Asus Maximus Formula SE X38 - Living Review.

[nick_000000]

Originally Posted by Angearu

Np .. by the way I have a question, when I turn on my PC, it turns on then turns off automaticaly after 2-3 seconds, then 2-3 seconds later it turns on again and works, I guess this is a normal thing?

Yeah I get this as well, but only when I unplug the power supply or make a change to the BIOS settings.

[jorgito05]

Maximus Formula SE
The board has (2) PCIe x 16 (2.0) slots !
The card I want to use is ATI 2900XT, The cars is PCIe x 16 (not 2.0)
Will it fit and or work ?

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by jorgito05

Maximus Formula SE
The board has (2) PCIe x 16 (2.0) slots !
The card I want to use is ATI 2900XT, The cars is PCIe x 16 (not 2.0)
Will it fit and or work ?

Welcome to the forums

Yes, it will work fine.

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by Gillie

Just noticed theirs a new 0602 BIOS on the official Asus Forum.
(Sorry can't post URL as new user)
f*p://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/Maximus_Formula/MF0602.zip

Has anyone tried it?

I'll be trying it tonight

Originally Posted by Gillie

Well just bit the bullet and loaded up the new 0602 BIOS and after having the same memory problems that seem to be plagueing loads of other people I have immediately been able to boot with an 8x multiplier and a 450MHz FSB (on Q6600 G0 processor). I had been able to use these settings for about a week before things started to go wrong, then couldn't get system to boot with anything above 400Mhz FSB.

Next I need to try putting back in my other 2x 1GB modules (total of 4x 1GB).
Might wait a while before doing this as not wonderfully confident on this one and don't want a repeat of last few days issues.

I havent been able to boot with an 8x multi at most speeds, so if that is fixed, that will be great

Welcome to the forums

[kup]

Tried 0602...

On 0505 I can get 8x475 semi stable, meaning I can Fold/Prime for hours and then it suddenly flakes out and crashes, but on 0602 I couldn't even get into XP @ 8x470, after that I instantly gave up... just seemd to be a bad bios? Unless anyone else has any better experience with it?

It did however let me boot @ 4.3GHz on air and get right up to XP slash screen before it crashed! On 1.48v vCore!!!!!! :P

[nick_000000]

Originally Posted by jorgito05

Maximus Formula SE
The board has (2) PCIe x 16 (2.0) slots !
The card I want to use is ATI 2900XT, The cars is PCIe x 16 (not 2.0)
Will it fit and or work ?

Yeah it will work fine, it will work even better if you have 2 in crossfire PCIe 2.0 should be backward compatible with all PCIe 1.0 cards

[jorgito05]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Welcome to the forums

Yes, it will work fine.

Thank you verry much, you made my day; Also have been reading your posts, This thread from the very beggining, Most Impresive ! I got the bug now.

First build, Just now started buing all the components from newegg.com.
Intel QX6850, Kingston KHX6400D2ULK2/2G (2) (2x1G) Kits, Maximus Formula SE, (2) Western Digital Raptor X 150G
Thermaltake Toughpower WO156RU 1200W, (2) Diamond 2900XT1GPE, Case: Gigabite 3D Mercury Water Cooled Unit.

Question:

Haven't made final desition on the mem !

KHX6400D2ULK2/2G
JEDEC standard latency 800Mhz timing of 5-5-5-15 at 1.8V.
DDR2 800MHz at low latency timing of 3-3-3-10 at 2.3-2.35V.

KHX8500D2K2/2G
JEDEC standard latency 800Mhz timing of 5-5-5-15 at 1.8V.
DDR2- 1066MHz at a latency timing of 5-5-5-15 at 2.2V

KHX9600D2K2/2G
JEDEC standard latency 800Mhz timing of 5-5-5-15 at 1.8V
DDR2-1200MHz at a latency timing of 5-5-5-15 at 2.3 - 2.35V.

The last two are Not on the QVL ???????????????

[jorgito05]

Originally Posted by nick_000000

Yeah it will work fine, it will work even better if you have 2 in crossfire PCIe 2.0 should be backward compatible with all PCIe 1.0 cards

Thank you Verry much, You have been Healpful, I din't know what to think regarding my question

[jorgito05]

Clunk;

After seeing how you removed the stock heat sinks and water block, and poot your own block on the NB you gave me the itch, but this is my first build, so I will wc the stock block this go arround. Very impresive work you did.

PS got a pic of how you cooled th SB ?

[ginbong]

hello everyone, this is my first post.

i just got this mobo yesterday hoping to recieve the "standard" version but i was delivered the SE instead, which is not wat i wanted becoz i dont plan to *edit*WaterCool*edit*..

my case is a THERMALTAKE ARMOR ALUMINUM with 1x120mm intake fan, 1x200mm side panel fan, 1x120mm exhaust, 1x90mm exhaust and 1x90mm blowhole (above).

i am using a thermalright ultra 120-eXtreme with a scythe s-flex SFF21F fan for my CPU

now my question is will i be able to do a mild 20% OC on my Q6600 G0 to around 2.8GHz without overheating the NB with the copper waterblock?..

and i have no intention of taking off the heatpipes to install thermalright parts on the mobo ( i am not experienced with mobo modding, and never tried OCing before )

any help would be appreciated, thanks to anyone who replies

*edit* above: what i meant was i dont intend to WC, i put OC by mistake