Asus Maximus Formula SE X38 - Living Review.

[supershanks]

bit of an oversight in my view, especially considering the price.
Today 00:02

yes it is was talking to a guy over on extreme who wanted them, i hadn't really checked before. For me i'd manage with a couple less USB slots for 2xE-sata. + 1 point for Abit IX38 QuadGT, has 2.

[Clunk]

Added a load of BIOS shots.

[Rico]

Is 3.6 GHz the highest you can go on a Q6600 G0 step? If not, how high can you clock it (upping vcore to 1.5+?) to a point that it's stable? What is the vdroop like on that board?

[Clunk]

No mate, that was first boot after fitting the water cooling...I'm just seeing what is stable first before I start benching.

For some reason, nothing was stable with the B3, but I suspect that was the NB temps.

Welcome to the forums by the way

[Grimpy]

Clunk,having a few probs getting my oc stable.Was rock solid on my p5b deluxe with my E6600 at 3.4 but it fails within seconds when running orthos,any idea on what settings i need to alter here:

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by Grimpy

Clunk,having a few probs getting my oc stable.Was rock solid on my p5b deluxe with my E6600 at 3.4 but it fails within seconds when running orthos,any idea on what settings i need to alter here:

Right, well I've only just managed my first stable clock at 3.6Ghz - It is a completely different beast to the last few boards I've had, and needs some careful setting up. it may just be the current BIOS that is a bit flakey, but we will see.

To get stable last night, I put all these to the highest yellow value before they turned red.

• CPU PLL
• North Bridge Voltage
• FSB Termination Voltage
• South Bridge Voltage (You probably wont need to do this one, but I did it anyway to see)
• CPU GTL Reference - Highest setting (I'll go back over these to see what is needed)
• North Bridge GTL Reference - Same as above
• SB 1.5v Voltage

As I say, thats what I did to get stable, and also check your RAM, Asus Probe is shoing a hefty overvolt of just under 0.1v, and my CPU needs much more voltage than on the P5K Deluxe, but that might change.

[Grimpy]

Raised them abit and still no luck so i took 2 sticks of my memory out and now it won`t boot,i get this "CPU INIT" on the lcd poster which means "CPU INITIATION" according to the user guide.

[Clunk]

Hmmm, what happens if you take those sticks of RAM out and put the others in their place?

I remember when I had my commando, I kept getting that error when one of my sticks of RAM was dying.

[death]

mother of god nice board nice work m8 looking forward to seeing you push u quad

[purecain]

this x38 chipset definatly makes a good board....
i've been playing with my P5E bios. its interesting seeing what other peoples experimention with these two boards reveal.
on my P5E theres a sticker over the name maximus formula. i thought the layout looked similar. i bought the P5E because i thought it would perform equally as well, the maximus bios has the extra settings missing from the p5E.... so fine tuning the maximus will give you a few more mhz.
i'll update with any bios setting info i find out..... lets see how far these boards can go....