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

[Grnfinger]

never had this issue.... EVER..
and i have verified this is 100% surrounding 1201 bios... looks like i am going back to 0401 or whatever it was i had previously.
i'll live with the "DET DRAM" issue as i can fix that just by swapping out the ram this usb crap is exactly that,, crap,, its really screwing up all my usb stuff.

USB isnt effected by voltages either, i just want to make that quite clear.
and i am not trying to knock you or anyone, but you'd know this if you'd been around long enough.
the only thing known to kick out USB devices would be if the pci bus freq is not locked at 33mhz when your overclocking totally wacked out ACPI and IRQ handling of the bios.

i have seen similar things before, long time ago with some wacko mobo's that didnt have a PCI freq. lock. but i havent seen it for a really long time.

i can take the ram back to 2 gigs and the same crap happens.....

oh well,, 1201 didnt give me anything new except the stupid DET DRAM wasnt happening all the time, it was still happening but powering off and powering back on made it boot into the bios safe mode so i could make the changes i needed.

was also getting BSOD and Reboots in XP and vista64...

oh well,, no skin off my back to rever back to an older bios...

wont do any good to tell ASUS either cuz they will just blame my hardware and not their flakey bios(s).

I am also just recently experiencing a USB problem, PC will boot fine ( or appears to be fine) But once Vista is loaded if I plug any USB thumb drive in my CPU usage goes to 60% and my mouse goes nuts, no control over it .
I have re installed Vista, didnt use the Asus mobo disk and installed the latest NB ans SB drivers from Intel, also installed the latest Matrix storage manager. So far it would seem the issue is gone. The Det dram hang is easy to resolve.
Here is a link to OCZ's trd calculator ( Tony did a nice job of explaining everything) it should help rid you of the det dram

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=36360

I said this several pages ago; the main reason why the x38 chipset was re-released as x48 was because of a USB bug. Motherboard makers were supposed to have a work-around fix for it. Looks like they haven't necessarily done so in all cases.

I must have missed that post, I seem to having a little usb issue of my own lately.
are you still running a rampage bios or did you conclude it was no benifit to the Maximus bios?
I am debating on returning to a Maximus bios now

[Talonman]

Do it buddy!!

We need more pure blood Maximus boy's around here!

[Zucker2k]

I am also just recently experiencing a USB problem, PC will boot fine ( or appears to be fine) But once Vista is loaded if I plug any USB thumb drive in my CPU usage goes to 60% and my mouse goes nuts, no control over it .
I have re installed Vista, didnt use the Asus mobo disk and installed the latest NB ans SB drivers from Intel, also installed the latest Matrix storage manager. So far it would seem the issue is gone. The Det dram hang is easy to resolve.
Here is a link to OCZ's trd calculator ( Tony did a nice job of explaining everything) it should help rid you of the det dram

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=36360



I must have missed that post, I seem to having a little usb issue of my own lately.
are you still running a rampage bios or did you conclude it was no benifit to the Maximus bios?
I am debating on returning to a Maximus bios now

I haven't bothered with the latest MF bioses yet (1101? and 1201); I like RF 0403 a lot and I have 3 quads here to play with so I'm going to stick with it. Playing with high fsb here; this is a sweet little chip (vid. 1.2500), sips vcore and should easily do 450x9. I'm liking my other chip tho, (vid. 1.2625) which does 7x500 rock solid stable, and 8x500 everest stability stable. I'm working hard to stabilize that and keep it chiefly because of the high fsb (reached 7x515). It's likes a tad more vcore. I want to see how high this chip will prime stable; so far looking good as I'm running apps and posting from this pc. Screenie:

[Grnfinger]

I haven't bothered with the latest MF bioses yet (1101? and 1201); I like RF 0403 a lot and I have 3 quads here to play with so I'm going to stick with it. Playing with high fsb here; this is a sweet little chip (vid. 1.2500), sips vcore and should easily do 450x9. I'm liking my other chip tho, (vid. 1.2625) which does 7x500 rock solid stable, and 8x500 everest stability stable. I'm working hard to stabilize that and keep it chiefly because of the high fsb (reached 7x515). It's likes a tad more vcore. I want to see how high this chip will prime stable; so far looking good as I'm running apps and posting from this pc. Screenie:

I have returned to a Q6600 aswell, I have a nice VID of 1.225, it will hit 4.0GHz easy and maybe higher I dont know yet.
I cant get my other 2 cores enabled when I run your 500x7 settings

I was thinking on going to a DFI X48 board but after lurking in the DFI thread I see there no better off than us Maximus users, so no point in trading one pos for another

[Zucker2k]

Do it buddy!!

We need more pure blood Maximus boy's around here!

What makes a Maximus, a Maximus? The boot logo? Anyway, I got a screenie for ya!

I have returned to a Q6600 aswell, I have a nice VID of 1.225, it will hit 4.0GHz easy and maybe higher I dont know yet.
I cant get my other 2 cores enabled when I run your 500x7 settings

I was thinking on going to a DFI X48 board but after lurking in the DFI thread I see there no better off than us Maximus users, so no point in trading one pos for another

I got a funny story for ya; run into a pair of DFIs the other day, they wanted some of my Maximus. Long story short, it wasn't pretty. Read down the thread.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...84#post2679184

[Zucker2k]

I have returned to a Q6600 aswell, I have a nice VID of 1.225, it will hit 4.0GHz easy and maybe higher I dont know yet.
I cant get my other 2 cores enabled when I run your 500x7 settings

Have you tried playing with fsbt/NB. Maybe a little more vcore too? It's difficult to get a quad to run at 500fsb. It must be capable of it, you can't force it to, save for extreme cooling of processor/chipsets in some cases. I have a quad here with a vid of 1.3125 which also does 500fsb. So it's more cpu related than anything else. Coincidentally, there all these 500fsb capable cpus have something in common: low last 4 digits wafer numbers. I understand the first 2 figures are the X axis, last 2, Y axis (all from center).

processor 1: L741A941. Vid.: 1.2500v 4 Digit Wafer #: 0475
processor 2: L741A941. Vid.: 1.2625v 4 Digit Wafer #: 0238
processor 3: L746B022. Vid.: 1.3125v 4 Digit Wafer #: 0870

Bear in my mind that these numbers are supposed to go all the way to 99 for each axis. So it seems the closer the numbers are to 00 (center) on the X axis, the higher the fsb they are capable of running at. My 2 cents.

[Grnfinger]

Have you tried playing with fsbt/NB. Maybe a little more vcore too? It's difficult to get a quad to run at 500fsb. It must be capable of it, you can't force it to, save for extreme cooling of processor/chipsets in some cases. I have a quad here with a vid of 1.3125 which also does 500fsb. So it's more cpu related than anything else. Coincidentally, there all these 500fsb capable cpus have something in common: low last 4 digits wafer numbers. I understand the first 2 figures are the X axis, last 2, Y axis (all from center).

processor 1: L741A941. Vid.: 1.2500v 4 Digit Wafer #: 0475
processor 2: L741A941. Vid.: 1.2625v 4 Digit Wafer #: 0238
processor 3: L746B022. Vid.: 1.3125v 4 Digit Wafer #: 0870

Bear in my mind that these numbers are supposed to go all the way to 99 for each axis. So it seems the closer the numbers are to 00 (center) on the X axis, the higher the fsb they are capable of running at. My 2 cents.

I didnt up any volts from your settings, I will play around today and see what I can do, While not xtreme my cooling is very good, so heat will not be an issue running 500FSB