ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Fragger]

@Radaja One loop is fine and dont bother cooling the SB or PWM, just not worthwhile. My vid card benefited the most from watercooling, it dropped 30+ degrees and no more screaming fan.

[CryptiK]

@Radaja One loop is fine and dont bother cooling the SB or PWM, just not worthwhile. My vid card benefited the most from watercooling, it dropped 30+ degrees and no more screaming fan.

Under full load on a hot day my board's PWM gets to 46*C+, this is using a true with no real direct airflow over PWM sinks except case rear and top fans pullng air past them. Guys with quads, especially watercooled, report PWM temps over 55*C. I'm not sure what constitutes 'too hot' though.

You guys are getting some insane clocks on this board and im extremely tempted by it!!
Is there anything similar like a "Maximus II Extreme" for a DDR3 version? I really dont wanna go back to DDR2 when my g.skills overclock sooooo nicely

but seriously.. its an amazing board!

There's no Maximus II Extreme. P45 and DDR3 is not a really good combination, they just don't clock ram very well with a nice low tRD (PL), the P45 is too weak. Add a quad into that equation and it's a poor performer. Your Rampage Extreme would be a much better platform, you should be able to get your quad to ~4.3 GHz on that board.

it did a good job of keeping the nb cooler than without it.

today the nb hit 67* playin L4D online without the tumbler attached.
just played some L4D bout 2hrs ago with the tumbler, nb didnt go above 56* - the ambient is very high in this room, no oxygen...

I have QFan enabled for everything, just wondering when the fan speeds kick up into full throttle, even though its whisper silent right now.
The tumbler does around 6000rpm and is a bit noisy, but with QFan its at 2700rpm, cant hear it.

11*C improvement is pretty good for such a small fan. At 2700 rpm it cant be moving a lot of air.

[Celcius]

This board makes overclocking a breeze:

All voltages are stock except for a slight bump on the cpu.

[Fragger]

Under full load on a hot day my board's PWM gets to 46*C+, this is using a true with no real direct airflow over PWM sinks except case rear and top fans pullng air past them. Guys with quads, especially watercooled, report PWM temps over 55*C. I'm not sure what constitutes 'too hot' though.

I have used the supplied Asus fan on the PWM beside the back panel which also helps cool the NB thanks to the heat pipe and the psu fan is sucking air over the other set which has a huge heatsink on it so I really dont think it would be worthwhile to watercool them. Asus knew this board would get watercooled, they even collaborated with Swiftech to produce a NB block just for it http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=24408