Asus Maximus Formula BIOS

Pneumonic · 28 Dec 2007 at 15:03

Ok overclocking the brothers new PC tonight and need some input as the the "best" BIOS to use... had a rumage about and looks like 0903 is the one to use but am welcome to suggestions

Shads · 28 Dec 2007 at 15:39

Just a heads up i see this on Extreme You want the 1303 bios, do not, I repeat, do NOT use the 1305 bios dont know why you cant use 1305 tho :confused:

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But there is a lot of info on Extreme about that board.

hope it helps

Pneumonic · 28 Dec 2007 at 16:26

ty I will try 1303 tonight

CyZMyAssBaby · 28 Dec 2007 at 16:33

Pneumonic m8

Bios 901. 903 appear to be the flavour

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17789878&page=18

Shads said:
Just a heads up i see this on Extreme You want the 1303 bios, do not, I repeat, do NOT use the 1305 bios dont know why you cant use 1305 tho .
But there is a lot of info on Extreme about that board.hope it helps

Shads the above Bios's you mention they are relating to the Asus Striker Extreme? and not the Asus Maximus? Pneumonic is referring to.

Pneumonic · 28 Dec 2007 at 16:37

well ill start with 0901 if its rubbish ill go up to 0903, 1303, pretty sure I cant start higher and come down

His Q6600 has a really low VID only: 1.2000 according to coretemp so wait and see what it does

CyZMyAssBaby · 28 Dec 2007 at 16:41

Ok soz i didn't know maximus had a Bios 1303/ 1305 from info on thread Maximus Bios appears to be listed as 09XX

I am aware Striker Extreme (680i) has Bios 1303/ 1305

Or am i missing something :confused:

Pneumonic · 28 Dec 2007 at 16:44

ah maybe he got confused? will start with 0901 and see what happens

CyZMyAssBaby · 28 Dec 2007 at 17:26

Pneumonic said:
ah maybe he got confused? will start with 0901 and see what happens

Excellent stuff keep the updates coming m8

Shads · 28 Dec 2007 at 17:54

Yes sorry think i was getting muddled up as i was looking at the other board for someone els :mad:

sorry

weescott · 28 Dec 2007 at 18:08

901 was best for me.

Pneumonic · 28 Dec 2007 at 21:44

thanks weescott.. 0903 seems good got to 3.6 at just over 1.4 vcore

is a lovely chip... might have to put some bigger fans on his heatsink see what it can really do

CyZMyAssBaby · 28 Dec 2007 at 22:01

weescott out of interest was 901 more suitable to phase than 0903 due to load line calibration or for other reasons

marscay · 29 Dec 2007 at 00:26

i've found 0901/0903/0907 all performing pretty equal on my hardware.

initially had some problems with 0907 but it just took a little tweaking and it's probably the pick for me right now.

doubt you will go wrong with any - take a lucky dip

weescott · 29 Dec 2007 at 08:43

901 allowed slightly a higher stable FSB (about 5mhz ish). From 903 I started to have issues. But I was really pushing the board (max voltages) with about 4 or 5 different chips for a couple of weeks. So maybe the board just had enough of me. Formula Extreme / X48 / Other, in a few weeks time.

CyZMyAssBaby · 29 Dec 2007 at 10:57

weescott said:
Formula Extreme / X48 / Other, in a few weeks time.

Nice. I would be particularly interested in your feed back with the x48 board as i am intending to order a x48 board very shortly (Asus P5E3 Premium)

marscay · 29 Dec 2007 at 15:45

weescott said:
901 allowed slightly a higher stable FSB (about 5mhz ish). From 903 I started to have issues. But I was really pushing the board (max voltages) with about 4 or 5 different chips for a couple of weeks. So maybe the board just had enough of me. Formula Extreme / X48 / Other, in a few weeks time.

you killed your maximus?

shoddy workmanship if it can't handle over 5ghz 24/7 eh

DEFEST · 29 Dec 2007 at 16:11

I updated to 0903 today and now AI Suite will not work

First it crashed, so i unistalled it, intalled it again, and now i get an "Eaccess Violation" error.

Other than that it seems stable so far but hey, i'm not overclocking much at the moment ( bit wet behind the ears).