Here's the thing, I don't like "Auto" settings, because it gives me the idea they might go higher, might go lower. On my Gigabyte board, everything is set to ONE thing so I know it's rock solid stable. I've had my 2160 at 3.0 for about six months now. NEVER had it crash on me and the temps never touch 52C or higher.
It's not my board, so I can't post settings, but I'm going to his house tomorrow and I'll log onto the forum from his laptop so I can post up. Off hand I can tell you, I enabled that Vdroop thingy that regulates CPU Voltage, I set the NB voltage to 1.4, FSB to 385, memory multiplier to 2, Command rate to 2n, CPU voltage to 1.31, cpu multiplier to 8.5, PCI-E Frequency to 105. Those two options WAY at the bottom, I disabled both of them.
Have you read the stickies? If not, it's in my signature.
Offhand, there are VTT, MCH, nb/sb voltages for your motherboard. Increase the MCH by ~.0.02v and vtt slightly (1 step at the time, while monitoring temperatures).
Do check your RAM too. Make sure it passes memset otherwise you may face curruption of data.
Those are generic over-clocking settings. I know how to over-clock. I've been using Gigabyte boards for quite some time now. I know about VTT multiplier, FSB multiplier, FSB frequency, PCI-E frequency, CPU voltage, NB voltage, SB voltage, speedstep settings. I know a lot of the fundamentals about ram timing, but basic timing like CAS delay and latency. (5-5-5-15, etc) I know about ram voltage. I know the most I can get out of the FSB is 450 or so. We're not shooting for an extreme OC, but we'd like to hit 3.5 and I think that's a reasonable goal when you have a Q9550 on a Rampage.
I didn't mean crap as in the board, I mean crap as in the situation dealing with this board. I'm a very good builder and I just can't get this BIOS to play nice with me. I guess it's because I'm not a fan of auto settings, I don't like the idea of the BIOS changing things on the fly.
chawks2 said:
There are definitely tons of settings on this board. Glock is correct about the quads having problems achieving high FSB, however, the QX9650 LOVES this board and clocks very high.
This thread has good information about oc'ing this board.
Those are about the Maximus Formula. Is it the same board but just with DDR3 instead of DDR2?