Asus x38 Maximus Formula SE Testing Continue...

BIOS Screens

Took some pictures of the BIOS screen, it does offer a lot of options that ordinary motherboard does provide. Lets take a loot at the screens :)


The FSB range 200 - 800!!!


The FSB strap options


PCIE Frequency 100 - 180


The memory divider when Strap set to 200


The memory divider when Strap set to 266


The memory divider when Strap set to 333


The memory divider when Strap set to 400


The primary and subtiming, more info in the sum up below


Ai Clock Twister



The wide range of vcore options (1.10000V - 2.40000V)



CPU PLL Voltage (1.50V - 3.00V)



North Bridge Voltage (1.25V - 1.81V)



DRAM Voltage (1.80V - 3.40V)



FSB Termination Voltage (1.20V - 2.00V)


South Bridge Voltage (1.050V - 1.225V)


Loadline Calibration aka Voltage Damper


CPU GTL Reference


Northbridge GTL Reference


DDR2 Channel A REF Voltage


DDR2 Channel B REF Voltage


The DDR2 Controller REF voltage


Southbridge 1.50V voltage (1.50V - 2.05V)


Profile page, a handy option that allows u to save your OCed settings, wish they could provide more, I dont find it enough!!!


Page showing the important temperature


The hardware monitoring, the complete list of all the voltages


The sum up of the bios options

Side Notes

1. The Loadline Calibration work same as the Voltage Damper, in 0401 BIOS, it doesnt work but it was fixed after 0504 BIOS
2. New BIOS is out, 0505, it fixes the divider issue that 0504 has, except 4:5 divider.

Asus X38 Maximus Formula SE Testing!!!

Finally this cool mobo arrive!!!! Took some picture with the mobo, lets check it out now! :P


The box of the mobo and the Accessory Box as well, nice looking huh, trust me u dont wanna know how much does this hot item cost!!! hehehehe



The stuffs in the accessory box






The Asus Fusion Block, thats what make this mobo so lovely^^


Finally they uses the high quality choke around the cpu socket area


The spacing of the dual 16X PCIE slot is very nice, its good for extreme cooling purposes xD


The Asus very own Stack Cool 2


The clockgen chipset


Alright thats all for now, gonna test the mobo now!!!

***p/s: sorry for the picture quality, it was taken from my SE K750 camera phone hehehehe

Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 testing

Just got the board few days back, been busy to try out the board but the performance doesn’t seem any surprise or out of expectation, or may be worst than p35 chipset, I hope it can be solve via bios, lets have a look at real “item”

the “Crazy Cool” backplate


CPU area


Dual x16 PCI-E


PCB Made in Taiwan
p/s: note tat ITE chipset, our software temperature sensor get reading from here


6 Layers PCB which help in dissipating heat



Ultra Durable2..does it work?lol


I stick a thermal probe at the base of heatpipe cooler


the heatpipe cooler really improve a lot from previous one, much better I would say,but still..x38 very hot


Voltage regulator


Clockgen


Fixed up with watercooling mounting and ready to test



First of all, look at the bios first


M.I.T



FSB(100~700)


PCIE Frequency



Robust Graphics Booster


C.I.A.2


Performance Enhance

set to extreme can gain some little bandwidth

Strap tied with ram divider



CAS Latency Time(3~7)


RAS# to CAS# Delay(1~15)



RAS# Precharge(1~15)



tRAS(1~31)



tRRD(1~15)



Write to READ Delay(1~31)



Write to Precahrge Delay(1~31)



Read to Precharge Delay(1~15)



tRD(1~31)



Static tRead Phase Adjust(1~31)



CMD Rate

it doesn’t work in F3 bios

CPU/PCIEX Clock Driving Control


CPU Clock Skew Control



MCH Clock Skew Control



Voltage Freak?
VDimm



PCI-E Voltage tied together with vPLL


vFSB


vMCH



MCH Ref Volt Control


DDR Ref Volt Control


MCH Termination Volt Control


VCore




CPU Feature

switch them off if u r overclock

thanks for viewing and sorry abt my english and the pic abit cacat after compressed by imageshack

system spec
C2D E6850 watercooled
Team Xtreem / Crucial 10th anny 1GB x2
nVidia 7300gt
silverstone op650 / op1000



P/S: this is F5f bios
Performance Enhance
Standard

Turbo

Xtreme

Turbo and Xtreme mode give a some performance boost but I unable to get it stable with Xtreme when running ddr1300 5-5-5-12

485x7
1:1 266 strap

1:1 333 strap

1:1 400 strap

Comparing between straps, I cant do high fsb if 266 strap was selected but with 333 and 400 strap, I can do up to 560fsb and tat is also my proc highest fsb

This is running at 550x7 with 400 strap and latter with 333 strap



5:6 divider 333strap

4:5 divider 266strap


New divider 3:4 400strap

3:4 200strap

200 strap give better bandwidth and latency



Clockspeed does affect bandwidth huh?

2:3 divider 266strap


5:8 divider 333 strap


Again clockspeed does affect bandwidth ?

3:5 divider 200strap


1:2 divider 266strap and 200strap


Not much different

Highest fsb 560x7



Try with 10th anny this time



Ok..i heard tat quite a lot of them saying f3 the best bios..so I give it a try
Again my highest fsb,take it compare with F5f bios above,1k MB/s reading bandwidth and 10ns latency gain


1:1 divider

5:6 divider

4:5 divider


2:3 divider

5:8 divider

3:5 divider

1:2 divider 200 strap

1:2 divider 266strap

In F3 bios,the 3:4 divider is missing and also only 1:2 divider come with 2 diff strap selection

New bios out,F5g…hehe..lets see 450x8
F3

F5g



Trying highest fsb can go with diff strap
333 strap,limited by ram,but np to do 560x7 at 333strap 1:1 divider

266strap,max fsb 455

200strap max fsb 447

400strap..limited by ram again..hehe


Some other result


*When I do comparing between dividers,ram speed always ddr1100 4-4-4-4