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

[Dostoyevsky77]

@ GrnFinger & ZenEffect:

Uh... actually, I ordered a new board, so I don't have to stress about the RMA period.

Here are some (surprising) differences between the new board and my last one (besides being shipped with 1006)...

1) My NB temperature is about 5(c) higher at the same voltage! I don't remember if there was a break-in period for the stock TIM (I didn't replace it last time either) because I was on a different chip and RAM. I hope it gets better! It WAS at 40/43, now we're at 45/49. Is that too high?

2) The silver VRM heatsinks near the I/O panel are recessed towards the CPU quite significantly. I had to bend the fins on the HS and bend the pipe slightly just to fit my Tuniq back on there (pictures to follow).

Here's the kicker. I have the SAME problem with the new board, but I've figured out how to circumvent it. I wonder if it's a PSU idiosyncrasy. As you might recall, any BIOS changes requiring a cold restart (where the system shuts down completely before restarting) would result in just a shutdown, with only clearing CMOS bringing it back on. It appears all I had to do was hold the normal case power button for five seconds and then press it again to restart with the BIOS changes. Grr... I might switch back to my old board if the NB temp doesn't come down.

@ Tony:

I tried changing the DRAM clock skew on both channels as you recommended, and it resulted in no bandwidth improvement. A quick 15-minute Everest stress test resulted in BSOD. I can't attribute it to the clock skew because I'm on a new board, but it appears my Ballistix don't like or need it. Thanks for the tipper, though! I'll look into that more in the coming days!

***EDITED for blatant spelling errors.

***EDIT #2: @ Beard: I had that VTT weirdness on 0907. It really freaked me out.