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

[Grnfinger]

I agree it is too much voltage for 24/7, but this is just for benching and it's on water. Like I said it did work with the DFi board with my RAM at 1200mhz. I've tested my RAM stable on 2.2v's up to 1300mhz so far. This leads me to believe that I don't have everything setup correctly bios-wise on the Rampage.

Well seeing as your majority of settings are auto I would agree that everything is not setup accordingly.
But regardless this is a different board so same clock are not a guarantee.
308 is definately the best bios so far it gives max tref value and is the fastest bios for bandwidth.

I will look at your settings and make some suggestions for you to try.
Will post them shortly

Off topic but how to do like your ICEQ card?
what kinda 3Dmarks scores do you get?
I have a 3870X2 on RMA with Asus and there dragging there ass on replacing the card....I can grab a ICEQ card super cheap was wondering if its worth it

[Amurtigress]

Hi people,

My rampaged maximus board is currently stuck at FSB 436 with a Q9300 processor. Since I am planning to get me a DDR3 supporting board I would like to ask here which chipset would be the best for a Q9 series CPU?

Is the X48 really a lot better than the X38 running a 45 nm quadcore? What about the P45 and nvidia 790i ?

Looking forward to hear some comments!

[Grnfinger]

Hi people,

My rampaged maximus board is currently stuck at FSB 436 with a Q9300 processor. Since I am planning to get me a DDR3 supporting board I would like to ask here which chipset would be the best for a Q9 series CPU?

Is the X48 really a lot better than the X38 running a 45 nm quadcore? What about the P45 and nvidia 790i ?

Looking forward to hear some comments!

45nm quads and X48 are getting very good results
Cannot comment on P45 but the 790i is a decent board
Rampage DFI or EVGA would be solid choices, I personally would grab a Rampage.

[Amurtigress]

Grnfinger:

Sounds good to me, trouble is, the Rampage does not support DDR3 RAm, or did I overlook some model?

I found another board, the MSI X48C Platinum X48. It even comes with both DDR2 and 3 sockets. I have no clue tho about it's overclocking functions in the BIOS tho.

I'd love to stick to ASUS tho.

[Zucker2k]

Grnfinger:

Sounds good to me, trouble is, the Rampage does not support DDR3 RAm, or did I overlook some model?

I found another board, the MSI X48C Platinum X48. It even comes with both DDR2 and 3 sockets. I have no clue tho about it's overclocking functions in the BIOS tho.

I'd love to stick to ASUS tho.

Have you heard of the Rampage Extreme? It's the best board ever made, and it is a DDR3 board.

[erocker]

Well seeing as your majority of settings are auto I would agree that everything is not setup accordingly.
But regardless this is a different board so same clock are not a guarantee.
308 is definately the best bios so far it gives max tref value and is the fastest bios for bandwidth.

I will look at your settings and make some suggestions for you to try.
Will post them shortly

Off topic but how to do like your ICEQ card?
what kinda 3Dmarks scores do you get?
I have a 3870X2 on RMA with Asus and there dragging there ass on replacing the card....I can grab a ICEQ card super cheap was wondering if its worth it

Thanks! My IceQ which i've now sold (running a 4870 now) was a great card. Never messed with voltage or anything and I managed to get this as a score for 3dmark06: