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Can i flash the bios on my maximus formula and join the thread :)
 
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Should have mine monday,big upgrade for me as im typing this on a p4 2gig with 640mgs of rambus 800
new build incs
Asus Rampage Formula Intel X48
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX 8500
Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP
Pioneer DVR-215DBK 20x
2 x Seagate Barracuda 320gig
1 x Seagate Barracuda 500gig
Enermax Infiniti 720W
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional
Core 2 Quad Q6600
Antec P182
Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra
allready it seems there could be a prob as on the enthusiast.hardocp review he states that his Apogee GT wouldnt fit ,ive quired Swiftech forums and have been told that they will give me the gtx water block if this is true
this is my first time overclocking and first time water cooling
should be an intresting week.
 
I think my Temps look good ,,time for a little stress testing now

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At work at the moment, but what bios does it have on out of the box?
I see 0207 about but not sure if it is worth going nuts and upgrading to a beta bios.

So far quite happy, although I didn't seem to be able to boot from a SATA attached Blueray drive when I had other SATA disks and RAID mode set.

Anyone else seen this and perhaps know a workaround - was forced to put an old IDE DVDROM in there for the time being.


Lastly got a QX9650 with this and when combined with Corsair Dominator ram it is very tightly fit in there, the ram heatsyncs may even be touching the cpu heatsync.
 
Electronic Punk said:
At work at the moment, but what bios does it have on out of the box?
I see 0207 about but not sure if it is worth going nuts and upgrading to a beta bios.

So far quite happy, although I didn't seem to be able to boot from a SATA attached Blueray drive when I had other SATA disks and RAID mode set.

Anyone else seen this and perhaps know a workaround - was forced to put an old IDE DVDROM in there for the time being.


Lastly got a QX9650 with this and when combined with Corsair Dominator ram it is very tightly fit in there, the ram heatsyncs may even be touching the cpu heatsync.
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I just plugged and played my sata drives ,, bios is the one out of the box and im on water so sorry i dont have the CPU heatsink problem .
 
I can boot from SATA HDDs fine.
I just couldn't boot from the SATA Blueray drive to get Vista installed - even though I had clearly selected it as the first boot device in the bios.

Sorted now tho as I booted from an IDE DVDROM - but was wondering if I had messed something else up so I can take out that drive and perhaps just disable the SATA/PATA controller if it isn't needed.
 
Just got mine installed last friday, very very impressed. Big improvement over my old Asus P5B Deluxe.

My first attempt @ overclocking on this board I jumped straight in and ran my Q6600 @ 3.6 nice and easy posted first time with Vcore @ 1.5v stable.
 
Loowi_ashley said:
Just got mine installed last friday, very very impressed. Big improvement over my old Asus P5B Deluxe.

My first attempt @ overclocking on this board I jumped straight in and ran my Q6600 @ 3.6 nice and easy posted first time with Vcore @ 1.5v stable.
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What kind of improvements have you observed so far? Thinking of switching to this from my ageing P5W DH, which is from the same stone age as your old P5B:D

Do you think I can get 4GB OCZ DDR2 8000 and squeeze 4Ghz out of my Q6600 on air 24/7 (probably Noctua NH-U12P)?
 
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Electronic Punk said:
So far quite happy, although I didn't seem to be able to boot from a SATA attached Blueray drive when I had other SATA disks and RAID mode set.
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I have the same issue with my P5K-Premium.....2 x SATA HDD's in Raid 0.
Stick in Pioneer DVR-215BK SATA burner and it just keep doing a 'seek' on the burner every so often. Win XP Pro. So, back to my DVR-112 IDE :)
 
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