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

[kup]

Added to first post with direct link!

MF1003.zip

[Prodigys]

it looks like your fsb term is a little low for 445fsb with 4 sticks. I wouldn't be surprised if more volts there gets you where you need for run Prime stable.

idk if the cpu pll will help you here. Sometimes bringing your sb volts up a notch can help with stability.

Thnx, I'm testing it asap...

[kup]

TRFC changes on new bios.

[Grnfinger]

Did you know?:
There was that guy "p$YcHo" at www.forudeluxx.de and he wrote to Asus again and again asking for a new bios with right temperatures and higher TRFC timings in bios and guess what
He got mail with new bios 1003 for Maximus Formula today.

Bios 1003(Beta) Maximus Formula:
Post http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/show...postcount=1334
Thread http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/show...449908&page=54

TRFC http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=19022008592gs4.jpg

OOooOOooOO I am itching to test this like junkie looking for a fix.

A very huge for sharing this golden nugget

Anybody have comments yet besides Kup?

[Eastcoasthandle]

I need to know for sure that this new bios works with the E8400

[kup]

New bios (1003) has the same issues as upgrading from <0901 to >0901, saved profiles just reset to "AUTO" on rebooting. You have to set it all again.

Aside from that, it seems quite nice. Not tested much, but there are changes. TRFC being a big one...

[eSp!s0]

p$YcHo wrote that there are no changes in temperatures of 45nm, too. He will asking for another bios now
But sb. wrote, that 65nm temperatures now seems right again after that issue with 0907.
TRFC is biggest change I read.
Anything else seems to be like in 0903 and 0907, but I didn`t try it out till yet.

That`s all I read at forumdeluxx.de.

[ZenEffect]

any better gtl contol on the new bios? im at work and it will be an hour and a half before i get home to try it out.

[kup]

any better gtl contol on the new bios? im at work and it will be an hour and a half before i get home to try it out.

Nope, from what I could tell (setting both as per normal) still the same two options, going to 0.63% and 0.67%...

[mickydisc]

I've came to the conclusion this set up with Dual prime95 4 hours @ 4.2 ghz vcore 1.60 , ilde 24c, load 63c. NB @ 1.65v load 40c, SB @ 1.20v 31c. The problem is that I cannot lower the vcore @1.60 in order to stable dual prime95. The vcore is way too much! It should be at vcore 1.45v and temps are too high with the Coolit Freezone...It must be the PSU Enermax Liberty 620 Dual rail @ 36amps lack of AMPS? My goals is to reach 4.7 ghz I think the PSU is holding it back!

[kup]

Well at least the tRFC is fixed. Cant wait to test!

It's fixed, but with odd values. I'm sure the bios screeny Tony had showed "54" being an option, and something which Tony recommended for 4 sticks of ram. But this bios has "55" as an option, and other odd ones like that...

[ZenEffect]

Nope, from what I could tell (setting both as per normal) still the same two options, going to 0.63% and 0.67%...

oh bugger

[kup]

oh bugger

Hopefully this isn't a final bios. It's listed as BETA so the final might have better options?

[Grnfinger]

I need to know for sure that this new bios works with the E8400

It was alittle iffy at first but the bios seems to work well once you figure out the memory settings so it will boot.



Going to run a little OCCT / Prime test and see if its still stable at my settings

[iadstudio]

Not sure how I feel yet about this bios. The 400 strap settings I had w/ 0907 would not boot. As a matter of fact 400+ fsb would not boot at all on the 400 strap. I'm up and 100&#37; now on the 333 strap at 400fsb, but performance is a little worse than 0907 bios.

It must be memory sub-timings that are effecting it, but I swear the board timings are much more loose on this version. Now that I'm at 400 x9 I'm not sure whether I should go for tighter timings and try to make up the performance gap from 0907 or if I should go for top frequency on this bios.

I'll start with the 400 strap and see where I get. I'm guessing this bios is designed for higher clocks needed for the 45nm processors coming out.

[iadstudio]

Well, this makes no sense, but I could not previously boot to 400 strap and now, after booting with transaction booster: disables, static read and clock twister: disabled/light, I can not boot with 400 strap, booster enabled, and twister strong. Those exact settings wouldn't work before.

The only change was settign wirte to read delay, read to precharge and write recover in the bios. Although there are more memory subtimings, they make no sense to me and never have. It just seems these setting in this bios is even more confusing.

I think I'll wait til' I get my other 2 sticks back to go much further.

[Zucker2k]

Title says it all

PS: PL 7 on 266 strap.

[tommithy]

Title says it all

PS: PL 7 on 266 strap.

Very nice!

[Zucker2k]

Very nice!

Thanks. Here is a little action on Server 2008 x64 RC1 and Vista 32bit RTM...

[Motobuddy]

I got the RMA back and everything seems fine now, thanks for all the help. Installed vista 64 this go around and the supreme-fx optical has quit working I saw the problem posted when I searched but never saw a answer. Is there one? Worked fine on XP.

[iTravis]

I've given up on 400x9 stable for now.
I was getting nothing but BSOD after a few minutes on OCCT.

Tried with the following settings:

CPU Ratio Setting : 9
FSB Frequency : 400
FSB Strap to North Bridge : 400
PCI-E Frequency: 100
Ai Clock Twister : Strong
Transaction Booster : Disabled
Relax Level 0 or 1

CPU Voltage : 1.4 - 1.56 (BIOS)
CPU PLL Voltage : auto - 1.6 (BIOS)
North Bridge Voltage : 1.45v -1.61 (BIOS)
DRAM Voltage : 2.1v (BIOS)
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.40v -1.56v (BIOS)
South Bridge Voltage : 1.075v (BIOS)
Loadline Calibration : Enabled
CPU GTL Reference : 0.63x
North Bridge GTL Reference : 0.67x
SB 1.5V Voltage : 1.50v (BIOS)

Am I still doing something wrong? Or could it be that my cpu is a dud?
Memtest turned out okay by the way.

What kind of memory you're using and r u running 4x1GB sticks or 2x2GB sticks? I have the same problem with 9x400 as well but I didn't get BSOD when running OCCT. It just either restarts or crashes after a few mins.
I only see BSOD when running 425x9 though. I haven't thought about giving it up yet eventhough it really makes me sick having 9x400 stable. Gotto give it another try, with new BIOS maybe.

[Nhawk]

Using 1003 BiOS, it all works as before (445*9 or 400*9 with E8400), but I still can't resume from Sleep mode, while E6600 worked fine (XP SP3 RC2)

[Den_Sjaekert]

What kind of memory you're using and r u running 4x1GB sticks or 2x2GB sticks? I have the same problem with 9x400 as well but I didn't get BSOD when running OCCT. It just either restarts or crashes after a few mins.
I only see BSOD when running 425x9 though. I haven't thought about giving it up yet eventhough it really makes me sick having 9x400 stable. Gotto give it another try, with new BIOS maybe.

Hi,

I have Team Xtreem 800mhz 4-4-4-10 with micron d9. I've tried both 2 and 4 sticks but neither work. ;P
My cpu is a g0 xeon, L747A470.

[Spyrus]

How hard it is to have tRFC in steps of one?
Abit Quad GT has them up to 70 with +1 increment?
Come on Asus it is not that hard...plz

[Dostoyevsky77]

Yay! New BIOS! P$ych0 and Kup, kudos.

Zucker, why does your Everest stepping say C0/M0??? What's M0???