ) I loaded my profile@400MHz ( which was stable ).
But now I got errors in usual Windows-"work".
I got a bit confused and thought it must be the BIOS-version.
So back-flash to 0803, load profile : errors in OCCT
flashed to 0904 , load profile : errors again
I started to get affraid that something got broken ...
I reduced to only one Cellshock 1800-Kit and again OCCT : no errros
I changed the RAM-Ports with the same RAM-KIT : no errors
My conclusion : the fault is not the CPU, not the MB and not RAM-Kit No1
To verify I changed to RAM-Kit No2 ...
no errors neither in the one blue nor in the white RAM-Ports.

OK... very wierd : it not the MB, not CPU, not RAM-Kit No1 and not RAM-Kit No2 !

In the end after all : all works fine @ BIOS 0905 now again.

Very strange behavior of the MB.

[pakko]

U r scaring me man o_O

[OBR]

This mobo is weird at all, i am now fully stable at 450MHz with new memories. But nothing more, i need 500MHz but is not possible ... i will test X38 DFI instead of Asus ... will see

[pakko]

ME1001.zip out on asus tw ftp..

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...ximus_Extreme/

[Z3R0-CooL]

did u try it??

[pakko]

Nope :P

[OBR]

tried, nothing improved by me ...

[Z3R0-CooL]

but did it install without problems? the ME1001 i mean..?