ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[Kayso]

Here is my Prime95 stable for 8*450. Memory is at 1080 Mhz - Stronger PL8.



I have to wait one weak for my new 4GB G.SKILL PC8800 Kit, so for now I will stop here. After I install my new memory I will go for 470 and 480 if it is capable to go for 1150

[SiGfever]

Hey guys,
I am still on 1307 bios, is there any need to go to 1901? I was reading Simp's guide and he recommended 1901.
Thanks.

[Grnfinger]

Hey guys,
I am still on 1307 bios, is there any need to go to 1901? I was reading Simp's guide and he recommended 1901.
Thanks.

no I see no benifit from 1307 to 1802 or 1901.
They offer nothing, I tested 2 chips on both boards and niether 1 of them performed any better or required less volts....

[SiGfever]

no I see no benifit from 1307 to 1802 or 1901.
They offer nothing, I tested 2 chips on both boards and niether 1 of them performed any better or required less volts....

Thanks for the reply Grnfinger, I will stay with 1307 then.

[Celcius]

Using +10 on the nb gtl got me stable:



I'm also using +20/-20/+20/-20 on the cpu gtls

[Mean Machine]

Haven't read the entire thread (for obvious reasons), but anybody heard anything about a multiplier issue with the mobo and a QX9770? No matter what I do, the multiplier stays at 8x, which kind of sucks when you got a QX. Had "some old" BIOS before, now I'm using 1602 and will try the newest one just for the sake of it.

[Grnfinger]

Haven't read the entire thread (for obvious reasons), but anybody heard anything about a multiplier issue with the mobo and a QX9770? No matter what I do, the multiplier stays at 8x, which kind of sucks when you got a QX. Had "some old" BIOS before, now I'm using 1602 and will try the newest one just for the sake of it.

you see if you botherd to read the thread you would know that 1602 is crap and has the multi bug

1307 1802 and 1901 are all decent bios releases
For best ram compatibility use 1901

[Mean Machine]

Well, I just don't bother to read 121 pages with stupid questions like my own.

The weird thing is that the BIOS before it also had it, but no worries, I'm all fine on 1901 now.

[radaja]

thats exactly why you should read it,otherwise it just starts to repeat the same questions over and over,come on ,you have to put forward a little effort here.

[WhiteFireDragon]

i'm having trouble reaching 500fsb on a q9650. right now i'm at 490 and i can't get the last few mhz in. i suspect that it's my memory not letting me go higher, but is there any way i can find out for sure? i'm using crucial ballistixs (yeah i know, it's crucial ) and it won't boot at 5-5-5-18 so i loosened the timing to 6-6-6-20. which memory is 1200mhz stable for 24/7 these days? i'll post a template for all my settings later.

most of the time, the unstability shows when the whole computer freezes instead of certain cores failing when priming. is this memory problem is do i need to tune something else?

[Kayso]

i'm having trouble reaching 500fsb on a q9650. right now i'm at 490 and i can't get the last few mhz in. i suspect that it's my memory not letting me go higher, but is there any way i can find out for sure? i'm using crucial ballistixs (yeah i know, it's crucial ) and it won't boot at 5-5-5-18 so i loosened the timing to 6-6-6-20. which memory is 1200mhz stable for 24/7 these days? i'll post a template for all my settings later.

most of the time, the unstability shows when the whole computer freezes instead of certain cores failing when priming. is this memory problem is do i need to tune something else?

I can't reach 500 mhz with my quad too, no matter what I do. It posts but can't load windows.
So don't worry you are not alone

[Grnfinger]

i'm having trouble reaching 500fsb on a q9650. right now i'm at 490 and i can't get the last few mhz in. i suspect that it's my memory not letting me go higher, but is there any way i can find out for sure? i'm using crucial ballistixs (yeah i know, it's crucial ) and it won't boot at 5-5-5-18 so i loosened the timing to 6-6-6-20. which memory is 1200mhz stable for 24/7 these days? i'll post a template for all my settings later.

most of the time, the unstability shows when the whole computer freezes instead of certain cores failing when priming. is this memory problem is do i need to tune something else?

Run your ram 1:1 PL10 then it should boot.
I need a ton of vNB to get 500FSB 3D stable, up vSB 1.1 to around 1.20 it should help.

[Kayso]

Run your ram 1:1 PL10 then it should boot.
I need a ton of vNB to get 500FSB 3D stable, up vSB 1.1 to around 1.20 it should help.

SB то 1.2
and how much vNB ?? what do you mean by TON of it

[WhiteFireDragon]

Run your ram 1:1 PL10 then it should boot.
I need a ton of vNB to get 500FSB 3D stable, up vSB 1.1 to around 1.20 it should help.

nice 500fsb! are you able to go higher?

my mobo is horrible with 1:1. it won't even boot when memory is 1:1 984mhz PL10 moderate. right now i have it at 5:6 1180mhz PL9 stronger. NB is at 1.45v but i'm only running 2x1gb sticks. what is considered a TON of volts? i'll try upping the SB to see if it's stable and report back with results.

[Furiøùs]

Well, after much tweaking and trying many different settings and re-reading Simps guide about 6 times, I've got something im proud of.

485 x 8.5xMulti for 4.14Ghz on my Q9650, with a 400mhz strap 1:1 @ 970mhz on the ram. Yes it's low, but it'll have to do until i have 150 to get 2 sets of OCZ Reaper 1150 ram, which i'll be able to do the 333 strap and get 1177 out of *drool*.

Pretty happy! Thanks to Simps guide, the NB GTL @ +30 made it all work, 490 still crashes after an hour, 500 crashes after 10min. I gave up on those two, i dont think my chip can handle it, and i also had 490 going but when i throw my other 2 sticks in to the equation, it messes with stuff.

Right now im memtesting my ram with 5-5-5-15 (i know it's stable) with DRAM Static Read Control enabled, Mem OC charger enabled, CPL @ 10 (cant go lower or wont post) and STRONG. Stronger errors out in memtest 3% in

Pretty happy! I dont really feel any faster but for bragging rights it pwns. my Everest scores are up a bit, i lost like 300 in my Read but i gained a 100 or so in the rest of the benchmarks so i win
What's amazing is the CPU GTL's. +20/-20/+20/-20 fixed everything! Im running 4.14Ghz at the same voltage i did at 4.05. Insane! the GTLs were awesome. Im thinking about trying +30/-10/+30/-10 to see if i can get it lower.. but my Vista has taken alot of blue screens in the last week or so and i dont feel like reinstalling lol.

Thanks guys for all the help! Cant wait till i get my hands on some 1150 - 1200 ram, then im REALLY going to exploit this board.

[Celcius]

Anyone have a tip for getting the mobo usb headers to work? I never could seem to get them to work with my stacker's front usb connections...

[xoldboyx]

Run your ram 1:1 PL10 then it should boot.
I need a ton of vNB to get 500FSB 3D stable, up vSB 1.1 to around 1.20 it should help.

could you please post the whole setting setup?

[folklore11]

the last time i tried esata, it just ruined my windows install.
do you have to plug it all in, then turn the power on?

also, will the speedinghdd ports handle 2 seperate drives not in any raid mode?
i wanna swap back to single drives instead of raid-0, but like the fact that its on a pcie lane rather than the useless pci bottlenecked bus.

Tired that too. Can hear the HD spin up, but windows never "sees" drive.

[Grnfinger]

nice 500fsb! are you able to go higher?

my mobo is horrible with 1:1. it won't even boot when memory is 1:1 984mhz PL10 moderate. right now i have it at 5:6 1180mhz PL9 stronger. NB is at 1.45v but i'm only running 2x1gb sticks. what is considered a TON of volts? i'll try upping the SB to see if it's stable and report back with results.

506FSB is best I can do 3D stable, I might grab a 9650 and play with that 4.2GHz is my goal for a 24/7 setup
try these for 500FSB

CPU PLL Voltage : 1.60600
FSBT : 1.40475
DRAM Voltage : 1.98
North Bridge Voltage : 1.51075
South Bridge Voltage 1.5 : 1.55300
South Bridge Voltage 1.1 : 1.20600

Then work them down form there, thats what I did.

My final 500FSB settings that I cant call stable cause 1 core drops after 3 hours of prime and no matter what I try I cant resolve the issue

CPU PLL Voltage : 1.53975
FSBT : 1.378
DRAM Voltage : 1.9
North Bridge Voltage : 1.51075
South Bridge Voltage 1.5 : 1.55300
South Bridge Voltage 1.1 : 1.20600

Anyone have a tip for getting the mobo usb headers to work? I never could seem to get them to work with my stacker's front usb connections...

Use the little blue quick connect/adapters mine did not work untill I used them.

[Celcius]

Use the little blue quick connect/adapters mine did not work untill I used them.

Didn't work for me, but as long as rear usb works I'm good.

[SiGfever]

Didn't work for me, but as long as rear usb works I'm good.

I hooked my Aquaero's usb cable up to the second MB port and it works fine.

[lha]

Hey guys, i bought M2F few days ago and i am confused.
I dont get even 500 fsb with my E8500 and g.skill. i am running ram only in one channel.
I havent found the "code" for this mobo in setfsb program so does this mobo even work on setfsb.
I am little dissapointed for this mobo cos it didnt show to be so good. So can you help me to get higher fsb and tell me some exiting stuff

[radaja]

Iha,dont get discouraged.you have only been at it for a couple of days.i dont know much about setfsb but you should be able to achieve your OC goals within the bios.there are plenty of template's for the E8500'S in this thread to use as a good starting point.just have to be willing to read through it.good luck

[Eeky NoX]

Hello to the assembly ^^ I'll come back in the place in a couple of weeks buizy wit UD3 for now !

@Iha: no don't be so sad you'll have what you want with them
For SetFSB it works and you should raise between 533+ with lot vNB and good ramchips GD_LCK!

BIOS 1307 : Still waitin' for some improvement about ram frequency

[ZX672]

This is my first post on this forum, but I have been using this thread to build this machine (thanks Guys, your info helped a lot). Finally got everything running (purchased the mobo some time ago) and wanted to run a couple of my settings by the community and see what you guys think. The last time I overclocked a CPU was back in the slot 1 Celeron days..... My rig specs are below....

CPU-Z photo attached

Thanks,

Ai Overclock Tuner : Manual
OC From CPU Level Up : AUTO
CPU Ratio Control : Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting : 9
FSB Frequency : 450
CPU Clock Skew : Normal
North Bridge Clock Skew : Normal
FSB Strap to North Bridge : Auto
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-1066 MHz
Dram Clock Skew CH1 A1 : Normal
DRAM Clock Skew CH1 A2 : Normal
Dram Clock Skew CH1 B1 : Normal
Dram Clock Skew CH1 B2 : Normal

DRAM Static Read Control: disabled
Dram Read Training : disabled
MEM OC Charger : disabled
Ai Clock Twister : Moderate
Transaction Booster : Manual
Common Performance Level: 10
PCIE Frequency : 100

CPU Voltage : 1.36250v
CPU PLL Voltage : 1.51325v
FSBT : 1.2v
DRAM Voltage : 2.1v
North Bridge Voltage : 1.32525v
South Bridge Voltage 1.5 : 1.5
South Bridge Voltage 1.1 : 1.1

Load Line Calabration : Enabled
CPU Sread Spectrum : Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum : Disabled

CPU Configuration:

Ratio CMOS Setting: 9
C1E Support: Disabled
Max CPUID Value Limit: Disabled
Intel Virtualization Tech: Enable
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Enabled

Load-Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled