ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[SteveDay72]

I bought an "open box" Asus Maximus II Formula from NewEgg recently.

Only received a bare board, which seemed to have a residue (like drip marks) all over the bottom of the board.

I called NewEgg to complain and also spoke to Asus - they both denied responsibility and Newegg would not replace (only refund).

Anyway, I guessed that it might have been from some type of circuit board cleaner and decided to test it out. I cleaned it up well with rubbinng alcohol and silicone spray (applied with q-tips). It seems to work okay - or did before I sent the faulty ram (Corsair Dominator 1066MHz 2x2Gb CL5) back to NewEgg for replacement. Now I'm waiting for the new ram to arrive before I can test it any further.

I saw another review earlier today via a Google search and a photo of that particular board had the same "drip" marks on the bottom of it.

Did anyone else receive a board that had this mess on the bottom?

[WhiteFireDragon]

I bought an "open box" Asus Maximus II Formula from NewEgg recently.

Only received a bare board, which seemed to have a residue (like drip marks) all over the bottom of the board.

I called NewEgg to complain and also spoke to Asus - they both denied responsibility and Newegg would not replace (only refund).

Did anyone else receive a board that had this mess on the bottom?

but hey, for $135, there's not much to complain about as long as it works fine.

[SteveDay72]

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Only received a bare board, which seemed to have a residue (like drip marks) all over the bottom of the board.
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Did anyone else receive a board that had this mess on the bottom?

but hey, for $135, there's not much to complain about as long as it works fine.

Yes, it was a great deal for one of these boards, but I was worried that it had suffered some kind of liquid damage, which might only show a fault later on somewhere.

Steve

[seban]

I just noticed that on post it shows 3.96ghz when 8.5x 464 is 3.944ghz - does your post info is also rounded so badly ppl?

Sounds familiar, i'd like to hear if you find solution for that.
On my own system, just like yours IBT/LINX/PRIME/HCI MEMTEST stable still random hang ups sometimes. Few notch vCore have always solved this issue but i cant see any mind why Idle state needs more vCore than fully loaded system?

Will play with vcore. Also maybe it is time to try skews . The biggest issue is that if it passes p95 and linx it will be just waiting for next reboot to be sure that all is ok or not.

Will keep u posted.

All I can see are the cpu and NB GTL's look way different to what everyone else (and I) seem to be running. May be try tweaking them some more.
Try 40/10/40/10. Post back any results

Those GTLs r quite fine tuned this is why they look so strange - but I can take a look also at 40/10 why not? whatever helps

I bought an "open box" Asus Maximus II Formula from NewEgg recently.

Only received a bare board, which seemed to have a residue (like drip marks) all over the bottom of the board.

I called NewEgg to complain and also spoke to Asus - they both denied responsibility and Newegg would not replace (only refund).

Anyway, I guessed that it might have been from some type of circuit board cleaner and decided to test it out. I cleaned it up well with rubbinng alcohol and silicone spray (applied with q-tips). It seems to work okay - or did before I sent the faulty ram (Corsair Dominator 1066MHz 2x2Gb CL5) back to NewEgg for replacement. Now I'm waiting for the new ram to arrive before I can test it any further.

I saw another review earlier today via a Google search and a photo of that particular board had the same "drip" marks on the bottom of it.

Did anyone else receive a board that had this mess on the bottom?

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