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

[t_ski]

Has any one removed the IHS from the north bridge chipset and if so how?(without destroying the MB in the process).

Its rather simple, remove the screws, pull on the NB ( you might have to take a screw driver and use the dimm slot for leverage and GENTLY pry up on the NB)
Once you remove it, settle in for a while you now get to remove the cement like tim.

Grnfinger, I think he's referring to the IHS on the NB, not the NB heatsink. To my knowledge, the only ones I saw that had been removed got killed in the process.

On, to my latest struggle...

When I set the FSB to 425, it hangs at DET DRAM. So I looked at the OCZ site for my ram, and it says 2.1v - 2.3v, but not to exceed 2.1v if it says so on the lable. Mine seemed perfectly stable at 2.1v, so I didn't think anything of it before. I looked at the stickers and it says 1066, 5-5-15 at 2.2v. So I bumped up the juice to 2.21v and it posted, but locked up on the post screen. I reset it and upped the voltage again to 2.3v, and it posted again, at least occasionally. Sometimes I would get a weird error saying "New CPU installed. Update the BIOS to take full advantage of the features for this CPU." Other times I got a Bootmgr error and Windows wouldn't load The CMOS wouldn't reset right away for that one either - it took a little trying

I was up to almost 2:00 am last night working on the FSB issue. I got tired of trying to figure out why it wouldn't hit 425 FSB and ran Prime at 9 x 424 (3.8 GHz). It went for over 9 hours error free.

Included for your viewing pleasure is a MemSet ss. Any suggestions for getting over the 1063 MHz wall would be appreciated.