ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[purplehaze]

that board looks like sex..i want one.

[thedan55]

hey lads ive been following the guide here and ive just finished testing my CPU GTLS and everything went fine with the testing and all.

but now when i restart my system it wont post it will just hang, i force switch it off switch on again and post will give me this error

"CPU TO CORE BUS RATIO OR VID CONFIG HAS FAILED"

so i go back into the bios change nothing then posts and gets into windows fine, but when i restart or shut down same thing?!?!??!?!

ive changed the VCC but makes no difference

any help please?

[thedan55]

oh i changed the fsb strap from 333 to auto and worked fine.

any ideas??? should i leave it on auto?while i continue oc'ing

[humeyboy]

The 333 Strap is buggy, notice how it reads 1mhz over for Memory you set to 1:1 with the FSB !

I ain't sure if it really is 1mhz out or just a bad reading.

For me 333 is more stable than 400 which is weird as 333 is tighter.

[In-Fluence]

"CPU TO CORE BUS RATIO OR VID CONFIG HAS FAILED"
any help please?

Not seen that one before. Have you tried removing the CPU, and powering up without it? This gives a hard reset and clear CMOS well. Worked most of the time when I had persistent issues with posting.

[humeyboy]

Pulling all Memory and powering up was way to reset on a NF2, CPU removal is a bit of a choir.

[thedan55]

thing was i was testing all the gtls on 333 then all of a sudden said that. changed to auto and not had an error since but not finished overclocking with that guide yet tho

so just wondering shall i ignore the 333 strap error and carry on overcloking or take the memory out and in then see what happenes?

[thedan55]

hey lads i tested all the gtls and the longest i got on prime without a crash was 1.19. im going to use that as my gtl is that ok??

in the guide it says you would want one that lasts like 5 mins but that was my longest.

oh and i left my fsb strap on auto, took the memory out and still crashed on 333.

the result i got for 1.19 was on ddr2-872mhz i want to change that and test again on 978 or something around that. it will be faster on the latter right?

this board is quite a big challenge lol

[WaterFlex]

Guys. Can you share with your BIOS settings for Dual Cores oc`ed 500x9 ?

[SkOrPn]

Guys. Can you share with your BIOS settings for Dual Cores oc`ed 500x9 ?

These always seem to work great for me

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/...16#post3469516

[DonNiger]

A bit too much to read. Simple question - is it a good board?

[WaterFlex]

DonNiger
Yes, this board is great. But why not to go with i5/i7?

[CryptiK]

A bit too much to read. Simple question - is it a good board?

That depends on what you want to do with it. For a 24/7 board they're great with duals, mine clocked ram quite well, but they can't handle quads like the UD3P/R's.

[STEFANOVASJ]

Hey guys i want to know what is the best bios for ocing a e8XXX.
Because i am with the same bios from almost 2 years.
I want to lower my vcore a little more because now it is 1.24 for 4.1 ghz i want a little lower.
this is where i am at the mo

my fsb is 513 x8

CPU VCORE-1.26( 1.24 real)
PLL V-1.57950
FSB TERMINATION/VTT- 1.33200
DRAM V- 2.19
NBCORE - 1.29
SB CORE 1.5 - 1.55000
SB 1.1 CORE - 1.15000

[SkOrPn]

Hey guys i want to know what is the best bios for ocing a e8XXX.
Because i am with the same bios from almost 2 years.
I want to lower my vcore a little more because now it is 1.24 for 4.1 ghz i want a little lower.
this is where i am at the mo

my fsb is 513 x8

CPU VCORE-1.26( 1.24 real)
PLL V-1.57950
FSB TERMINATION/VTT- 1.33200
DRAM V- 2.19
NBCORE - 1.29
SB CORE 1.5 - 1.55000
SB 1.1 CORE - 1.15000

It seems most agree that 1901 is the best OC'ing bios, at least Ive seen it mentioned quite a few times throughout this thread....

[STEFANOVASJ]

Absolutely no difrene when changing bios.
Today i tried to oc my cpu to 4.8 but it doesent want i keep increasing voltages but it boots up windows and blue screen.
vcore 1.53
north bridge 1.42
cpu pll 1.60
vtt.137
and it didnt want to do anything diffreremt when i keep raising
on 4.7 it boots and goes trough benchamks without problems on 1.48 vcore

[ajdaho]

hello people
I buy this mobo , it is great , my q9550 works with 4,1 ghz /1,336V (vid 1,2875V) , that all , I can not get fsb 495mhz , but I'm happy , for me this is enough , sorry for my bad English , kind regards from Poland

[CryptiK]

Hi ajdaho welcome to XS.

Nice overclock, you've done better than quite a few people in terms of maximum stable FSB with a quad on this board.

[ajdaho]

may be this will be helpful for others :












and my "monster":

[humeyboy]

Hi ajdaho welcome to XS.

Nice overclock, you've done better than quite a few people in terms of maximum stable FSB with a quad on this board.

Is it stable, no mention of Prime/IBT etc.

I got to 495FSB with some stability only due to the , If I was able to set the CPU/NB Skews more precisely.

If the NB was in in 50ps steps instead of 100ps steps I think 495 and 500 would be stable.

[ajdaho]

[TJ TRICHEESE]

Whatever evga/gigabyte/msi tries to do Asus always stays on top when it comes to mobo's and custom vga's (maybe not msi lightning 260/275)

[humeyboy]

You would be better of running the newer builds of Prime95 so you can do all 4 Cores in 1 app.

[hallryu]

I'm swapping my X48 board for one of these. Should arrive tomorrow. Looking forward to it!

[jlewis02]

Is there a hacked or modded bios for this board?
I seem to have hit a fsb wall at 495fsb stable will boot at 500 but will not make it into windows.
I have the 2202 bios in it at the moment and the other one is a 13 somthing version.
I have had my q9550 at 495x8.5 and 495x8 and it still stops at the same fsb everytime.