ASUS Maximus II Formula LGA 775 Intel P45

[bigslappy]

anybody got one of these ?

[Baleful]

:2up:

Haven't done anything extreme with it yet. Seeing as how this is in my work machine, I probably won't have much of a chance to. Solid board though, I love it.

[George]

i have one in a box next to me, looks nice haven't tried it yet :D

[bigslappy]

Throw that Q9450 into her & let us know what u think ... & what do u think about that Asus Xonar card ?

[George]

I have had no problems with it, its awesome :D paired with the Z5400's it kicks out some top quality audio for gaming and music ;)
i cant recommend it enough if you have some spare cash lieing around. But the jump from good on board sound so a graphics card isn't to all that great until you get into some really heavy gaming or some really challenging music :D

[dingdong555]

Got one, freaking awesome board.

To get my Q6600 to 3.6ghz, changed the CPU FSB/NB Voltage and it's stable!

[lloyd_mcse]

IMO It's an awesome board - BUY one :up:
The BIOS is way better than the Maximus Extreme, I'm yet to get my Rampage Extreme out of the box to test - maybe over the weekend

[Grnfinger]

Its a good board for sure, great?? hard to tell untill Asus actually codes a bios that works.

There are a few quirks with the board and PULL-Ins do not work wich hurts bandwidth and bench scores. Bios 1802 is decent and stable but still lacks working pull-ins. The 3 bios releases b4 that were complete disasters, I think Asus let the cleaning staff have a crack at bios coding.
MCW30 fits the NB rather well no mod was required, The GT looks like it was made for the board.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/Grnfinger/DSCF0035-1.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/Grnfinger/DSCF0036-1.jpg

[Overclocking101]

I have one! got for free cuz im doing a review on it. it's got some issues thats for sure. raid is a pita and again pullins dont work. but looks good, and I have my borrowed Q6600 up to 525fsb with ease. got the new swiftech nb block coming to slap that on as the nb gets REAL hot, but overall a decent board.

[Grnfinger]

NICE!
Cant get my Q9550 past 490FSB.
Bandwidth is poor on the board and latancy is crapola compared to my Rampage.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/Grnfinger/1140.png

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/Grnfinger/3Dmark06_best.jpg

[Yil]

Does anyone knows if there is an Full cover waterblock available for this board?

http://i35.tinypic.com/2rfg7pu.jpg

This is mine setup right now, but I would like to have an full block!

Gr Yil

[Grnfinger]

Yes a full coverage would look nice, I would be interested in one myself

[Gir]

I have one! got for free cuz im doing a review on it. it's got some issues thats for sure. raid is a pita and again pullins dont work. but looks good, and I have my borrowed Q6600 up to 525fsb with ease. got the new swiftech nb block coming to slap that on as the nb gets REAL hot, but overall a decent board.

Hey, what NB and VTT volts do you use for 525FSB on the quad?

[Grnfinger]

a little weekend fun

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/Grnfinger/3d06_500FSB_24375.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff267/Grnfinger/3d06_500FSB_22189.jpg

[just a noob]

just curious, how many volts do you need on the board to get 500mhz on the board? just curious, because i have one in the mail

[FrostByte]

how does that compare to a board like say.......This (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128358) one?

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P

[zlojack]

Nice work, Cory!!!

I like those benchmark scores.

But yeah, the Rampage wins in memory bandwidth and the Gigabyte UD3P wins for clocking quads and costs half of this board.

It's a good board, but not a great board.

[Fitseries3]

i have an asus NB-MAX for this board. its not doing me any good now that i dont have something to use it on though. been trying to sell it for a few weeks.

[Grnfinger]

Nice work, Cory!!!

I like those benchmark scores.

But yeah, the Rampage wins in memory bandwidth and the Gigabyte UD3P wins for clocking quads and costs half of this board.

It's a good board, but not a great board.

Its not my fav board thats for sure, Asus drop'd the ball on my RMA, I was supposed to be upgraded from a Maximus X38 to a Rampage, now I have 2 of these. Atleast they got the T-Shirt size right.:rolleyes:
The bandwidth is limited and the phase pull ins do not work, you have to run PL10 for 1:1 and that sucks ass big time...anything above 430-440 FSB and you PL 8 or higher to post, its really in need of a good coded bios...perhaps Asus should let the cleaning staff have a go at it cause the engineers cant seem to get the job done.