ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[seban]

Today I sent back my first Mobo - I paid 36e for shipping to UK.... from Ireland. This country is unbelievable and it take more then 5 days to show up like 500km away. I would faster walk with it.

When UK is sending it to me I pay around 12e for next day courier delivery. If I would like to send it via courier I would have to pay 66e and no guarantee it will get there by tomorrow.

I can only laugh about it, because other wise I would have to cry my eyes out

[radaja]

i hear you the first board i sent,i spent 39 $ for overnight shipping to speed up the proccess. the second 10 $ ground. then when i purchased it i was so exited i paid for overnight shipping which was 38$.so all in all ive spent about 357$ for this board and ive havent really got to use it properlly.its upsetting to say the least.

[seban]

i hear you the first board i sent,i spent 39 $ for overnight shipping to speed up the proccess. the second 10 $ ground. then when i purchased it i was so exited i paid for overnight shipping which was 38$.so all in all ive spent about 357$ for this board and ive havent really got to use it properlly.its upsetting to say the least.

I prefer not to count how much I spent on it all together - I like to stay in good mood for rest of the day

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EDIT:

Because I am still not sure if I understand GTL correctly I took a different road for figuring out what is wrong with my 4ghz 2h small ftt stable but craping out after 2min of blend.

I started on same settings as for 4ghz but on 450 so 3.8 and GTLs on Auto and uppin by 5 and testing blend and linx so 450->455->460 and so on.

Now question is - is 5 passes of linpack ok for assuming it is stable enough to go further?

[Rocks]

I would say no to that seban. I have done 5 passes and passed then failed 10. Also make sure it is on maximum stress. I think 20 passes should be good. It tests it enough times so that it will increase the chance of a number being different. The fewer times you test the lower chance you have of any numbers being different and it can give you a false positive.

[SkOrPn]

Thanks for the reply George, I will give that a try. Im also going to try these settings as well.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/...postcount=2112

Posted early on but I missed it....

[seban]

I would say no to that seban. I have done 5 passes and passed then failed 10. Also make sure it is on maximum stress. I think 20 passes should be good. It tests it enough times so that it will increase the chance of a number being different. The fewer times you test the lower chance you have of any numbers being different and it can give you a false positive.

YEah you r right. 5 linpack is too little as I just discovered. 450 which passed 5 linpacks now is giving me errors.

[cstkl1]

I prefer not to count how much I spent on it all together - I like to stay in good mood for rest of the day

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EDIT:

Because I am still not sure if I understand GTL correctly I took a different road for figuring out what is wrong with my 4ghz 2h small ftt stable but craping out after 2min of blend.

I started on same settings as for 4ghz but on 450 so 3.8 and GTLs on Auto and uppin by 5 and testing blend and linx so 450->455->460 and so on.

Now question is - is 5 passes of linpack ok for assuming it is stable enough to go further?

4gb min 15passes
2gb min 50 pases
basically complete atleast an hour

[Grnfinger]

50 passes of linpak is unnecessary , the only thing you will accomplish is killing your hardware.

[radaja]

even though my temps are good im still nervous running linpack more than ten passes,the most ive run orthos was three hrs and then i stopped it.i dont know how people are able to run it overnight.while mine is running,im always keeping a close eye on it.maybe i just dont have guts to push it to hard.

[GeorgeVasil]

50 passes of linpak is unnecessary , the only thing you will accomplish is killing your hardware.

+1

Personally i use linpack for a quick CPU stability only,Because with linpack rams are not used @100% especially if u use 4GB or a non 64bit OS.

4-6h 2ple prime blend is more accurate than >all.

My 2 cent.

[JoeBar]

Personally i use linpack for a quick CPU stability only.

I too agree on that. Running 50 passes is a total wasted of power...

[seban]

EDIT - not important any more.

[SiGfever]

I do two hours Prime95 blend and if it passes I run WCG "Boinc" overnight to finish testing.

[seban]

I know about and also I experienced it myself that vNB-Vtt>1.xx V depending on FSB.

But did any of you noticed what is happening to me right now. So the higher I go with FSB the bigger and almost maximum difference must be between vNB and Vtt. Otherwise my Vist will tear when moving windows around and fore example in core temp FSB field will flicker.

So windows tearing is happening. To prevent it I have to pump vNB almost to its maximum allowed by current Vtt.

It is early observation as I am running v high voltage ATM I will tweak them down once I achieve stability - maybe lowering voltages will have influence on this strange behaviour.

Anybody with same experience?
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EDIT - day after : so quiet here today nobody is writing anything, I start to feel lonely with my problems

[ViViD]

Hi
1 Question:
Why I Don't Get Over 490 FSB With My Q9550
Any Voltage Any Disable/Enabled I Can't Get 500*6 For Example
Any 1 Could Get Me Current Setting For Find Max FSB On This Board?
Sorry For My Broken ENG

[seban]

hmm I was playing recently with GTL witch made me stable 10pases of Linpack and around 1h of Blend on 3.97ghz and I stopped because it was late but it looked like 4ghz is just there after another 5mins of tweaking.

Yesterday with same same settings I was not stable at 3.97 :O hmm crashing after 2-3mins of blend .

Anybody had issues like this? One day stable other not? All temps were in acceptable range around 50 for NB and SB and 47 for Power so I would not say they are the factor here - but I might be mistaken.

If in your case dear reader you never had situation like this on MF2 (one day stable other not) then also pls write as it is same importance info to me as if some one had same funny acting from Mobo.

Any input is welcome.

[The Water Dog]

Hi
1 Question:
Why I Don't Get Over 490 FSB With My Q9550
Any Voltage Any Disable/Enabled I Can't Get 500*6 For Example
Any 1 Could Get Me Current Setting For Find Max FSB On This Board?
Sorry For My Broken ENG

Becouse 490 is good when you use a quad, my max is 485 with Q6600( not much tweaking )

[GeorgeVasil]

Guyz should i put washers everywhere or only to the NB area?

[seban]

Guyz should i put washers everywhere or only to the NB area?

I have better resolute with washers under every screw - but effects may differ depending on craftsmanship of your cooling. Mine is obviously crapy so when I was putting washers only under NB it was warping my Mobo even more then it is warped now (with washer under all screws) - and it is warped pretty badly.

Also because of less warping done the temps are better on some sensors (in compare to only NB washer mod). And way better then without any washers.

So in conclusion if your Mobo is straight as arrow without washers you can go for only NB washer mod and see what happens. If it is already warped in Power section around CPU socket then I would start from washer under all screws.

But best way is to try both ways IMHO and see what works best for you.

Hope it helps

[GeorgeVasil]

I have better resolute with washers under every screw - but effects may differ depending on craftsmanship of your cooling. Mine is obviously crapy so when I was putting washers only under NB it was warping my Mobo even more then it is warped now (with washer under all screws) - and it is warped pretty badly.

Also because of less warping done the temps are better on some sensors (in compare to only NB washer mod). And way better then without any washers.

OK M8 thanks for the answer.

I will try to put everywhere.

[seban]

OK M8 thanks for the answer.

I will try to put everywhere.

One more thing I was also experimenting with 1mm steel washers for all screws and 2mm silicon for NB ones but still best results for my Mobo gave me same washer for each screw out there (in my case 2mm silicon ones).

[ViViD]

Hi Thanx M8
Could U Get Me Current Setting About X6 Multiplier CPU(Ratio CMOS Setting) With Max FSB On Q9550
Maybe I Cant Find Max FSB On MF2 With Quad??
I Cant Get Over 490 Too!!!

[bito]

Has anyone tried 1802 bios ?

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/so...rmula-1802.zip

[NazGulPRB]

Yes. Fixes Multiplier bug (on my Q6600)

[seban]

Yes. Fixes Multiplier bug (on my Q6600)

And pull ins ? are they working?