ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Datektrader]

Cool. Is Probe wrong, or is your VTT and NB really 1.6v, and PLL 1.8? If so, are those on auto?

the nb is actually set to 1.6 but those others I believe are still on auto, I figured with all the crazy heatsinks on the board the NB could go higher than i had on the IP 35pro


anyone with suggestion feel free to through them out, compared to most on this forum I am probably the "newbiest" when it comes to playing with all these bios settings

[ACE76]

the nb is actually set to 1.6 but those others I believe are still on auto, I figured with all the crazy heatsinks on the board the NB could go higher than i had on the IP 35pro


anyone with suggestion feel free to through them out, compared to most on this forum I am probably the "newbiest" when it comes to playing with all these bios settings

I may be wrong but I thought this chipset was on a new 65nm die...meaning vnb as high as 1.6 may damage the board...from what I read in other threads, people don't really need to go over 1.45 to achieve really good clocks with P45.

[Vivi]

yea Ace i would also like to know the max allowed NB's here.

one thing i DO know is that at 1.6vTT 45nm cpus die. 1.7+ pll is also dangeorus.

when i clocked with my asus board, High Nb volts, VTT and FSB get auto'd to extremely high volts, its better to manually set them

stay in

1.5 range MAX for vfsb
and 1.6 max'ish for PLL

just to be safe

[ACE76]

yea Ace i would also like to know the max allowed NB's here.

one thing i DO know is that at 1.6vTT 45nm cpus die. 1.7+ pll is also dangeorus.

when i clocked with my asus board, High Nb volts, VTT and FSB get auto'd to extremely high volts, its better to manually set them

stay in

1.5 range MAX for vfsb
and 1.6 max'ish for PLL

just to be safe

I think 1.5 VTT is too high too...I never go higher than 1.4...even that is only for benching short runs...generally, I keep my vtt between 1.2-1.35 just to be safe...you can easily achieve 4+ghz on Wolfdales with 1.3 vtt and 1.5-1.6 pll...these weird voltage issues with the Maximus II should get cleared up with BIOS updates...the P5Q Deluxe had issues too but BIOS revisions fixed them....I'm running that board now and I should have the Maximus II on Monday for my new air-cooling system.

That being said, I don't think we will be seeing a better or more fun to play with P45 board...I'm hoping DFI comes out with a new BIOS soon, as their BIOSes require too much work right now (I'm gonna be spending a lot of time on the phase build with DFI DDR3 X48 board soon).

Mods should rename this thread to the official Maximus II thread