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

[giorgos th.]

the one most prefered....

[ZenEffect]

ive never heard of a bad ek product...

[jfbbms]

the one most prefered....

The ek has the ( for me ) one of the most perfect products.
Also the cooper side, it can act as an mirror for you .

In europe , EK is getting bigger in distribution of products, as
in cpu/graphic card/chipset wb, reservoir.

[ZenEffect]

what i dont understand about the back plates of full cover waterblocks... WHY ARE THEY SHINY?!?!?

i dare anybody to argue with me, but just painting it black will reduce temps as black radiates heat better than any other color. more heat radiated, less heat on the component. why do you think radiators are black?

i can show you thermal images proving this point.

if it didnt void my warranty, i would have painted all the heat pipes and "fin pin" hoopla to black.
(yes i know modding to rampage voided my warranty, but how would anybody know if i just flash it back?)

[zlojack]

My wife just got home with my new v/c HD 3870 X2 1GB

Now I need a waterblock for it, any opinions on this???

http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/produc...d2b390b801e3fc

I have two sitting here about to be installed (maybe even tonight).

The blocks are beautiful and you can see the quality.

Hope to have some benchies by the weekend if all goes well with the build.

[ElEctric_EyE]

Man, am I in the WaterCooling thread? This is starting to suck.... Not because WC'ing sux, but because this is not what the original thread was about. This is now about smoke and mirrors? PMs

[Xilikon]

Yeah, hop in the LC forum if you want to find answers about watercooling questions

[Grnfinger]

Easy peeps I just ask'd a question

Didnt know it would create problems, thanks for the info tho guys

[askimo]

I just flashed my PE5 to the Rampage 0219 and it works!!!

Thank everybody at this thread

[ericab]

I just flashed my PE5 to the Rampage 0219 and it works!!!

Thank everybody at this thread

enjoy

[ericab]

Nope just had the OCZ ram cooler over them. When I first put the board system together though I had no cooler blowing on the RAM and I noticed they sure got hot, so I invested into the OCZ cooler with the dual fans. WOW what a difference, it kept them quite cool.

I will take some clear pictures of my system when I get home to show you an idea of how my setup is.
and post a link to them in my sig

damn now i m worried if my warranty is voided, becasue i put the thermaltake memory heatpipes on mine...

[iadstudio]

I wonder if it is because if a lot of the less experienced over clockers are setting 2.2v in the bios here and its actually running at around 2.28v

idk, it might be more than that. I fried 2 sets of the new revision on my board and the old Ballistix I had were just fine. My voltage never went over 2.1v

I think there is something with the new Ballistix revisions that lets this board kill them at even modest voltage.

[ericab]

hey Grn?

today i ordered the Corsair Dominator 8500's

hell yeah. (thx for advice)

[Yay for Cheese]

I can't seem to get anything stable past 425 FSB. It's stable in OCCT for at least 2.5 hours, but if I raise the FSB to 435, it becomes unstable and more volts don't help. Here are my current BIOS settings for my e8400:

BIOS 1004
Extreme Tweaker
Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 9
FSB Frequency : 425
FSB Strap to North Bridge : 333
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-1021
DRAM Command Rate : 2T
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency : 5
RAS# to CAS# Delay : 5
RAS# Precharge : 5
RAS# ActivateTime : 15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : Auto
Row Refresh Cycle Time : Auto
Write Recovery Time : Auto
Read to Precharge Time : Auto

Read to Write Delay (S/D) : Auto
Write to Read Delay (S) : Auto
Write to Read Delay (D) : Auto
Read to Read Delay (S) : Auto
Read to Read Delay (D) : Auto
Write to Write Delay (S) : Auto
Write to Write Delay (D) : Auto
DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
Ai Clock Twister : Strong
Transaction Booster : Disabled
Relax level: 0

CPU Voltage : 1.3375
CPU PLL Voltage : AUTO
North Bridge Voltage : 1.49
DRAM Voltage : 2.10
FSB Termination Voltage : 1.40
South Bridge Voltage : 1.050
Loadline Calibration : Enabled
CPU GTL Reference : 0.63X
North Bridge GTL Reference : 0.67X
DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage : DDR2-REF
DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage : DDR2-REF
DDR2 Controller REF Voltage : DDR2-REF
SB 1.5V Voltage : Auto

[ZenEffect]

Easy peeps I just ask'd a question

Didnt know it would create problems, thanks for the info tho guys

i read your post in the corsair help forum. i had a good laugh

[ZenEffect]

I can't seem to get anything stable past 425 FSB. It's stable in OCCT for at least 2.5 hours, but if I raise the FSB to 435, it becomes unstable and more volts don't help. Here are my current BIOS settings for my e8400:

cpu ppl on auto might have something to do with that

[Toysoldier]

Anyone with a Q6600, I am noticing on BIOS startup screen that it's only seeing 2 cores. Didn't it used to say 4?
Vista 64 sees them and so does cpu-z. Maybe it's nothing to worry about?

Mine still shows 4 cores

[mk-ultra]

I just flashed my PE5 to the Rampage 0219 and it works!!!

Thank everybody at this thread

x2

[Marvin54]

/n = dont check rom id

/p = program
b = Program Boot Block
n = Program NVRAM
c = Destroy System CMOS

Thanks. I worked without problem

[Yay for Cheese]

What should I set the cpu ppl voltage as?

[ZenEffect]

What should I set the cpu ppl voltage as?

what does it read as in pcprobe?

[Yay for Cheese]

I'm guessing cpu pll = SB2 in pcprobe2.

If so, it's 1.52

[TheOriginalTB]

Ok time for some of my findings with this mod (BIOS 0219).

Logitech mouse in the outmost USB port nearest the LAN - the BIOS hangs at USBINIT - moving the mouse to another USB port and it boots perfectly.

FSB 452 gives 448MHz, 551 gives 551, and 553 553MHz

Multiplier reverts back to std. when loading an OC profile, making the board unable to boot. Must select the correct lower multiplier after loading the OC Profile. This is only an issue when running lower multiplier than default.

NB temps are reported lower, doubt it's because the NB actually runs cooler..

CPU temps seems to be reported more realistic than on the 0907 MF BIOS - which gave me silly low temps. (like 9 deg at boot)

The board still overvolts like crazy on FSBTT, NB, RAM, and others.

Performance:

This BIOS IS slightly faster than the latest MF bios. With the same settings both read, copy and write were higher, but not by much - the latency however is about 1ns better.

Overclocking:
I have not been able to overclock more than with the MF BIOS, but this is probably due to my cpu more than the board.

With the MF bios I was able to run 500MHz FSB, with the RF bios I'm not even able to boot at 480MHz - major drawback..

Now I'm able to use all memory dividers - with the MF there were some dividers that wouldn't boot at all.

Software:
Windows do not need a reinstall - however Everest no longer detects NB voltage, SB voltage and vcore is reported wrong. (1.1 when actual 1.50)

But all in all - I think this will be a very good board with more matured RF BIOS's.

[bobbobson]

W00t! P5E just flashed successfully. Good work guys. I'll report my overclocking finds later.

[RCG_Bex]

Hey guys I've been away sorting GFX and lost track of this thread. What's considered the best BIOS for OC'ing now and can someone give me a hand OC'ing my E6750? Tried Renegade's original options fromt he start page my but my PC no likey.

I have had it up at 3.8Ghz but I'd like to try for 4Ghz if possible, if not then more stable settings for 3.8GHz (was just playing around with settings before - now my LC is here I hope I can get it set up nice n proper!)

~Bex