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

[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