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Maximus VI Formula Discussion Thread

Raja
Level 13
Maximus VI Formula Overview and Discussion Thread

The Maximus VI Formula should be available to purchase in a few weeks. A motherboard many have been waiting for, and for good reason. Plenty of cool features on offer, we won't go into them all, but have picked out some of the salient ones for you to check out below:

Board layout and features at a glance:



Gaming Features



SupremeFX






The Maximus VI Formula sports a specialized audio solution called SupremeFX. Based on Realtek’s latest ALC1150 chipset, the Cirrus Logic DAC and the TPA6120 headphone amplifier and an optimized PCB layout - isolating PCB layers and spacing sensitive traces away from other areas of the motherboard. Shielding is also utilized to minimize spurious noise from entering signal lines. High quality capacitors are used for power supply decoupling to minimize ripple and provide a low impedance at audio critical frequencies. The end result is a 120dB SNR, placing the Maximus VI Formula's onboard audio solution on par with the best discrete soundcards available.


On the software side, the latest addition to the package is Sonic Radar:






The Sonic Radar GUI


Sonic Radar is a HUD that is useful in FPS games. It shows a visual representation of where sounds are coming from. The location of footsteps, gunshots, explosions and anything else is shown in the 360 degree HUD while gaming:




BF3 – Sonic Radar showing direction of audio effects




The HUD can be made more transparent and its location on the screen changed. Sonic Radar very useful feature when gaming with stereo headsets, where surround effects are simulated and may not be easy to pinpoint.



On the subject of headsets, Perfect Voice has been added to improve the clarity of VOIP calls. It’s a software based filter that uses digital signal processing to remove noise pickup from your mic while making a call:






DSP helps reduce ambient noise for clearer comms



Perfect Voice works with any plug in microphone/headset to clean up voice transmission during calls.




ROG RAMDISK





With high density memory modules and kits becoming the norm, many of us have an abundance of free memory on our systems that never gets utilized. ROG RAM Disk has been coded to take advantage of that free space to help speed up the system.





ROG RAM Disk GUI



Unlike many free RAM drive tools, ROG RAM DISK has no size limitations – up to 80% of the free memory (not used by the OS) can be configured as a RAM drive.


To get you an idea of how fast a RAM drive is, check the screenshot below:





10000 MB/s sequential write speeds



Applications stored on ROG RAM DISK are written to hard storage (HHD/SSD) when the system is prompted for shutdown.



Of course, re-installing games to the RAM DISK would be a painful experience. That's why ROG RAM DISK has a feature know as Junction Mode.








Setting a junction point to a game folder allows critical game files to be transferred to the RAM DISK without interfering with the original installation. Just point the software at the game folder and it will take care of the rest. This way, critical files such as maps can be accessed directly from the RAM DISK, speeding up load times.



Discussing features is fine, but what really matters for many users in knowing a board can overclock and run stable. How about 24 hour stability testing? Here's a few screenies from JJ, showing the Maximus VI Formula running different memory configs and CPU overclocks:




Over 24 hours AIDA64 passed at 4.7GHz DDR3-2800 16GB 4x4




Over 24 hours AIDA64 passed at 4.6GHz DDR3-2133 32GB 8X4





4.8GHz DDR3-2400 AIDA 1 Hour - right at the limits of the CPU and cooling






Use this thread to discuss/share results when you get your boards folks 🙂
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Raja
Level 13
Don't use a 4 pin connector on its own! If using a single connector use an 8 pin. For extreme overclocking one can use the 8 pin AND 4 pin simultaneously.

8+4 pin together is fine.

Raja@ASUS wrote:
Don't use a 4 pin connector on its own! If using a single connector use an 8 pin. For extreme overclocking one can use the 8 pin AND 4 pin simultaneously.

8+4 pin together is fine.


Thank you very much. Time to fill this loop up and test for leaks 😃
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IcezX2K
Level 7
I forgot to check the voltage I was running at. Was what ever the default was set at. I will get screen shots tonight.

Arallu
Level 7
Wonder when Amazon will get these. Only link I can find on Amazon is to buy from an overseas (Germany) store there, which is cheaper than from Newegg (tax) but est. shipping is 1-3 weeks =(
If C2 stepping isn't coming until late-Sept, may just start looking at X79 + Ivy-E.

xfpPl
Level 7
I'm not trying to get anybody's hopes up, but I appear to have a C2 revision Maximus VI Formula: http://valid.canardpc.com/2890706

For those that are interested, I ordered it from Newegg on August 9th. I haven't tested sleep with USB 3.0 devices, mostly because I don't use sleep mode, but it should work fine if CPU-Z is correct.

So far everything on the motherboard seems fine, except that it doesn't actually shut down when Windows 7 tells it to. The lights stay on and everything. Heck, I can check the wattage output on my UPS and it shows over 100 watts, but when I flip the power switch on the PSU directly the reading goes to 0 watts like it should. It's probably something stupid that I did, rather than a motherboard issue.

And no, I haven't done any overclocking, mostly because I'm having some stability issues likely related to my UPS, or possibly my GPU. I don't quite have it nailed down yet, but the UPS is going first. I know with a good degree of certainty that it's not my motherboard, CPU, PSU, or hard drive because I just replaced all of them, yet the exact same type of random freezing that was happening before I got them is still happening. I'll get this all sorted out yet.

xfpPl wrote:
I'm not trying to get anybody's hopes up, but I appear to have a C2 revision Maximus VI Formula: http://valid.canardpc.com/2890706


Interesting. What does the BIOS say, there is a page that shows the SB stepping in there as per previous images posted in this thread. Can you post yours please?

AusRoG wrote:
Interesting. What does the BIOS say, there is a page that shows the SB stepping in there as per previous images posted in this thread. Can you post yours please?

This should do.
http://i.imgur.com/Gi1aPg2.png

zk1mpls
Level 7
^ How can you guys tell what stepping/revision (C1 or C2) your Maximus VI Formula is? Just picked up my board earlier today... hoping to build it tomorrow if I have the time. Just need to give my rig a thorough cleaning first. 🙂
Sig Rig:
Cooler Master Cosmos II
Intel Core i7 2600K (sold)
ASUS Maximus V Formula (sold)
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Dominator GT 1866MHz
EVGA GTX 680 2GB (getting a Hydro Copper block soon)
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD
Seasonic Platinum 1000W

zk1mpls wrote:
^ How can you guys tell what stepping/revision (C1 or C2) your Maximus VI Formula is? Just picked up my board earlier today... hoping to build it tomorrow if I have the time. Just need to give my rig a thorough cleaning first. 🙂

CPU-Z motherboard tab.

warmmilk
Level 7
What exactly is the difference between C1 and C2 stepping? Some of you have posted something about puttig you comp to sleep with USB 3 stuff plugged in. Is that it or is there more to it? I have C1 so I'm wondering what I'm missing out on...