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although asus probe may not be great im sure it shouldnt do this to my voltages..anyone else seen it report wall voltages as 4.08 after a period of time.
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I flashed to 0903 last week and have been getting the same dodgy readings,not all the time its abit hit n miss really.

Sometimes it`ll be the correct readings othertimes the 4.08`s.
 
Deluxe1 said:
I flashed to 0903 last week and have been getting the same dodgy readings,not all the time its abit hit n miss really.

Sometimes it`ll be the correct readings othertimes the 4.08`s.
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thanks..im glad im not the only one...wonder wether the issue is fixed on 907...im get all sorts of problems with sensor readings..have had to disable overheat protection or the pc just reboots.
 
I currently have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard but I'm looking for a new board as I've had several problems with my current one (the Firewire ports don't work and it's unstable when overclocking my E6600 as it resets itself after a couple of weeks).

Is the Maximus Formula a good solid board?

Anyone who has upgraded from a P5W DH to the Maximus Formula, have you tried using the wifi from the P5W? Does it work?

Thanks
 
Yeah I agree. The biggest waste of £150 i've ever spent. Now just need to wait for Overclockers to get the maximus formula back in stock!
 
gazfocus said:
Yeah I agree. The biggest waste of £150 i've ever spent. Now just need to wait for Overclockers to get the maximus formula back in stock!
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For me the motherboard chipset temps are causing an issue to being able to run quietly and cooly. I think it wil be fixed by the addition of a middle quietish case intake fan, but the x38 seems to chuck out a lot of heat (30 degrees + over normal running cpu in games). I thought a premium case like the antec p182 would handle it fine, but for me cooling it is an issue. if you want all your case/gpu fans on low and a modest overclock then perhaps a p35 would be better. that said I will update once i get some more case fans..it might simply be an airflow issue..but theres no denying that prime95 runs the x38 at 60 degrees plus. that said with the case lid off i did get to 3.6Ghz 8 Hrs stable on q6600 - so if noise is not an issue its overclocks well.
 
ginjaninja said:
For me the motherboard chipset temps are causing an issue to being able to run quietly and cooly. I think it wil be fixed by the addition of a middle quietish case intake fan, but the x38 seems to chuck out a lot of heat (30 degrees + over normal running cpu in games). I thought a premium case like the antec p182 would handle it fine, but for me cooling it is an issue. if you want all your case/gpu fans on low and a modest overclock then perhaps a p35 would be better. that said I will update once i get some more case fans..it might simply be an airflow issue..but theres no denying that prime95 runs the x38 at 60 degrees plus. that said with the case lid off i did get to 3.6Ghz 8 Hrs stable on q6600 - so if noise is not an issue its overclocks well.
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Hi, my probe voltage settings and temps:

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Chris
 
Hi again, no idle, but they don't go above 43c anyway. I'm running 400 x 9 but having looked at your temps I wouldn't have thought thay weren't too bad. With my first water cooling system my cpu easily hit 85c when I tried overclocking it to 3.6ghz. After removing the nb/sb and re-applying AS5 to the blocks, then removing one gfx card, my CPU now peaks at 65c when under load. I've also posted up a reply in your post under overclocking & cooling. I would have thought that 1.16 for a q6600 is far too low
Chris
 
chriscatt said:
Hi again, no idle, but they don't go above 43c anyway. I'm running 400 x 9 but having looked at your temps I wouldn't have thought thay weren't too bad. With my first water cooling system my cpu easily hit 85c when I tried overclocking it to 3.6ghz. After removing the nb/sb and re-applying AS5 to the blocks, then removing one gfx card, my CPU now peaks at 65c when under load. I've also posted up a reply in your post under overclocking & cooling. I would have thought that 1.16 for a q6600 is far too low
Chris
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im rock solid @ 1.16 (ive posted my 8hr prime 95 stable small ffts in the quad database)..do you have any good instructions/advice for removing the motherboard heatsinks and reapplying..i will do this at the same time as lapping the tru / q6600.
 
thought id share some further experience with temps and voltages. For me I found that reducing the CPU PLL, NB and FSBT not only siginificantly reduces MB, NB and SB temps but also is very quick to find the break point. for me they seem fairly independant (regards boot stability) and they their optimums were quick to find (it either started windows or it didnt..if windows started prime was stable..

So if like me you had set your voltages on auto or as per other posts, I would suggest you look at the voltages in the bios/power section (if currently on auto like i was) and then start downing cpu pll until it wont boot then raise by a notch. and do that for nb amd fsbt. FSBT i was able to reduce from 1.5+ to 1.26 and now my temps are 15 degrees plus lower.

take with a pinch of salt..cos this wasnt done under scientific conditions but i think its a fair reflection.
 
ginjaninja said:
im rock solid @ 1.16 (ive posted my 8hr prime 95 stable small ffts in the quad database)..do you have any good instructions/advice for removing the motherboard heatsinks and reapplying..i will do this at the same time as lapping the tru / q6600.
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Hi, trouble is I've never seen anyone running such a low vcore as that with your overclock...
Chris
 
chriscatt said:
Hi, trouble is I've never seen anyone running such a low vcore as that with your overclock...
Chris
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annoyingly the ease at which the cpu gets to 3.2 is not taken through to 3.6.for 3.6 i need 1.31v which is still ok.
cant get the motherboard to boot windows past 400 fsb though for love or money...on a very cold day it will do 450 but fail quite soon after...If the motherboard was better I would try and get more out of the q6600. that said Ive just read about disabling the transaction booster as a way of relaxing timings to point that higher fsbs are possible but i think others with board are finding 450fsb easier..a good instance of the chip and bad instance of the board, 1 out of 2 insnt bad.
 
Hi again, you must have a really good q6600 there, mine would not hit 3.2 without a vcore of at least 1.3. To get it to 3.6 I had to boost it to 1.43, which isn't that bad as I've seen vcore having to run at 1.5 to get that overclock.
BTW I am running transaction booster enabled and set to 0...
Chris
 
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out of interest, with DDR2 so cheap, is anyone running 4x2Gb sticks on this mobo? just interested as to how it holds up. I can imagine it puts a lot of stress on the memory controller, do you need extra volts on the northbridge?
 
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just upgraded to 907, asus tech support said it would fix ai probe reading error and temp sensor error a couple of us were experiencing..it didnt...now core temp 0.96 temps have jumped degrees higher...is my cpu running hotter or are the temps just being better reported 'better'..cpu-z shows the same vcore so i dont see how it could be hotter.
 
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