ASUS MAXIMUS III Formula Review

sacha35 · 28 Sep 2009 at 07:40

fizzle-187 said:
Seriously? Is that all I have to do? Just shut down the system, open the plate up and click the OC button on the motherboard?

If so it's simplicity! and AWESOME!!!!

But, I would want to do it manually so I can LEARN and clock it higher to 4GHZ.

If any of you guys want to know anything about this motherboard or how to go about overclocking it then please post and I will gladly help, the board is so easy to overclock anyway and will not be hard to hit 4Gig with air cooling, there are a few profiles within the bios and windows software that will give you stable overclocks instantly with a click of the button, but I always find the best settings comes from a few tweaks within the bios so as said anyone wanting help just post and I will do my best to help out.

Pers · 28 Sep 2009 at 11:20

Just ordered the Asus Maximus this morning with an i7 860 and 4gb of the Gskill Ripjaws 2000mhz ddr3. I won't see it till thursday being over in Spain but damn I'm excited. I also have a Noctua cooler on the way. So I hope to post some results once I get cracking.

Cheers Sacha35 for your review which sealed the decision for me

reygjabla · 28 Sep 2009 at 12:19

sacha35 said:
If any of you guys want to know anything about this motherboard or how to go about overclocking it then please post and I will gladly help, the board is so easy to overclock anyway and will not be hard to hit 4Gig with air cooling, there are a few profiles within the bios and windows software that will give you stable overclocks instantly with a click of the button, but I always find the best settings comes from a few tweaks within the bios so as said anyone wanting help just post and I will do my best to help out.

How about the Asus Rampage II extreme sacha35? Any chance you can give us a hint on how to have a stable 4.0 / 4.2 OC on air? There's a lot of parameters in the bios which seems no one dared touch yet but which I believe could provide a much more effecient OC in terms of voltage/performance troughput.

fizzle-187 · 28 Sep 2009 at 13:39

sacha35 said:
If any of you guys want to know anything about this motherboard or how to go about overclocking it then please post and I will gladly help, the board is so easy to overclock anyway and will not be hard to hit 4Gig with air cooling, there are a few profiles within the bios and windows software that will give you stable overclocks instantly with a click of the button, but I always find the best settings comes from a few tweaks within the bios so as said anyone wanting help just post and I will do my best to help out.

Yes, I was going to message you on how to overclock whilst using this motherboard. With your support I may be able to gain knowledge and fulfill my needs to overclocking with stability.

I'm currently on stock cooler using the i7 860 with Geil Ultra 4GB ram. I'm new to overclocking so any help or advice will be appreciated.

sacha35 · 28 Sep 2009 at 15:30

reygjabla said:
How about the Asus Rampage II extreme sacha35? Any change you can give us a hint on how to have a stable 4.0 / 4.2 OC on air? There's a lot of parameters in the bios which seems no one dared touch yet but which I believe could provide a much more effecient OC in terms of voltage/performance troughput.

fizzle-187 said:
Yes, I was going to message you on how to overclock whilst using this motherboard. With your support I may be able to gain knowledge and fulfill my needs to overclocking with stability.

I'm currently on stock cooler using the i7 860 with Geil Ultra 4GB ram. I'm new to overclocking so any help or advice will be appreciated.

Give me a few days to put something together, if you want anything pacific please post and I will add it in with some overclock settings.

fizzle-187 · 28 Sep 2009 at 16:26

Thank you Sacha, you've been a great member which I'm gaining knowledge and support because of you. I got my setup down to your review mostly, which I'm very impressed.

Asus Maximus Formula III
I7 860 @ stock
4GB Geil Ultra series

Hopefully, you do something with this to clock it to 4GHZ or beyond! I'm scared to overclock as I don't want to damage it, as it's going to be my first time and I'm completely CLUELESS at this!

xGaffner · 28 Sep 2009 at 16:51

fizzle-187 said:
Thank you Sacha, you've been a great member which I'm gaining knowledge and support because of you. I got my setup down to your review mostly, which I'm very impressed.

Asus Maximus Formula III
I7 860 @ stock
4GB Geil Ultra series

Hopefully, you do something with this to clock it to 4GHZ or beyond! I'm scared to overclock as I don't want to damage it, as it's going to be my first time and I'm completely CLUELESS at this!

I HIGHLY recommend getting a better cooler first before you do so. You won't even get close to 4GHZ without a decent one. I recommend getting the Corsair H50.

fizzle-187 · 28 Sep 2009 at 17:07

xGaffner said:
I HIGHLY recommend getting a better cooler first before you do so. You won't even get close to 4GHZ without a decent one. I recommend getting the Corsair H50.

There's no bracket to that cooler yet and I can't be asked to wait for that.

reygjabla · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:05

sacha35 said:
Give me a few days to put something together, if you want anything pacific please post and I will add it in with some overclock settings.

Asus Rampage II Extreme
I7 920 DO
OCZ Gold 12GB (6X2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Push/Pull)
Asus GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3
Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 1000W ATX2.2
Antec 1200

A stable and cooler 4.0/4.2 voltage/parameter settings would be appreciated very much. Thanks in advance.

fizzle-187 · 28 Sep 2009 at 19:58

Asus Maximus Formula III
Intel i7 860
Geil ultra series 4GB
BFG GTX 285 OCX
Coolermaster HAF 932
Corsair HX750

Could you put something together for me to clock 4/4.2 GHZ?

ANd yes I will buy a cooler but I need one recommended for the job.

Stormar · 28 Sep 2009 at 22:35

the bracket for the 1156 socket comes out on the 28th sept its not to wait.

fizzle-187 · 29 Sep 2009 at 16:35

Oh ok

reygjabla · 1 Oct 2009 at 05:22

Hi sacha35!

Any news yet? :rolleyes:

sacha35 · 1 Oct 2009 at 08:05

reygjabla said:
Hi sacha35!

Any news yet?

Just a few more days please as I have lots of testing to do on other items, I will get this info posted for you all though as soon as I can.

Stormar · 1 Oct 2009 at 12:56

quick up date the bracket for the h50 comes out on the 12th oct offical from corsair with a new revison part number will be CWCH50-1 so make sure if you order it it is this 1..

Zenduri · 3 Oct 2009 at 14:43

im interested how the 860 performs on the MAxmimus III, Ive seen people hittingf 4-4.5 on airand water on the MSI GD80 and if the MAximus Performs well with the 860 ill chip in another £20 extra and get it (plus its black and red which makes it pretty!)

Stormar · 3 Oct 2009 at 14:49

the 860 is a good chip for oc, with this board should make it easyer for you 2 and get you started to hitting the 4ghz mark atleast

Shakeel · 3 Oct 2009 at 17:05

nice review mate!

Pers · 5 Oct 2009 at 10:17

I finally got to put my system together saturday. This motherboard is the best I've ever experienced and everything worked first time. The only problem I had was with the spdif connection from the Supreme FX to my GTX 260. I was getting no sound via hdmi to my telly.

I managed to fix that last night so just incase anyone else has the same problem here is the fix. The via driver on the Asus site (version 6) doesn't allow spdif sound. If you get the version 7 driver via Viatech's site it works!

I haven't overclocked anything as yet to allow things to bed in thermal wise. Temperatures with the Noctua cooler seem very good at stock.

Stormar · 5 Oct 2009 at 13:03

i,m looking forward to getting this board with the oc controller for me new build in a few weeks,getting itchy fingers now on the buy it now,just wish nvidia would releease the gtx300 soon thats all i,m waiting on is a date..