Asus Maximus II Formula P45 Info/Results/BIOS

[Lloyd_mcse]

Hi guys, i saw this helpful little thread at XtremeSystems so i thought i link u to it...
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=196184

[Lloyd_mcse]

Mine will be here on saturday, and i should have a q9550 on monday or tuesday. Not sure where the'll be in my LAN yet or what i'll be doing water cooling wise, i will post everything i find here.
I just hope the ICH10R can handle these new drives coz the ich9r certainly doesn't (mind u neither does the nforce 590 i have)
Regards
Lloyd

[Jura55ic]

I look forward to hearing how it runs

[Lloyd_mcse]

Sorry i've been help up by one or 2 formats of PCs on my LAN. The q9550 will be here tomorrow, that will replace my qx6700 as the qx700 will now be in this (MIIF) mobo, and eventually the q9550 will be in my Rig:1 with a Rampage Extreme

[Lloyd_mcse]

Well i've finished building mine, here are the specs for my Rig 3.....

Akasa Eclipse
Maximus II Formula
4GB Geil EVO ONE (just 6400)
Intel QX6700 w/ Zalman CNPS 9700-NT
eVGA 8800GTS 640MB stock air
2x Samsung F1 500GB ICH10R RAID0 128kb
X-Fi Fatal1ty
Seasonic M12 700watt

I've been very impressed with the quality of this board, the layout is great and the BIOS is far superior to that of the Maximus Extreme.
I'm going to have a fiddle later on, when i first started it the auto clocking was on, and set the qx6700 to 3.8GHz lol. I didn't let it try and boot.
So far the ICH10R hasn't had any issues with the samsung F1 drives, these are the same drives i was having isues with on the ich9r. We will see how things go.

[Lloyd_mcse]

just found this thread - 4GHz Q9550 overclock on this board...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=679

And there's also a Problems & Fixes thread here...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=205323