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

[ericab]

Bios 1004

Corsair Dominator 8500C5D 8GB total 5-5-5-15-5-55-5-5.....

Fine tuning settings more, but 1004 allows 5:6 flawlessly from what I can tell.

EDIT:

The new 8500 4GB kits from Corsair rock , they do 2.0v 1081 5-5-5-15-4-50-4-4 on X38, with AI Clock Twist - Strong, Transaction Booster - Disabled (1) on Bios 1004. I would say thats awesome

wish i had your experience;

re-flashed again, from 907 to 1004, and still a no go. cmos error, with settings manually entered.

[ante_ante]

Can i use asusupdate in Vista x64 ? And 1004 works for SE versions right ??

[peebi]

Can P5E do it

[cuke2u]

Can i use asusupdate in Vista x64 ? And 1004 works for SE versions right ??

Hi, no use the tool that's built into the bios, SE - yes...
Chris

[zanzabar]

so why cant it work the other way if u can flash to a rampage then why not back to a maximus since it would just need to rereplace the code

[BenchZowner]

tRD is also in formula but if i try at 450 fsb for 6 then no go.
Maybe the two phases can help as seen here http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3208&p=3

You need higher chipset voltage to lower the performance level.

[ante_ante]

Already flashed to 1004 now with asusupdate and it works fine. Now the ½ multi showing to Need to buy an USB-memory for EZ-flash later

[mrlobber]

Nice one

However, too bad all those X38 boards usually are not so good or suck for high fsb So the only benefit I see from doing this would be to get straight Performance Level control in bios (without all the mess trying to figure out the default PL value for certain strap/fsb combinations offset by Transaction Booster) as well as additional memory tweaking options, which itself are very nice indeed

[jonny_ftm]

Would be really interesting to check maximum stable FSB on a quadcore with this bios. It will show if it's the maximus bios that s**ks or it is the PCB design

[Darkstormz]

Bios 1004

Corsair Dominator 8500C5D 8GB total 5-5-5-15-5-55-5-5.....

Fine tuning settings more, but 1004 allows 5:6 flawlessly from what I can tell.

EDIT:

The new 8500 4GB kits from Corsair rock , they do 2.0v 1081 5-5-5-15-4-50-4-4 on X38, with AI Clock Twist - Strong, Transaction Booster - Disabled (1) on Bios 1004. I would say thats awesome

I think you could tighten your timings. I´m running my 8GB at 1100MHz CL 5-5-3-13-52-4-3 and tRRD = 1. With only 1.95v
Btw join in and post your results http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=179555

[jonny_ftm]

Out of curiosity, what does that khan /sp "Rampage Formula" dos command do after the bios has been flashed and reflashed?

[Spyrus]

Apart from tRFC values what else has changed?

[Spyrus]

You need higher chipset voltage to lower the performance level.

So do i need 1.7V? Because lower do not help it cannot boot.

[Nunzi]

Bios 1004

Corsair Dominator 8500C5D 8GB total 5-5-5-15-5-55-5-5.....

Fine tuning settings more, but 1004 allows 5:6 flawlessly from what I can tell.

EDIT:

The new 8500 4GB kits from Corsair rock , they do 2.0v 1081 5-5-5-15-4-50-4-4 on X38, with AI Clock Twist - Strong, Transaction Booster - Disabled (1) on Bios 1004. I would say thats awesome

Thanks have the same setup as you flashed to new bios works great

[Leeghoofd]

Great find though as there's no way back tooooooo risky for me... moving on to X48 with DDR3 ...

[DirtyShady]

I search perso who add SLIC Table on this Bios 1004, anyone could help me please ?

[The Stilt]

Out of curiosity, what does that khan /sp "Rampage Formula" dos command do after the bios has been flashed and reflashed?

Writes DMI information which Asus does not allow to update normally

[Spyrus]

I think that with same procedure you can flash back dmi/bios/etc to maximus formula again. Have you tried that?

[Spyrus]

What is that SLIC?

[kup]

What is that SLIC?

SLIC is part of the OEM activation of Vista. Inserting the SLIC information tricks Vista into believing the board/system is an OEM and lets you activate it without buying it.

[BenchZowner]

So do i need 1.7V? Because lower do not help it cannot boot.

Moving from 1.7Vnb to 1.825Vnb on the Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 ( "X48" chipset ) allowed me to run SuperPi 32M at PL6 when with 1.7Vnb best I could do was 8.

The same thing ( more NB voltage helps with PL ) applies to X38/P35/P45.

As long as you can keep the chipset cool, 1.8V-1.85V will be fine.

[ante_ante]

Anyone have tried the rampage mod ?

[DirtyShady]

SLIC is part of the OEM activation of Vista. Inserting the SLIC information tricks Vista into believing the board/system is an OEM and lets you activate it without buying it.

Yes, could you make it for me ?

[427cobra]

been lurking here for a while, picked up some great advice. just changed from q6600 to qx9650, and having real trouble clocking it.

was on bios 901 and could clock the q6600 to 4.2 no trouble at all ran all day at 3.9. now the qx9650, i can only get it to just over 4.0 any more and i get an overclocking fail wont even boot to windows.

tried bios 903 same thing, and all diff multiplers and setting i could think of, do i have the only low clocking chip around

any idea which is the best bios for this chip or any tips to get the best out of it?

thank you.

[kup]

I've been thinking, surely this same method can be used to turn a P5E into a Rampage too? Or at worst, a Maximus?