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

[sxs112]

Pete is right a whole different ballgame

Pinotnoir is New Generation 16-Phase Power Design

[diezel]

no way back

[Spyrus]

@diezel ?? what happened?

For my memory and as seen in ZenEffect picture Skew needs to be normal.
With enhanced gives some errors and with disabled no boot (tested only max and min values).
Also auto gives errors again.
Seems that twister can be set strong with ease with no additional nb voltage.
But since stronger is a new option i wonder if moderate/strong is the same and stronger is the old strong option...

[IN7OX]

hi, i m gonna flash my maximus to rampage soon...just wondering do u guys still follow stilt's steps or just simply type in AFUDOS /ifilename.rom /pbnc /n and ifilename.rom would be the bios file??? no more entering to ezflash to flash anymore right?

thats all i did m8 just used AFUDOS /ifilename.rom /pbnc /n
worked a treat

[Renegade5399]

Well fired up 0219 last night. At first, I thought it was trash. Fact is, I just have to re-learn how to tweak the BIOS. After dedicating some time to figure out all the extra settings, I got 2x1GB 1066 Ballistix running at 1200 with a trans booster Performance Level setting of 7 so far and Clock Twister set to Stronger, Static Read disabled. Overall I am seeing a small improvement in scores. The biggest thing for me though is the stability at 502*8. When it was a Maximus, it would randomly reboot when using the 8 multi and 500+ FSB. It would be OCCT and Prime stable for hours, but every now and again while folding, it would reboot. This has not happened since the conversion to Rampage. This BIOS seems pretty good, everything runs smooth.

[[timko]]

I'm having a big problem right now. My USB keyboard won't work in the startup anymore so I can't change the BIOS. I've tried using a PS/2 keyboard but that doesn't seem to work in the startup as well.

I've had this happen to me a few times before. I tried the clear cmos button on the back panel and also the switch just above the south bridge. Both did not work.

The only way I solved it was to release the CMOS battery, leave it about a minute, put it back in and restart. All settings revert to default of course but at least the keyboard works. I don't see why neither of the clear cmos switches work since they are supposed to do effectively what pulling the battery does.

[Spyrus]

Seems like strong is different than moderate.
So i made a mistake.
Tweaking further...

[giorgos th.]

Testing between PL5 - phases disabled and PL6 - phases enabled.
All of the tests were made with identical settings of hardware and without any win tweaking..
Just configured bios and booted.
The only thing i used was setfsb cause i booted at 399fsb to see if anything changed between the 2 PLs.

First Everest cache&mem bench.
PL5&disabled


PL6&enabled


WinRar next.
PL5&disabled


PL6&enabled


And some super pi 32m.
PL5&disabled


PL6&enabled

[miptzi]

man, I HATE this mobo!

Yeah, I'm a noob, but I was thinking better motherboards should make things easier, not the hell on earth!

Tried everything, can't get even some 3.0ghz. No BOOT, on ANY settings suggested here, nor even the ANANDtech suggestion.

Nothing work! I'm really pissed! Now all I want is some good, big axe, to chop it to bits.

my set should make it easy.
q6600 G0,
2x1gb XMS2 800mhz,
TRUE 2x120mm

If someone solve it for me, thanks!
just wanting some 3.4 - 3.5ghz

I think I should go back to Abit

[Leeghoofd]

Either you got a dud mobo or some other hardware is hindering ya OC, really 3ghz is a no brainer...

Secondly you give us very little input here, I too can tell ya my cat is sick and... what can you do about it ?....

We need a full list of ya hardware, bios version used, fill in the template of the bios, temps you are getting...

[zlojack]

I think this is probably your best solution

But in all seriousness, list your full hardware and give us more to work with and I'm sure there are people here who can help if your board isn't a dud.

[ante_ante]

Just flashed to bios 0219. Used the exact settings that i used in bios 0207 and now it wont boot. And one more thing is that i can only boot if i leave the vcore on auto when overclocking. Have i missed something ??

[Darkstormz]

Just flashed to bios 0219. Used the exact settings that i used in bios 0207 and now it wont boot. And one more thing is that i can only boot if i leave the vcore on auto when overclocking. Have i missed something ??

Works like a charm here.
Did you re-do your settings from scratch again ?

[giorgos th.]

Just flashed to bios 0219. Used the exact settings that i used in bios 0207 and now it wont boot. And one more thing is that i can only boot if i leave the vcore on auto when overclocking. Have i missed something ??

do a manual clear cmos (green button) and try again..
if you can,dont load a profile or sth..put the settings one by one again.

[MaXXimus]

Anyone here help me with Extreme Tweaker settings to mildly OC my QX9650 on the Formula with Corsair 2x2GB PC8500? Hoping to get somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.6GHz - 3.8GHz while on air.

[Zucker2k]

Just flashed back to MF bios 1004. When I first tried this bios some days back, all overclocks reverted to stock on post. This time around, it works!

Anyway, this is 8x495, 8x498, 8x500 (E8400), with 1.51 VNB, PL7

8x505 1.55 VNB PL7

Edit: Full ram settings: 5-5-5-15-3-35-6-3-8-3-5-4-6-4-6

Could someone run this identical settings in RF and let's see what the difference could possibly be? Thanks.

[ante_ante]

Works like a charm here.
Did you re-do your settings from scratch again ?

Put in excact same settings that i used before. Coming to when windows starts, then just reboot.

Manual clear cmos " green button " do no what ya mean Tell me how to do .....

[giorgos th.]

in the back side (IO shield) the mobo has a green clear cmos button..
turn off your pc and push it a few times.then try again putting the settings manually.

[SWFLTrader]

Oh and get the NB cool, cooler the better, more FSB, less Vmch, less PPL, higher clocks and tigther timings all round.

Pete

I agree

This thread is getting interesting, figure by the time the Rampage comes out you guys will have alot of the settings figured out.

[ZenEffect]

I agree

This thread is getting interesting, figure by the time the Rampage comes out you guys will have alot of the settings figured out.

pretty much got them all figured out already

[Renegade5399]

I'm really starting to like this being a Rampage. I am getting better performance and for some odd reason I can clock the shader on my GPU higher?!?! I'm not understanding that one at all.

[ZenEffect]

I'm really starting to like this being a Rampage. I am getting better performance and for some odd reason I can clock the shader on my GPU higher?!?! I'm not understanding that one at all.

a possible fix on nb gtl settings might allow your video to oc higher *i believe* so with these bios' perhaps asus did something right in this aspect

a couple of things i dont understand looking @ all these pics is why is my cpu l2cache latency lower than everyone elses, even with the same cpu and why does my copy and write suck so bad?

[Titus]

anyone else experiencing random lock ups during boot?...I'm using BIOS 0907 and every few times it just hangs on the boot screen right after it detects the memory as being OK...I can use the keyboard to hit the delete key and it shows "Entering BIOS" on the boot screen but it never goes past this screen...I have to hit the Reset key a few times for it to boot up properly...is this a problem with this BIOS?

BUMP

[[timko]]

why does my copy and write suck so bad?

Renegade is running 506Mhz FSB whereas according to your screenshot here...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=425

...you're only doing 437Mhz. Write and copy scores are heavily dependent on FSB speed so bump it up if you want to get closer

[ante_ante]

Green Button, will try that out. Seems like 0219 having problems with 0.5 multis for me. 450x9 no problem, but 450x9,5 not wanna enter windows :/