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

[Nuckin_Futs]

I dont have a 45nm quad but from what I hear none or very few like high fsb.
This is why I bought another 65nm quad, I would rather have a little more heat for alot more oc. I honestly dont see the RF bios giving you any more headroom, it will give you better bandwidth tho. There has been talk of a FSB hole and if you can find it you should be able to get 3.8-4.0 but again its not every chip.

This might be of interest to you, its a rampage bios setting but it will work with little effort on a MAximus ( the bios are almost identical) http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=196

At 3.6GHz what are your temps like on the 45nm?

37~39c depending on vcore of up to 1.48v I will try again to see if I can get past that hole. I may have been using more vcore then needed. Everest and other OS based monitors read the temps different, much higher all across on cores. It is sticking around 55c since stock and on as high as 1.48 when idle but maxed to 75c on the highest and 69c on lowest in Prime95. No throttling even at said 75c and TR120 feels cool narely warm at base and tips. Believe me, the Q6600 @ 1.48v felt nice and hot even to the tips of heat pipes w/ pleny of warm air out the back. So this thing isnt running out of CPU cooler just yet. What other core temp monitoring can read the 45nm quads correctly or is it the BIOS v1004? Is it worth testing RF 401 or mentioned 403? If S3 will work, I'm all there. Just to note, S3 still doesnt work even by changeing to 45nm so it is my BIOS.

But how high is still safe for 45nm quads?

[aussie-revhead]

Have you tried realtemp ? For me it seems to read lower than coretemp , so I hope its more correct.

[XtremeTiramisu]

Have you tried realtemp ? For me it seems to read lower than coretemp , so I hope its more correct.

Lower than Core Temp becouse Real Temp reads the Tj max temp 5 degrees below Core Temp. Take Q6600 G0 fore example, Core Temp reads its Tjmax = 100 and Real Temp reads its Tjmax at 95. Tjmax minus delta temp = core temp reads from the diodode. In this case, there is always an exact temp difference by 5 degree from each core.

[aussie-revhead]

Thats fair , so which is accurate ?

[Grnfinger]

37~39c depending on vcore of up to 1.48v I will try again to see if I can get past that hole. I may have been using more vcore then needed. Everest and other OS based monitors read the temps different, much higher all across on cores. It is sticking around 55c since stock and on as high as 1.48 when idle but maxed to 75c on the highest and 69c on lowest in Prime95. No throttling even at said 75c and TR120 feels cool narely warm at base and tips. Believe me, the Q6600 @ 1.48v felt nice and hot even to the tips of heat pipes w/ pleny of warm air out the back. So this thing isnt running out of CPU cooler just yet. What other core temp monitoring can read the 45nm quads correctly or is it the BIOS v1004? Is it worth testing RF 401 or mentioned 403? If S3 will work, I'm all there. Just to note, S3 still doesnt work even by changeing to 45nm so it is my BIOS.

But how high is still safe for 45nm quads?

I was one of the first to flash to the RF bios, I have ran FSB@489 24/7 for months and I have never experienced ANY negative effects from the conversion. My USB controller issue was user error I changed NB/SB volts for a test and when I resumed my regular quad overclock I forgot to up my NB/SB volts RF bios 403 is rather stable and seems to have the det dram issues solved.
I have never had an issue with S3, I set it to S3 Only in bios and has always worked for me for maximus or rampage bios. Flashing will take less than a min, it will take you longer to make the usb boot disk. Maybe try it out for a few hours and if you dont like it flash back. I just flashed back to MF yesterday and there was no need to re do my OS, everything played nicely.
And now that my self inflicted USB problem is gone I'm going to flash back to Rampage today

For 45nm c2d the claim is keep cpu volts below 1.45 and I think FSBT max was 1.40. I think cooling plays a large part so if your running cool enough then you should be safe. I was going to buy a Q9450 but the rumors around were very disturbing, so thats why I bought another ( better, lower vid ) 65nm quad. I like the wolfdales speed, the bandwidth is very impressive, but you cant match the power of a quad