ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Legacy]

These temps seems pretty high.. Everything in the bios was left on Auto except for Ram and I set the FSB to 450x8

What do you guys think

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[crazyea]

Atuo is killer. It's sets things way too high. You're gonna have to set the volts manually.

Also, what is your ambient temp?

[Legacy]

68 F is my room temp. I wouldn't know where to start with lowereing volts.

Here is a screen shot with all my curent voltages

[Scinner]

Do i see 1.78 for cpupll?Put that at lower volts fast m8 i dont think its good for your cpu.I am newbie overclocker myself but i don think this will be good for cpu.I also see 10C diffrence in your core's?

[Legacy]

Do i see 1.78 for cpupll?Put that at lower volts fast m8 i dont think its good for your cpu.I am newbie overclocker myself but i don think this will be good for cpu.I also see 10C diffrence in your core's?

I lowered the pll to 1.62 and ran prime95 stable for 8 hrs I also lowered NB 1.27 and the FSB/Vtt 1.28..

I Prime tested this Cpu almost immidiately after installing the CPU, so maybe that's why my temps are so high?

even after letting the computer idle, core 1&3 are 40-43C core 2&4 are 33-35C. I put a very very thin layer of thermal paste on the cpu

[crazyea]

Run the realtemp core/sensor test. You may have a couple stuck.

[Legacy]

ran sensor test

Core0= 10 Core1= 9 Core2= 11 Core3= 13

I might need to lap the CPU, I already lapped the HS and there was no differnece in temps

[crazyea]

Case type?

[chiman2]

i might be buying a mf2 and i have a question will this northbridge heatsink/fan work on the mf2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103155

or could i just put a 40mm fan on top of the asus heatsink.

o yea i also notice that the motherboard comes with this like pci slot fan but i dont know where it goes.

[xzulu]

Finally got my board! Changed the thermalpaste of the NB and SB and also the removable heatsink on top of the NB after taking it out the box. Applied AS5, booted up withouts problems. Checked the Bios temps of the NB. 39C Idle. Now time to play with it

[xzulu]

i might be buying a mf2 and i have a question will this northbridge heatsink/fan work on the mf2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103155

or could i just put a 40mm fan on top of the asus heatsink.

o yea i also notice that the motherboard comes with this like pci slot fan but i dont know where it goes.

you could just mount a 40mm fan on the NB with double sided tape.

[chiman2]

so 40mm is the right size and i just put a fan on top of the normal heat sink right?

any ideas on that heatsink/fan thing by cooler master?

[xzulu]

so 40mm is the right size and i just put a fan on top of the normal heat sink right?

any ideas on that heatsink/fan thing by cooler master?

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Well, I tried putting a 40mm 5,000rpm fan on top of the stock heatsink. Temps went down about 2C. As for the Coolermaster chipset cooler I dont think it would make a difference. It's just like putting a fan on top of the normal one.

I want to try the Thermalright HR-05 chipset cooler. I bet temps will be lower.

[dctokyo]

I keep getting this picture over and over as the USB floppy drive is not read
did it like the manual in the bios set it to raid then the Ctrl+I and made a partition(also tried two partitions) made a floppy with the raid drivers and then when I try to install XP and try to press F6 it doesn't open the USB A: drive ......... it keeps asking me to put in a floppy disk


for some reason it will not load the RAID drivers from my USB floppy drive during the windows setup......... I had to use a internal one to do this.

The floppy drive and floppy works OK on another machine during the windows setup for some reason

Anyone has this problem?

[xzulu]

Funny, how come CPU-Z Detected my Ram as DDR3??? That's weird!!

[dctokyo]

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Funny, how come CPU-Z Detected my Ram as DDR3??? That's weird!![/QUOTE]

The same here, maybe CPU-Z is outdated?

[sunny7day]

I've both 604 and 901 bios in my board. The 604 is way better than 901 in terms of fsb overclocking. No problem at all using E8600 with 604 bios.

[xzulu]

I found a way to lower my SB and NB temps! I already replaced the paste on the SB and NB to AS5 and tightened the screws.

before: 40mm 5,000rpm fan on NB


now: 60mm ADDA 11.5cfm 3,500rpm fan on the NB and placed the Antec Spot Cool over the SB


Temps went down 4C for both the SB and NB

I figured out my G.Skill 2x2GB F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ @ 1066Mhz 1.9v runs cool on idle and on load cause of the low voltage, so it doesn't need the Antec Spot Cool. I used 3M Heavy Duty Double Sided Industrial tape to secure the 60mm fan on the NB fan

Has anyone tried using a Thermalright HR-05 or the Sli version? I was at my friends place a while ago, we tried the HR-05 Sli and it can be mounted, problem was we needed longer screws just like the one used on the stock chipset heatsink.

[Lloyd]

can anyone tell me what Asus have used under the nb? Normal paste or that bloody cement? IE will i need to heat up the nb before removal?
Thanks in advance for ur help
Regards
Lloyd

[dingdong555]

Hi guys,

I just got this mobo and I must say... it ROCKS.

Now I have a Q6600 and I am looking to OC it to 3.8ghz, what should i change to make it stable?

If I just change the CPU voltage to 1.43, it fails, any ideas would be appreciated.

This is my CURRENT OC

[xzulu]

can anyone tell me what Asus have used under the nb? Normal paste or that bloody cement? IE will i need to heat up the nb before removal?
Thanks in advance for ur help
Regards
Lloyd

Well, Asus used some gray looking thermal paste, looks better than the regular white stuff they use

[Solarfall]

had some fun with this board during the weekend:

first some superPi



ran some benchmarks with the old 3dmark01 God i love it LOL

[mr-rob]

The Vcore is... High ^^
Nice the 607 FSB

Is it possible to have some tests with wPrime 32M & 1024M? I would like to see what a 45nm Dual Core is capable.
Thx

[Legacy]

The Vcore is... High ^^
Nice the 607 FSB

Is it possible to have some tests with wPrime 32M & 1024M? I would like to see what a 45nm Dual Core is capable.
Thx

First run on a Q9450.. I know you asked for dual core, but I decided to post it anyways

[Solarfall]

The Vcore is... High ^^
Nice the 607 FSB

Is it possible to have some tests with wPrime 32M & 1024M? I would like to see what a 45nm Dual Core is capable.
Thx

mmm yeah maybe i could crunch some numbers tomorrow