Asus Maximus 2 Formula P45: 670MHz FSB with E8500 !!!

[Vivi]

Hi guys, i really dont want to kill the thunder, and WElldone dude, awesome fsb and BEUT picture.

But. what can you reach dualchannel? having one stick of ram in the board isnt really helpfull, and all these ppl posting here wanting to buy it think it will do 640 when they have their ram in there (only some of them :p). I had a gigabyte Ep45 extreme, it could do 640 FSB single channel, but as soon as i use 2 ram sticks i cant really get above 550 fsb, but i only had the board for 2 days.

If your board can do 600 Dual channel, then it truelly is amazing
The ppl talking about commando's doing 660 mean 660fsb dual channel, so it can be used for 3d and 32m, thats why HWBOT isnt thrashed yet.

Some of the ppl have managed 600+ dual channel 3d stable, but i want to see more. specially on this board, cause i want to get it one day.

Thanks and welldone

[trans am]

omg I love this board. Definitely my next purchase.

[Felipe]

670?? lol!!

[Gendo]

So people who have this board, do you recommend buying it?
I'm looking for a new mobo (p45 and asus preferably) and I'm wondering which one to get. I'll use dice and maybe LN2 in the future. Thanks in advance

[WaterFlex]

Mate, I`m going to buy this great mobo on Monday. Believe me, it is worth of buying it! Maximus II Formula is masterpiece!!!
P45>>>X38,X48!

[subaruwrc]

I become from Asus France one Maximus 2 Formula last week



It's my picture

First, I test with my E8500 and my E8400 the FSB with watercooling (same as aircool).
I was surpsised when I saw tha I reached 640Mhz on screen, and be able to do SuperPi 1M at 625Mhz.
I just give 1.42V to the NorthBridge, because more will decrease my FSB.

Then, I put my E8500 under my 2-Stages (made by Skrims-Fr).
In the first run, I reach 660*8 with my E8500. But, in touching CPU GTL, I just get 670MHz FSB !!!

Amazing isn't it ?



Asus ROG was really not the best to get high FSB, but this Maximus 2 Formula prove that Asus is still working on it

Huge FSB. Congrats.
Killer cpu u got there. lets see 670*9.5

[KiDMaioRKz]

so this mobo is born for ocing ?? !!!!

[TheKarmakazi]

so this mobo is born for ocing ?? !!!!

Have you been under a rock?

j/k

Yes it a OC'ers dream. Just some problems with memory dividers and running high FSB with dual channel. Things will probably get straightened with some new bios. Its a relatively new chipset so I expect within a month or two should be functioning much better.

[MARCO74]

Very Impressive FSB.... nice cpu

[Gendo]

Any news on what fsb people get in dual channel? I've ordered mine and I should get it soon and I'd hate to be disappointed by the fsb it reaches.

[TheScavenger]

Great job

[Vivi]

Any news on what fsb people get in dual channel? I've ordered mine and I should get it soon and I'd hate to be disappointed by the fsb it reaches.

probly around 550 dual channel

[Gendo]

how on earth did you get 670?
Last thursday me and a friend tested 3 of these bords and the boards only got to 470-505

O and wtf did asus use to make that nb heatsink? the lowest temperature I've seen on it is 60*C

[Vivi]

He did single channel bru, use 1 stick and your FSB will fly

[ApocaLeXX]

Hi there. Just got this mobo. Hoped to get 600+ FSB.
But I could reach only 450 in bios and 470-480 in win and it often shows BSODs.
Made 1.35v on cpu 1.23v on NB 1.53 on PLL and 1.53v on fsb termination.
I tried with my E6600. I know it can do ~600 fsb.
POST says that proglem is in memory coz it hangs with "dte dram" message.
I tried it with my 2x1 gkx and with 2x1 hynix. There was no differences. Mem was set 1:1 to fsb.
Bioses tried 0503(was with mobo) and the last one 0901 as i remember.
with 1 channel it goes much better - 530-540 fsb could do 1M.
But the dualchannel needed =\
So the question is: am i so lefthanded or it's mobos problems?

[CryptiK]

Nice FSB, but as said above, what can it do dual channel? Very interested. If it can't do more than 480 - 540 FSB dual channel that's very weak.
There would think there would be something very wrong if the Maximus 2F couldn't do better, given its price and marketing as a top end board.

My P45 P5Q-Deluxe will do 590 FSB dual channel and would definitely do more if I pushed vcore higher. I can bench at 571 FSB dual channel also and that's not even pushing the vNB over 1.26v.

[Gendo]

The max I have got on my m2f is around 575-580 dual channel. It's a very nice board for high mem clocks tho! Mine does 716Mhz CL5 in dual channel. Also I think this board does a lot better with yorkfields than with wolfdales. But then the 2x8 PCI-E screws up the possibility for high end 3d benching

[DonInKansas]

Truly sick clock on a sexy looking board!!!

[KURTZ]

superb result Traxman, what are your settings (i mean vFSB, PLL and others)? and also what is your liquid? thx mate, keep in touch

[lha]

Omg, i want that mobo too!

But nice FSB, good job mate

[Eeky NoX]

Quiet great fa sure !! Can't attempt to get this...but still working to get nice scores with the E8600 & Crucials D9GMH

[MiniMe1978]

hello from germany

i hope somebody can help me with little tips

my m2f reach

525x8,5 with 4x1gb crucial ballistix 800 .

somebody here who reach about 550fsb or 600 fsb on air with maybe 4x1gb? i also have 2x1gb teamgroup 1300 rams

or other scores around 550-600fsb? i would like to see some settings from different people maybe i can change some little details to get more from my board. the cpu should do 4512MHz at 1,312v but i dont know about its fsb wall, becaus i need some setting tips to get more fsb, thx

[@rne]

I had two of them, none did 550MHz + primestable

[MiniMe1978]

board, cpu or ram? wich is the highest fsb with your boards an wich volts?

[KanGaXx]

ALL people are calling MIRACLE but i see nothing...

this motherboard is worst than Rampage Extreme and DFI DK P45-t2rs plus... why should i have to buy this ? 670 single channel is nothing... with all my 3 dfi i could reach 640-660gsb dual channel... with rampage extreme 650 it's easy...