Asus Maximus Formula SE X38 - Living Review.

[fatty5000]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Excellent

What revision is your board?

Which is better iirc mine's 1.02

[fatty5000]

I'm encoding movies in just over 20 mins. This is awesome 1 3/4 hrs before

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by Gillie

Just about ran out of patience with this motherboard (Maximum SE).

Straight out the box it ran for a week with no problems at all (0502 BIOS) with 4x 1GB sticks of Crucial Ballistix 6400 RAM (4-4-4-12), Q6600 G0 (3.6GHz, 8*450Mhz), etc. Then last weekend I reboot PC and it just stops at the DRAM POST check. Only way I can get it running again is with a single 1GB stick and a full CMOS clear. I get back up and running and then the system lets me boot with 2x 1GB stickss (but still not all 4). Everything fine for the last 3 days then bang, system restart, stuck at DRAM test. I clear the CMOS, go back to 1x stick of RAM and I'm back up and running again except now it won't let me install the 2nd stick of RAM so I've only got 1GB total (and 3GB sat on my desk). 0602 BIOS makes no difference at all.

I know people keep saying that Asus will eventually sort out a decent BIOS which might solve these problems but I really want this resolved now.

Has anyone got any real advice - apart from RMA'ing the board that is.

Has anyone RMA'ed their board and bought a different X38 board.

So, do all of the sticks work on their own? Sounds all too familiar that

I was a bit disappointed with the 0602 BIOS, the only thing that changed for me was being able to use the 8x multi, but that wasnt stable

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by Gillie

Clunk - What did you mean by a "loooooong CMOS clear" ??

Click the troubleshooting link in my sig, there are suggestions on how to do it there

Originally Posted by fatty5000

Which is better iirc mine's 1.02

Mines 1.02 as well. Odd how mine is stuck at 480FSB though with the 8x multi.

[fatty5000]

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It gets better lol

[fatty5000]

Is it really running that fast ???

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by fatty5000

Is it really running that fast ???

Yep

[fatty5000]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Yep

But I havn't done anything just fsb up, spread spectrums off, usb legacy off and 4-4-4-4-12 timings ,core temps 55-59
How do these temps sound to you good/bad???

[fatty5000]

So my memeory is running at it's stock speed now. So if I go higher I'm oc'ing it ????

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by fatty5000

But I havn't done anything just fsb up, spread spectrums off, usb legacy off and 4-4-4-4-12 timings ,core temps 55-59
How do these temps sound to you good/bad???

Dunno about the temps, is it a B3? or is your Vcore on auto?

Originally Posted by fatty5000

So my memeory is running at it's stock speed now. So if I go higher I'm oc'ing it ????

If it's PC2-6400, yep, its running at its stock speeds and anything else will be an overclock.

You need to make sure it is stable at these speeds before you go any higher