Asus Maximus Formula SE X38 - Living Review.

[SaintRonin]

:-) So are you just placing it down flat across the top of the RAM (parallel to the mobo), or are you positoning at one end and blowing air out to the other end (air flow parallel to the mobo moving through the "canyons" between the 4 chips?

If mounted parallel with the airflow perpendicular to the mobo, do you have the fan blowing down onto the RAM or away from the mobo? Blowing down will get better flow over the chips I would think, and I doubt they get hot enough to negatively impact the motherboard (by blowing hot air down onto it).

[Clunk]

Yep, the fan just needs to be flat against the RAM, or if its a bigger fan, maybe slightly further away to avoid a dead spot.

It neednt be complicated, it doesnt need to exactly straight, or at any particular angle. You'll find that pretty much however you do it, you will get a good breeze accross all the RAM

[jorgito05]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Depends how far you want to go with the overclocking.

For a lot of real life applications, you wont see much of a performance gain by running your RAM at 1200Mhz, although if its just for tweaking and benching, you can't really go wrong with Ballistix PC2-8500

I tell you as strage as it may sound, I think I'm gouing to stick with the;
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.

This should give me 400MHz actual; The XQ6850 CPU is rated at 1333 FSU 333 MHz actual, The specs on it are 1.0 -1.372 V., and I beleve at 1.372 I may be able to get 400MHz. I am afraid to push it, this baby cost me 1,024 USD.

What do you think ? Am I a chiken shit ?:

Oh Sorry, By the way, thanks for your prompt repply.

[jorgito05]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Elastic band through the holes in the fan, or a piece of string or cable tie etc and hook it onto the lugs that clip the RAM in place.

You can buy dedicated RAM coolers, but using a small fan is a cheap and effective way of doing it

Hi, sorry tu interupt, What is this G0 or G3 I keep seeing mentioned ?

[Angearu]

Originally Posted by Clunk

You got the correct voltages set for the RAM?

I was running them on 800mhz CL5, on 2.0V. I've ran the test again for 8-9 hours on stock speeds with 0 error's .

[fatty5000]

Well mine's in and running, it's a little quirky this board ain't it, I've updated the bios to the 0505 version but have'nt had time to start playing yet.
My ram voltage is set in bios at 2.2 but in the asus probe it show's 2.9 lol. I think a few of you had this problem as well, does anyone have a work around.
I found it a little strange in the way it boot's on/off/on but stock speed is good on unzipping which is about all I had time for last night.
Is it just me or is the asus site got a really 5hitty connection I couldn't get on there last night it kept telling me it was full!!!!!

[nick_000000]

Originally Posted by fatty5000

Well mine's in and running, it's a little quirky this board ain't it, I've updated the bios to the 0505 version but have'nt had time to start playing yet.
My ram voltage is set in bios at 2.2 but in the asus probe it show's 2.9 lol. I think a few of you had this problem as well, does anyone have a work around.
I found it a little strange in the way it boot's on/off/on but stock speed is good on unzipping which is about all I had time for last night.
Is it just me or is the asus site got a really 5hitty connection I couldn't get on there last night it kept telling me it was full!!!!!

Yeah the board can be a little funny, and yes the ASUS site is known for having 5hitty connections my friend was trying to download something last night and it kept loosing the connection.

I can't seem to get any PCIe x1 eSATA add in cards to work properly with this board it really annoys me that they didn't include a ESata connection

[fatty5000]

Originally Posted by nick_000000

Yeah the board can be a little funny, and yes the ASUS site is known for having 5hitty connections my friend was trying to download something last night and it kept loosing the connection.

I can't seem to get any PCIe x1 eSATA add in cards to work properly with this board it really annoys me that they didn't include a ESata connection

Yes the lack of esata ports is a bummer as i need one for when getting data off discs for people

Just dl'd the 0602 bios and it flew down seems like the asus site is better when the usa sleeps

[egandt]

0602 BIOS and USB devices, I installed the new BIOS yesterday, but why the system boots, it would not detect any of my USB devices (hung at detection), if I over-clocked the CPU (or just set it to manual). Switching back to 0505 fixed the problem right away, so I believe it was the BIOS that was at fault. Since it could not detect my USB devices I was unable to do more than go to BIOS with this version.

ERIC

[Scrubjohnm]

I flashed to the 0602 Bios last night. Have not had a single problem with It. Just flash and saved settings Booted right up.
This board has been real nice to me so far @ 3400 on air..

Power Supply: CORSAIR HX CMPSU-620HX 620W
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Formula SE
Video cards: EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
Memory:Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
CPU Cooler: ASUS V-60 92mm Vapo Bearing CPU Cooler
DVD Burner: LiteOn 20X DVD Burner
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
OS: XP