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

[ericab]

Zen;

can i get your bios settings? looks like we have similar setups..

[andyr(uk)]

The piotnoir , i read that its going to be both 790 and x48 variants

[Leeghoofd]

Quick Q: BIOS 0907 or 1004 for Q6600 G0 and 2x 1GB 1066 Ballistix Tracers?

Both work fine Tiramisu... I ran the Q6600 on 0907 and also with the QX9650 no issues... updated to 1003 hell broke loose... reflashed back to 0907 all fine, now tested 1004 and it runs fine with Q6600 and my Gskills 4gig kit... no worries... I think Kup advises to use 0505 for Q6600...

[sup3rfly]

1. boot from usb
2. AFUDOS /RF0219.rom /pbnc /n
3. done

correct? just to confirm :P

[ZenEffect]

Zen;

can i get your bios settings? looks like we have similar setups..

sorry but i cant as im at work and dont remember the exact settings. i dont like to give bad info so i will post back later today *about 5 hours 45 min or so* with the settings.

[kup]

I think Kup advises to use 0505 for Q6600...

Indeed. I've had my best Quad experiences to date on the 0505 bios.

[ericab]

sorry but i cant as im at work and dont remember the exact settings. i dont like to give bad info so i will post back later today *about 5 hours 45 min or so* with the settings.

cool; no problem

@sup3rfly,

no,
you forgot the /i....

so it would look EXACTLY like this:

AFUDOS /iRF0219.rom /pbnc /n


**edit**

btw, 20 minutes in on PRIME small FFT's
and rock solid stable, with 2 notches lower CPU voltage!

[sup3rfly]

alrite got it thx

[giorgos th.]

@ giorgos th.

you need to mess with transaction booster and common performance level. i noticed a drop from switching to a rampage, but once i toyed with these settings and made sure its stable, i got better bandwidth than i could with the maximus.

PL5 with phases 1-2 disabled on both channels...and a bit loose subs...
10000mb/s seems pretty more than the result of the formula..

[Grnfinger]

would anyone care to share there memory settings?
that pull in/out isnt making sense to me, If I play with it I get the "det dram" hang, then it takes forever b4 the pc will boot again.
Frustrating as hell. Finally had the Maximus sorted now its back to start again with Rampage

[ZenEffect]

would anyone care to share there memory settings?
that pull in/out isnt making sense to me, If I play with it I get the "det dram" hang, then it takes forever b4 the pc will boot again.
Frustrating as hell. Finally had the Maximus sorted now its back to start again with Rampage

from what i noticed having the pull in/out enabled sets the actual performance level to 1 number lower, so a pl of 6 with pull in/out enabled makes a pl 5

[giorgos th.]

yes but without actually changing the internal mobo timings i guess....
correct me if i`m wrong..

[Zucker2k]

The increased GTL didn't seem to help me. In what way should it help? Just stabilise the clocks more or decrease required voltage?

Helps with max fsb; requirements defer from cpu to cpu.

[Spyrus]

Check this out about Rampage settings:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3208&p=3

[ZenEffect]

yes but without actually changing the internal mobo timings i guess....
correct me if i`m wrong..

thats right

[ericab]

would anyone care to share there memory settings?
that pull in/out isnt making sense to me, If I play with it I get the "det dram" hang, then it takes forever b4 the pc will boot again.
Frustrating as hell. Finally had the Maximus sorted now its back to start again with Rampage

im with Grnfinger here too...

im getting some mixed results. DET RAM errors all over the place with similar settings i had used on the maximus BIOS... on the other hand however, cpu voltage is now lower, and amazingly, my load temps dropped 2 Celsius on full load~!!

[giorgos th.]

its easy...imagine that you give pl5 with all phases disabled...you still have pl5

if you give pl5 with phases enabled you actually have pl4......

soooo,with fe 400fsb you`ll work with pl5-disabled...but not with pl5-enabled...too tight..

[ZenEffect]

im with Grnfinger here too...

im getting some mixed results. DET RAM errors all over the place with similar settings i had used on the maximus BIOS... on the other hand however, cpu voltage is now lower, and amazingly, my load temps dropped 2 Celsius on full load~!!

set to cas4 and try again

[Jupiler]

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[ZenEffect]

flame bait... lol sounds like an underage homosexual. (no offense to anybody, i just thought it was funny)

[Arcanedeath]

This looks promising I'm not sure If I have time to tweak everything again though. /sigh I wish Asus would release a decent bios for the Maximus Formula but when I get more time I suppose this hack is in order Thanks for all the work on this guys, this is a thread to follow.

[ericab]

I presume these rules are still clear (in case some of you have forgotten them).
Keep it clean, thx.

Note taken. Sorry Jupiler.

as for Pete; *Censored*

[Grnfinger]

Note taken. Sorry Jupiler.

as for Pete;

[Grnfinger]

Sorry double post here.

Just loaded 219 and my bandwidth is . Same setting and major crap here.

If I post my memory setting can someone with a tad more understanding of these new bios settings hold my hand and walk me through it?

[ericab]

Grnfinger;
hehe

also,
i just upped my B/W by a bunch....
send me ur mem settings and ill compare the 2 of ours.



^---- still worse then my maximus bios by far...
w/ maximus, i was lookin at about 9600 M/B/s