MaximusIV-Extreme Thread

[Asmola]

What you guys think, should i buy MIVE or should i wait Z68-based high-end mobo?

Got great deal from MIVE and still have B2-version P8P67 Deluxe so it will be easy chance.. or not?

[st0ned]

What you guys think, should i buy MIVE or should i wait Z68-based high-end mobo?

Got great deal from MIVE and still have B2-version P8P67 Deluxe so it will be easy chance.. or not?

I woulg go for M4E, there's nothing out there showing OC improvements with z68, and that's what this forum is all about right

[fab-45]

YoooH > my choise for my setup, but me novice . . .

CPU SPREAD SPECTRUM > disabled

Vcore PWM mode > Extreme

internal PLL overvoltage > enable

and C3 + C6 > disabled

[Asmola]

I woulg go for M4E, there's nothing out there showing OC improvements with z68, and that's what this forum is all about right

With Sandy Bridge Overclocking is the main thing! Perhaps i'm going to take that MIVE, at last i can use my Hypers with SB.

[st0ned]

With Sandy Bridge Overclocking is the main thing! Perhaps i'm going to take that MIVE, at last i can use my Hypers with SB.

I think PSC would be the real deal, but I think since latest BIOSs M4E it has been ok with hypers

[quake6]

I think PSC would be the real deal, but I think since latest BIOSs M4E it has been ok with hypers

No, new bios didn't helped a lot... You need a killer hypers to run it on 21.33 multi. The new best thing is g. skill ripjaws x 2133mhz 8-9-8 so I would recommend them instead hypers

[Asmola]

No, new bios didn't helped a lot... You need a killer hypers to run it on 21.33 multi. The new best thing is g. skill ripjaws x 2133mhz 8-9-8 so I would recommend them instead hypers

I currently have Corsair Dominator GT's (v2.1) and G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600 CL6 which does stable 2133MHz 7-10-7-27 1T 1.65v, maxed 7-10-7-25 ~2270MHz 32m stable.

I hope my Dom's can do 2133 7-7-7-2x 1T with MIVE, but i might hope too much..

[quake6]

Dominator gt 2000 c8? I had two kits, one of them could run 2260MHz c8 with 1.65v, but both of them couldn't run 2133mhz on 9-9-9. GTX2 have no problems, running 2133MHz 7-7-6 @ 1.65v.

[Asmola]

Dominator gt 2000 c8? I had two kits, one of them could run 2260MHz c8 with 1.65v, but both of them couldn't run 2133mhz on 9-9-9. GTX2 have no problems, running 2133MHz 7-7-6 @ 1.65v.

Yep, same kit. So i might keep my current Ripjaws X kit also.. i have to hunt GTX2's from somewhere.

[Silver Bullet]

Funny Problem,

If I use updated Intel drivers I get freezing when I use Internet Explorer ect.
Tried this 3 times with fresh Windows 7 64bit.
If I install from Asus disk no problems.

No Microsoft Updates were applied.

This is were it gets funny, I'm running triple sli & when i install windows explorer 9 I get higher video card temps hitting over 60c just browsing the net. I have no clue why this is going on but if I leave explorer 8 installed my temps are around 40c.

1. Make sure you're on 1204 or 1485 bios
2. Install the Intel INF 9.2.x.x
3. Install the Intel RST 10.5.x.x

This took away all the freezing issues for me, but I did have to move my dvd drive to the marvell controller.

[Lu(ky]

I currently have Corsair Dominator GT's (v2.1) and G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600 CL6 which does stable 2133MHz 7-10-7-27 1T 1.65v, maxed 7-10-7-25 ~2270MHz 32m stable.

I hope my Dom's can do 2133 7-7-7-2x 1T with MIVE, but i might hope too much..

Well I have the same Dominators as well and on my Asus P67 Del I could not go over 2000MHz bdos like crazy for some reason with that board. I settled with a 1866 with a cas 8 on that board tell I picked up some G SKill 2133MHz cas 7 sticks.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

both sets of my Dominator GT 2000 c8, and a set of STT 2200c8 both did not work well with any of my P67 boards, but the GSkill Ripjaw X 2133 8-9-8 kit is killer on sandy bridge. I have been wondering what the higher bin is on the GSkill Ripjaw X line, there is two 2133 kits one 7-10-7 and the other 8-9-8 with the latter being priced about $10 higher and on the 2200 kits there is a 7-10-10 and a 9-9-9 kit with the later being priced higher as well. The cas 7 kits are black while the cas8/9 kits are blue, other than that I have no idea what the better kit is.

On the GSkill website they have a 2300 kit that is rated at 7-10-10 as well which makes me think that the c7 sticks are the higher bin even though they are cheaper than the c8/9 sticks, but I really have no idea as they both seem to clock pretty similar

[Leeghoofd]

Well I have the same Dominators as well and on my Asus P67 Del I could not go over 2000MHz bdos like crazy for some reason with that board. I settled with a 1866 with a cas 8 on that board tell I picked up some G SKill 2133MHz cas 7 sticks.

Bios code seems not optimised on the ahum lower end boards with Hypers... Everything works fine with the ES CPU, put in a retail on eg the Dlx and it goes nuts over 1900ish... this with Hypers... M4E works fine with enough ram voltage ( 1.75ish ) and a good Hyper ram kit

Really hopes Asus steps away and supports all boards with the appropriate bios code...

Dominator gt 2000 c8? I had two kits, one of them could run 2260MHz c8 with 1.65v, but both of them couldn't run 2133mhz on 9-9-9. GTX2 have no problems, running 2133MHz 7-7-6 @ 1.65v.

Is that superpi 32M stable at just 1.65Vdimm ? I can rock 3D easy peasy, but at Superpi 1m it freezes... I'm needing over 1.72 to get even remotely stable...

[Dumo]

Ripj X 2133/8-9-8 on my MIVE 2200+ 6-9-6-24 Vdimm 1.82 and Vcsa 1.1ish

Haven't test Ripj X 2200/9-9-9 yet.

[TheHardCase]

1. Make sure you're on 1204 or 1485 bios
2. Install the Intel INF 9.2.x.x
3. Install the Intel RST 10.5.x.x

This took away all the freezing issues for me, but I did have to move my dvd drive to the marvell controller.

Silver I have Intel's raid using 3 x mushkin 60GB & blu-ray on 3gbs controller, along with 2 x mushkin using Intel's 6gbs raid controller.
So I guess I'll move from Intel's 6gbs to marvell?

[quake6]

Is that superpi 32M stable at just 1.65Vdimm ? I can rock 3D easy peasy, but at Superpi 1m it freezes... I'm needing over 1.72 to get even remotely stable...

Yes, 32M stable. But when I want to go over 2133MHz with no matter what latency, suddenly it becomes voltage hungry

[newhit]

Hi to one and all,
I've just got a MIVE and have played around with the *MANY* settings but I cannot fathom out certain parameters. I need further help with things like the "Skew" settings, Digi+VRM/POWER and Turbo power settings. I have been through the ASUS guide on here and on "Hard forum" and checked the pages of this thread. I've checked the Asus website also.

Really annoying.

Can someone point me to the info on these mysteries.

[Raja@ASUS]

Hi to one and all,
I've just got a MIVE and have played around with the *MANY* settings but I cannot fathom out certain parameters. I need further help with things like the "Skew" settings, Digi+VRM/POWER and Turbo power settings. I have been through the ASUS guide on here and on "Hard forum" and checked the pages of this thread. I've checked the Asus website also.

Really annoying.

Can someone point me to the info on these mysteries.

I'm putting something together to answer some of these questions, will take a few days, though.

-Raja

[Splave]

Hi to one and all,
I've just got a MIVE and have played around with the *MANY* settings but I cannot fathom out certain parameters. I need further help with things like the "Skew" settings, Digi+VRM/POWER and Turbo power settings. I have been through the ASUS guide on here and on "Hard forum" and checked the pages of this thread. I've checked the Asus website also.

Really annoying.

Can someone point me to the info on these mysteries.

IMO best bet is to load the extreme OC profile then work from there Messing with those options all day will not turn a bad chip into a great one though.

[newhit]

IMO best bet is to load the extreme OC profile then work from there Messing with those options all day will not turn a bad chip into a great one though.

Thanx for the replies.

That's the bottom line I suppose (A wall is a wall is a wall) but it would be good to know what to do with them. Looking forward to the write-up "Raja@ASUS"

[TheHardCase]

So whats up with Intel's 6gbs contoller?
Looks like my freezing has stopped when there is nothing on controller.
I removed both ssd drives & bam system runs like a top.
Why in older bios do they have control to reduce speed from 6Gbs down to 3Gbs?
Or is it because Intel really never fixed the problem? or just a cheap controller?
Or Asus can't control because of EFI bios?

I find this BS because I pay for something & everything should work.
I need this controller working 100% Asus or Intel fix the problem.

[Praz]

I need this controller working 100% Asus or Intel fix the problem.

What is hot-swapping set to? Whichever way it is now set it to the other option for the affected ports. This is the only time I see stuttering from the drives. For my drives the ports need to be set to "Enabled".

[faulkton]

all the fan headers on the m4e are 4 pin pwm...

Can cpu temp be used to control rpm on all the headers or just the header labeled for the CPU?

[Raja@ASUS]

all the fan headers on the m4e are 4 pin pwm...

Can cpu temp be used to control rpm on all the headers or just the header labeled for the CPU?

No, the CPU temp controls the CPU fan header only AFAIK. However, some of the other headers can be setup to change speed via the supplied thermal probes.

[st0ned]

I've been having some random BSOD's and all of them were while writting or reading from my raid ( that is connected to de SATA 2 ports ). I went to bios and bumped PCH and PCH PLL volts, and I've stop the BSOD's at least for the last 5 days. I think that this might be my B2 giving up

I google the BSOD's and they weren't OC related ( they also didn't show in the normal OC BSOD's as 101 124 , etc... ) for what I've found they were memory write reading ore something like that error.

Any words in what were the simptoms for bad B2 chipset ?