ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Grnfinger]

Just to reply Simps on Gigabyte Thread, I won't be answering any questions here only there to avoid people getting upset. This is Asus thread so discussions should be Asus only...

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I know it's not a competition there is nothing to compete for, but sometimes it sounds like you underestimate engineers, if they build something to work with 6 Phase it's because they know what they are doing. Just because Asus has 16 Phase doesn't mean they can hold anything better. In fact as far as I'm concern the smallest route between to points is still a straight line...

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[System Setup]
CPU: Q9650@3500Mhz 500x7
Voltages:
VCORE=1.29V
VTT=1.20V
VPLL=1.5V
VNB=1.26V
VSB=1.1V
VDIMM=2.24V
Mobo: Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
Cooler: Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer
Ram: 2 x 2Gb - 4gb G.Skill Pi 9600 @1200 5-5-4-15
Video: X1300
PSU: OCZ Powerstream 520w Adj


[Stability and Memory Benchmark Testing]
I can't show Prime95 now as I don't have 7hrs of the day, but testing was done using IBT Max and HCi Memtest 3.8 150%. If my systems passes those 2they can Prime95 all year. But I can Prime95 during the week if you insist.

Another note is that Everest OSD doesn't show much info on this board only the stuff is on screen so you have to see all voltages on ET6 (Easy Tuner 6).


IBT 35 Loops Maximum Stress starting - LOAD (I can only see pics of your system on Idle)


This board is pretty much a joy to use, so easy you can hit and tweak and you can get the job done.

No matter how low volts you use this board will use less and remain stable and no matter how high fsb you want this board will keep breaking records with Quads.

Hope that settles the friendly inter-thread challenge

Good looking clocks there, I had a chance to play with one and wish I had bought it , it would have been a great benching board.

Jor3lBR,

Wow, very nice numbers, but yes, prime is needed. No prime, the comparison is even less apples to apples as it already is.
I also see that your CPU is a 45nm, it will by definition need less volts to it its business on the same clock a 65nm will. That is independent on boards or anything. Its just a better and newer cpu. That is the major thing making the comparison even less fair.

I see the vPLL and vFSB you needed was lower then mine. But those are very cpu related, and this is a problem when comparing 45nm to 65nm cpus.
The vNB I used was lower then yours. I was on 1.23 on bios and 1.24 reported on everest, as you can see on pics. This voltage is much less cpu dependend that the others, but still, you are on 2x2gb mem, and I am on 2x1GB mem, which could explain it too.

I guess the only way to compare it, would be the same CPU running on each board. That would be the best. Or, second way, if I had a 45nm or you a 65nm. I don't have a 45nm. Do you have a 65nm quad by a chance?

Anyway, the numbers are good. Congrats. But as a comparison, it won't do, because the difference on the CPU's are much more then I imagined.

Anyway, this is what I get on the everest, for the mems clocked as yours. My write and copy values, are lower because I have less cache on the CPU (65nm vs 45nm). Every 65nm cpu will have lower write / copy. But the read / latency are unafected by the less cache and are fair comparison.



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Simps

What ram you running there?
Everest scores look a little low...