ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Leeghoofd]

I can second that on the 0901. I tried 0901 initially and had stability issues w/ anything above stock but I've had nothing but happiness w/ 0701. The only problem that I am having with the 0701 version is that I can't lower my multiplier in order to run 8x450. Everytime I try it resets to 9x450.

How do you like the MFII over the P5Q dlx mate ? Is it worth the step up ?

By far not You can talk about stable by passing 100 runs (I am always going with 300 runs over night).

Worst tip you could ever give to users here... totally hardware kill and way over the top... but if you want to go and waste ya hardware and cycles on a stability test, be my guest...

not planning on keeping your hardware very long? There is no reason to run 300 loop test let alone 100 loops
run 10 loops if it passes then toss it on prime or OCCT for 6-8 hours and its done. And the plus side you wont kill your hardware

And then you get the suggestion of a wise man : 10 loops is more than enough, add some other tests and you are ready... users are really exagerating with all of this...

Not a Huge OC, but I think it's Stable!
Ran Linpack Test#2 on Vista 32bit for 100 Passes with no errors.

I would love to get this Chip to 3.8 or hopefully 4GHz but everything I have tried has been unsuccesful.

Stop doing that lol... why do I see 6gb of ram... do you run 2 x 2 Gb and 2 x 1gb sticks ? Have you tried dropping multi to eg 7 with 475FSB ?

[TouGe]

How do you like the MFII over the P5Q dlx mate ? Is it worth the step up ?

I'm not quite sure yet. The one downside of this board seems to be that there aren't too many users compared to the P5Q-D and the BIOS updates seems to reflect this fact.
I did not see any gains over the P5Q-D in regards to Everest bandwidth @ 9x400MHz (4:3 divider) 5-5-4-12-3-35 timmings and I was not able to achieve my normal 3.6GHz OC w/ any less voltages. I was finally able to get 8x450MHz to work but it meant me running PL 8 with AI Clock Twister set to Moderate whereas 8x450MHz was stable on my P5Q-D at PL 8 w/ AI Clock Twister set to Strong, not a big deal.
Don't get me wrong, MIIF is a nice board. I think it is just as stable as the P5Q-D. You are able to change GTL's per core if you are in to that and you are also able to see all the temp sensors as well as voltage read-outs which seem to report reasonable values--haven't tested yet.
I can't see any reason to recommned the MIIF over the P5Q-D, especially if you already own a P5Q-D. Maybe if Asus would pay just as much attention to BIOS updates for the MIIF as they do for the P5Q-D it would be a better board but.....
You do a lot more tweaking than I do so maybe you might be able gleem a difference between the two boards but for a casual tweaker I'd say they were identical in every way.

[TouGe]

As for stability I run 10 passes of Linpack for initial testing and 20-30 passes of Linpack and 3 hours of Prime95 blend for final testing then its back to crunching. If I don't get any errors reported over the next few days or none of my games freeze while playing then I am stable enough. I've got about 8 months of down time from crunching to catch up on. I've got no time to waste on excessive stability testing.

[Legacy]

Stop doing that lol... why do I see 6gb of ram... do you run 2 x 2 Gb and 2 x 1gb sticks ? Have you tried dropping multi to eg 7 with 475FSB ?

I only Have 4GB installed
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145197

I never even noticed that Memset read my Ram as 6144MB Must be a Bug.

CPU-Z , thinks I have 8GB installed

I tried to Run at 475x7 and got errors as well as 475x8