Maximus Formula dead, important info inside

[eva2000]

Would the Blitz series hook mount system be better than push pins ? I can't even remove them on Asus Blitz Extreme/Formula as they're so tight to even check if good contact is made LOL

[sup3rfly]

just wondering if i remove the heatsink and put a fan blowing to it would be a better option

[teko]

I'll have a look later today and take some pics, need to take the mobo out anyway to turn the CPU cooler

[Leeghoofd]

just wondering if i remove the heatsink and put a fan blowing to it would be a better option

Put some small heatsinks on the mosfets to dissipate heat more quickly, something like Swiftech copper heatsink kit :

http://www.swiftech.com/products/mc14.asp

[rentay]

wow! That is incredible that happened! But it seems not to be a problem with solely asus but also abit aswell. I replaced all the push pins with bolts and nuts and removed the black thermal pads and used arctic silver mx-2 thermal paste no complaints here!

[Tony]

Cronos

The board was a review sample, it has been reviewed by near every tier 1 site and magazine here in the UK before it came to me.

regards memtest this board had run 50hr+ already at much lower CPU clocks, as soon as i wanted to briefly test at 4GHZ 1.5V or so the damage was done....going by how long it lasted in memtest it looks to have blown on test 4 which actually does load the CPU quite high.

Yes its single threaded though...but the heat of an uncooled fet is quite large at 4GHZ and as soon as that 1 fet blew the others on that phase will have gone also trying to carry the load.

The general point here is not my board, its the poor QC on a very expensive board which you would expect to be well made, fact is you should not have to buy backplates or do after market tricks to get the board to survive...it should be like that from the factory.

[BenchZowner]

The general point here is not my board, its the poor QC on a very expensive board which you would expect to be well made, fact is you should not have to buy backplates or do after market tricks to get the board to survive...it should be like that from the factory.

Exactly.
We're paying premium prices for motherboards that should've been priced at least 50$ cheaper.
Spending 300$ on a motherboard and HAVING the need to mod it's heatsinks or even change them with after-market ones sucks.

I could live with the heatsinks stuff, but another thing that bugs me the most is...those annoying yet easy to find BIOS Bugs ( the EIST bug on P5K3 Deluxe BIOSes after 0910 for example ).

[Z3R0-CooL]

it does need backplates no matter what.

this is what i done.

[chew*]

I'll back you 100% on this one tony. When i recieved my board the southbridge heatsink contact was so bad it was visible to the naked eye at just a glance........

Luckily the first thing I do when i buy a board is void my warranty......As with all my mobos I rip off all the HS, lap, apply thermal paste reinstall, remove check contact and if I'm satisfied clean off and reapply paste.

After all that then I fire it up.