ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[WFO]

Glad to see a few of us Pureblood Maximus boy's left.

I just wanted to make sure I had a few buddies still out there that would want to talk some 907 and 1004 trivia...

As a Maximus I can get 3.8GHz or even more, that is if I want to hit my chip with about 1.5V's and up. It's tempature would be fine, it's the chip melting inside that worries me.

There looks to be two camps to me on OC'ing a Q6600.

Camp 1 is only going to go a tad above recomended voltage settings, and just see what their chip will give them. That keeps them at 1.4v's or lower max. I believe intel suggests not going over 1.35v?

Camp 2 thinks with proper cooling, voltage isn't a problem, and will go close to 1.6v's.

I am not sure who is correct?

I wan't to believe camp 2 real bad, juce my chip to 1.5v's +, and run like the wind. On the other hand, my default 1.224v Q6600 is probably a pritty darn good chip. I really wouldn't want to do any permanent damage to it...

I don't mind however, making it squeal a bit though.

I also wonder about the Maximus burning up its power chips too, if I were to run my Q6600 at close to 1.6v's.

I am currently trying to decide what my normal voltage should be. I would rather just have one 24/7 setting, but am starting to consider using the 2 slots for saved BIOS settings more. I could make one for just surfing, and the other as fast as I dare go on my voltage. Under bios 907 I did take this chip up to 3.9GHz for a short 45 minute Prime95 run. It did run error free too.

Hey Talonman, although I now use a Maximus Rampage, a Rampage Formula and 2 9450s in lew of my Maximus Formula/ Q6600 combo, I did use the former at 1.5 actual for 4 months 24/7 and have a Q6600 G0 on air running 24/7 @ 1.5 vcore. The latter has been going about 6 months. About a year ago there was a thread asking who was running what at 1.5 and above 24/7. There were at least 3 pages of replies. It might be worth a new thread. Given your low temps I'd go 1.5 24/7 without hesitation if you were folding or doing something equally constructive. Running the high clock and voltage doesn't seem worth while if you have nothing utilizing 100% of the cpu while doing so. In that case I'd have 2 profiles saved. One for gaming/ benching. One for surfing and e-mail. My 2 cents.

Edit: And yes my sig needs updating. Just haven't gotten around to it.

[Talonman]

Thanks for your input WFO!

[Talonman]

Hey Talonman, although I now use a Maximus Rampage, a Rampage Formula and 2 9450s in lew of my Maximus Formula/ Q6600 combo, I did use the former at 1.5 actual for 4 months 24/7 and have a Q6600 G0 on air running 24/7 @ 1.5 vcore. The latter has been going about 6 months. About a year ago there was a thread asking who was running what at 1.5 and above 24/7. There were at least 3 pages of replies. It might be worth a new thread. Given your low temps I'd go 1.5 24/7 without hesitation if you were folding or doing something equally constructive. Running the high clock and voltage doesn't seem worth while if you have nothing utilizing 100% of the cpu while doing so. In that case I'd have 2 profiles saved. One for gaming/ benching. One for surfing and e-mail. My 2 cents.

Edit: And yes my sig needs updating. Just haven't gotten around to it.

I started working on a 3.6GHz setting, that I intend to use for just web surfing. I will save the 3.8GHz + for games only.

My lapped Q6600 GO (L726B397) with a default vcore of 1.224v's, only requires 1.392v's to make 3.6GHz stable.

It did pass the OCCT mixed test for 1 hour error free, and have Primed it successfully for 4 hours. This shot is only a run of 1.5 hours, but just wanted to post a picture to keep things honest.

I only get about 42C max temp on my CPU @ 1.392 volts.