Official ASUS MAXIMUS FORMULA thread

kevpuk · 12 Oct 2007 at 18:01

OK, so as one of the early-adopters :eek:

of this board, and assuming there will be other like minded souls out there.....here is the Official Thread

So far not much to put here......but no doubt there will be

As for me, well my Maximus is all installed but I am having GFX problems carried over from my P5WDH.....so hardly getting use out of the Maximus yet...watch this space !

pastymuncher · 12 Oct 2007 at 19:09

Are you using the watercooled NB cooler or just using it as air cooled?

J1nxy · 12 Oct 2007 at 19:12

I'm using the water block as the NB was getting stupidly hot on just air. I'm also fighting to get a stable OC on it.

kevpuk · 12 Oct 2007 at 19:26

I am on air too (Scythe Ninja+) ..... I see the water block as a great upgrade incentive.....

cuke2u · 12 Oct 2007 at 20:36

Hi, on air too, see my sig for other stuff, ram is running dandy at 1066 according to the bios, although CPU-Z says it is slightly overclocked at 1069.1
ChrisC

cuke2u · 12 Oct 2007 at 21:07

Hi, just ran 3dmark06, things get a little 'toasty' in there with MB temps easliy hitting 55c...
ChrisC

andyr · 12 Oct 2007 at 21:45

Hi , up and running

nice so far no problems yet , running nb on water, booted using raid 0 from my P5K Premium and previous my P5K Deluxe so its a 3rd hand array

Deluxe1 · 12 Oct 2007 at 23:19

Whats everyones NB temps?

J1nxy · 12 Oct 2007 at 23:38

Pre water over 60 post water <50 and the air cooled has a 250mm fan pointed at it.

Deluxe1 · 12 Oct 2007 at 23:46

Guess my 48 on air isnt that bad then.

J1nxy · 12 Oct 2007 at 23:51

Sorry those temps were full load not idol and overclocked using the crazy defaults. Should have said that.

Mr Footlong · 13 Oct 2007 at 09:08

Guys what size are the barbs on the northbridge? Did a wangle at work and am sitting here waiting for our supposedly large distributor to get them in still...........

w3bbo · 13 Oct 2007 at 09:34

3/8. The board comes with all the connectors necessary to adapt to your current loop be it 1/4 or 1/2.

Mr Footlong · 13 Oct 2007 at 10:07

Shame, but I could see that it wouldn't be 1/2

. From what you can see inside the block does it look restrictive?

cuke2u · 13 Oct 2007 at 11:27

Hi, thinking of watercooling this beast, any suggestions for a someone who hasn't had any experience of this? Linkies to review would help too. Although my current motherboard idle temps are 39c without any OC'ing, not too bad I guess but I want at least 3.4ghz out of this..
ChrisC

cuke2u · 13 Oct 2007 at 11:36

Hi again, can I also ask which bios version you're all running, I've the one that came with the board, 0401....
ChrisC

J1nxy · 13 Oct 2007 at 11:59

I tried the 0504 bios and that kept hanging at post if you started to bump the FSB. The 0401 seems pretty good I can boot at 3.8 just can't get stable...

pastymuncher · 13 Oct 2007 at 20:42

Anybody got a decent clock out of one of these yet? What's the inside of the NB block look like?

sammie377 · 13 Oct 2007 at 21:36

Do they come with 3DMark® 06 Advanced Edition and Kaspersky® Anti-Virus?
As well as Stalker or is a choice of which?
Thanks.

andyr · 13 Oct 2007 at 22:41

sammie377 said:
Do they come with 3DMark® 06 Advanced Edition and Kaspersky® Anti-Virus?
As well as Stalker or is a choice of which?
Thanks.

Yes you get all of those , i have flashed to 0504 and running prime stable at 3.3Gig on my B3 q6600 , cpu showing 50 degrees , nb showing 47 under load at 1.6v, going up bit at a time and testing ect ,, found it more difficult than the p5k del and the premium up to now but it seems better in prime

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