ASUS MAXIMUS III Formula Review

Greebo · 5 Oct 2009 at 13:31

Stormar said:
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..

Look forward to seeing your new system in the new year then

reygjabla · 5 Oct 2009 at 21:46

Pers; 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!

Any direct link on this? cheers

Pers · 6 Oct 2009 at 09:26

reygjabla said:
Any direct link on this? cheers

Here you go mate, http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/v7300a.zip.

It installs an audio panel I didn't get with version 6 from the Asus site. You can then set default for spdif via the panel and it works.

Stormar · 6 Oct 2009 at 14:56

Greebo said:
Look forward to seeing your new system in the new year then

lol yer well i can hope

but i just stick in the gtx285 till it comes out,i can,t wait that long cod 6 is out real soon

reygjabla · 6 Oct 2009 at 19:45

Pers said:
Here you go mate, http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/v7300a.zip.

It installs an audio panel I didn't get with version 6 from the Asus site. You can then set default for spdif via the panel and it works.

Thanks Mate.

fizzle-187 · 7 Oct 2009 at 01:43

Stormar said:
lol yer well i can hopebut i just stick in the gtx285 till it comes out,i can,t wait that long cod 6 is out real soon

I think You'll be running the same system as me!!

Asus Maximus III
i7 860
Geil Ultra Ram 4GB
GTX 285

Hopefully, I'll be getting my H50 cooler soon as well!

Stormar · 7 Oct 2009 at 16:47

same as me 2 other than the ram

fizzle-187 · 7 Oct 2009 at 17:41

You'll be very happy with it I'm sure.

kitfit1 · 7 Oct 2009 at 17:41

sacha35 said:

Great review and great clocks Paul.

Got a question though, why do you think that 1m Pi run is as slow as that, given the cpu and ram speed are as fast as they are ? I know the O/S is untweaked, but i would have thought it should be at least sub 8s.

sacha35 · 7 Oct 2009 at 19:52

kitfit1 said:
Great review and great clocks Paul.

Got a question though, why do you think that 1m Pi run is as slow as that, given the cpu and ram speed are as fast as they are ? I know the O/S is untweaked, but i would have thought it should be at least sub 8s.

It is slow due to the striped O/S i had on it at the time, XP light is no good for anything outher than loading load and boot fast, also the ram was quite slow as it can easy do 2300 cas8

You will see by my 32m run this is a full xp sp3 run that has been tweaked.

Zenduri · 8 Oct 2009 at 02:17

ouch sacha 1.6v! Does the 870 like that or is that just for benching tests?

sacha35 · 8 Oct 2009 at 05:54

HybridX said:
ouch sacha 1.6v! Does the 870 like that or is that just for benching tests?

Only for bench test and being around -90c for this as well, don't take your chips this high on air or it won't be good, I would say for air keep to around 1.35v.

fizzle-187 · 9 Oct 2009 at 21:57

Hi, sacha have you completed your tests yet?

I'm patiently waiting for your help

ShaolinDreams · 10 Oct 2009 at 07:02

Shes has the looks and the brains. I've been seduced

Definite contender for my new build :cool:

brett8899 · 10 Oct 2009 at 19:12

I join too. get this ultimate mobo. cool

reygjabla · 16 Oct 2009 at 12:37

Any update sacha35? :rolleyes:

sacha35 · 12 Dec 2009 at 10:31

Hi Guys sorry about the late reply, if you take a look at this review http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18085551 it has a lot of what you need to do regarding getting good overclocks, it is posted in the overclocked bios section which you will be able to copy a lot f the setting and use on this board too as the bios is almost the same.

sacha35 · 8 Jan 2010 at 22:15

Heads up for extreme overclockers using the ASUS Maximus III Formula with the Clarksdale CPU's.

There seems to be some incompatibility in the TurboV software when overclocking, when pushing Blcock the system will lock and change registers for VTT, PLL, and Dram.
Am not sure if this problem is apparent for normal usage/air or water overclocking, but for extreme use please note that you could run into problems with your CPU's when using the turboV software to raise the Bclock.

See picture below that clearly shows the registers changed from a setting of 1.35VTT and 1.7VPLL to 1.1VTT and 2.5PLL, when pushing Bclock, which will without any doubt will have a detrimental effect on your CPU.

I have been told that ASUS are working on a fix for this problem but in the mean time please be aware that using the old TurboV software could be detrimental to your CPU when pushing Bclock.