ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Grnfinger]

does 64 bit work for you? did you have to chagne any settings.

nope, just pop the disk in and sit back let her install.

[chiman2]

hmmm. k thanks. i guess i will find a new disc. also im planning on "burning" in my cpu. and i need a program that would let me change cpu voltage in the os. i know i could use the bios but it would be more time consuming. the asus suite doesnt seem to let you do that.

[ChaosAD]

I am thinking of getting this board along with 2x2Gb Dominators PC8500 and a 45nm quad. Anyone have any experience/issues with this setup? I have seem that many of you run very high PL in memory settings. Is this a board standard? In MF1 common PL was 6 or 7. Does the EK NB-Smax fit on the NB?

Grnfinger show me some good results of O/C cause i still cant make my mind over MF2 or RE

[Legacy]

hey everyone i just got the maximus 2 formula and love it. im having one problem though. im trying to install a 64 bit os and it doesnt work. all my 32 bit os's work. is there something i have to change in the bios? thanks

I had the same problem, I just popped the cd out a few times and it finally worked

[psychopath]

I
I have:

FSB: 400
FSB Termination vontage: 1.25v
PLL: 1.51
NB: 1.20
SV: 1.10

and my NB have 90º... what is the problem?

[andressergio]

Hey guys

How's this board with the Q6600's I'm on the settings of my signature on a P5K deluxe...

Do you think it's a good board to go for ?
I was lookin' at the rampage and the P5Q deluxe but this one seems very good

Cheers
Sergio

[Scinner]

Wel i could not get much higher then 3.6Ghz stable.But on this bord it did need less voltage like less vtt less nb and less vcore.On my mf1 it was 1.42 vtt , 1.51 Nb , and 1.41vcore.With mf2 it was vtt 1.34 Nb 1.41 and vcore 1.38.Now i use E8600 8.5x 500 with very low voltage.So for me this bord was a good buy.

[dctokyo]

lol sorry. well i make it boot from the cd drive and whenever i put in a 64 bit os it says "reboot and select boot device or put in boot media and press a key"

What type of DVD drive are you using?
some people have problems with the IED drives, are you using a SATA DVD drive? If so then I would agree with the other guys, your CD is bad.

[Nasgul]

so........................

For those running a FULL system with this board...........

Is it worth adding the X-Fi sound card included in the bundle or would I be better off with a stand alone (retail version) X-Fi card?

I keep hearing about the card included in the bundle not being as good or still using CPU cycles and not having its own cpu to do the job for it.

[chiman2]

What type of DVD drive are you using?
some people have problems with the IED drives, are you using a SATA DVD drive? If so then I would agree with the other guys, your CD is bad.

sadly im using an ide drive so what should i do now.

on another note i decided to do some overclocking and im at 415 fsb. e8500 3.9ghz. around 64 or a little less on load and 46 47 idle. are these temps ok?

[crazyea]

so........................

For those running a FULL system with this board...........

Is it worth adding the X-Fi sound card included in the bundle or would I be better off with a stand alone (retail version) X-Fi card?

I keep hearing about the card included in the bundle not being as good or still using CPU cycles and not having its own cpu to do the job for it.

I found it to be junk, so I went a picked up a Xonar D2X.

[GaBBa-Gandalf]

hi guys, i tested the high fsb again and with 4 x 1 gb ram....
its pretty good @ 505 MHz .... but i dont come higher, i think there is a cpu-fsbwall... (dont look for the cpu voltage... usually the cpu need just 1,25V for this mhz...

[dctokyo]

sadly im using an ide drive so what should i do now.

on another note i decided to do some overclocking and im at 415 fsb. e8500 3.9ghz. around 64 or a little less on load and 46 47 idle. are these temps ok?

Have you enable the J-Micron controller? You will need this set to enable to run PATA drives.

Well it depends on your room temps, I have mine running at 3.8 at it runs around 42 to 44 as reported by HW-monitor but PC probe 2 reports it around 30 to 32. But I have a very air-flow case in the CM Cosmos-S

[dctokyo]

so........................

For those running a FULL system with this board...........

Is it worth adding the X-Fi sound card included in the bundle or would I be better off with a stand alone (retail version) X-Fi card?

I keep hearing about the card included in the bundle not being as good or still using CPU cycles and not having its own cpu to do the job for it.

The card that comes wiht the board is not a true x-fi, it depends on software support.
Not sure about the card included in the bundle as I have not used it as I am running a PCI-e Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty .......... and that card sounds great.

[Leeghoofd]

I
I have:

FSB: 400
FSB Termination vontage: 1.25v
PLL: 1.51
NB: 1.20
SV: 1.10

and my NB have 90º... what is the problem?

get the heatsink off , reapply paste (arctic ceramique) and put a washer to put more pressure on the springs so the NB is really tied down... it has bad contact mate at the moment and is not good to continue to use the board under these conditions... you will smoke it

[WaterFlex]

Hello guys. I tested my M2F and i want to say: M2F <<< MF. I can`t make PL=8 as i could reach with MF with full stable!

[Solarfall]

I
I have:

FSB: 400
FSB Termination vontage: 1.25v
PLL: 1.51
NB: 1.20
SV: 1.10

and my NB have 90º... what is the problem?

your NB block has a bad contact with the nb chip.. i had the same problem. you can fix this by taking off the whole nb heatsink, then clean off the thermal paste and put new layer of it to the heatsink.. then when you put your heatsink back to your board, put 2 washers where the 2 heatsink holes are located, fasten all the screws and your ready to rock

[Leeghoofd]

Hello guys. I tested my M2F and i want to say: M2F <<< MF. I can`t make PL=8 as i could reach with MF with full stable!

There's more to life then PL8... P45 is known to have a slightly higher PL value but it's performance is comparable, do you notice the difference in day to day apps ? in Superpi yep... try static read control enable pull in etc...

[ChaosAD]

WaterFlex do u have any everest mem benchmarks to compare? Is PL8 really give lower performance in M2F? Maybe P45 chipset is supposed to work this way, i dodnt know though.

[ChaosAD]

The card that comes wiht the board is not a true x-fi, it depends on software support.
Not sure about the card included in the bundle as I have not used it as I am running a PCI-e Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty .......... and that card sounds great.

Dctokyo how do u like your titanium fatality? Did u have any driver issues since i see in your sig you run 64bit windows. I cant make my mind between X-Fi titanium fatality or Asus Xonar D2X.

[WaterFlex]

This is Maximus Formula with PL=8:


And this is Maximus II Formula with PL=9:


and it is very very stable

[WaterFlex]

Btw, are my volts and temps OK ?

[dctokyo]

Dctokyo how do u like your titanium fatality? Did u have any driver issues since i see in your sig you run 64bit windows. I cant make my mind between X-Fi titanium fatality or Asus Xonar D2X.

Hi ChaosAD, I really like my titanium fatality and I have no drivers problems running xp/64 with the lastest drivers.

I mostly play BF2 and the sounds really jump out in that game with the titanium fatality.

I got the titanium fatality because it came with the front IO console.

On this board I use the first PCI-e 1 slot which is the black one so it sits above my video card.

[ChaosAD]

WaterFlex thanx for the screenshots. It seems to have a liittle drop, but there may be a bios setting to overcome this difference.
Dctokyo thanx for the reply. It seems that i ll also go for the X-Fi titanium fatality.

Do u guyz think that if i choose this mobo the best combination would me a E8600 or a Q9550?

[Grnfinger]

WaterFlex thanx for the screenshots. It seems to have a liittle drop, but there may be a bios setting to overcome this difference.
Dctokyo thanx for the reply. It seems that i ll also go for the X-Fi titanium fatality.

Do u guyz think that if i choose this mobo the best combination would me a E8600 or a Q9550?

I have both chips and I'm trying to make that decsion right now.
I like the power of a quad but the higher c2d clocks will be nice.
I should have some benches and screenies today.
The bios has alot more options than MFI/Rampage so its a learning day today.
Took maybe 1/2 hour to get my 9550 stable at 450x8.5 where on the MF board I could not get it above 425! Still have to lower a few volts but for the most part I'm happy with 3825MHz