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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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dkz77
Level 7
I have updated the bios to version 1605 and I lost all my profiles oc! 😞
I lost all my notes for overclocking carried out during the summer....
Luckily, I had saved all my profiles OC "1505 bios" on pendrive.
I would like to retrieve my notes ...
you can downgrade bios 1505?:confused:

------------/Sorry for my bad English...

PerpetualCycle
Level 13
They are lost. You can downgrade but your notes and profiles are gone.

You can save individual (current) settings to a USB flash drive for a particular BIOS version, but you cannot load it to a different BIOS version. So if you would have loaded and saved all of your profiles to USB for 1505, you could have restored them after a downgrade. But now you will need to remember what they are and enter them manually.

Also, when you save the settings to USB, it does not save favorites or notes.

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geneo wrote:
They are lost. You can downgrade but your notes and profiles are gone.

You can save individual (current) settings to a USB flash drive for a particular BIOS version, but you cannot load it to a different BIOS version. So if you would have loaded and saved all of your profiles to USB for 1505, you could have restored them after a downgrade. But now you will need to remember what they are and enter them manually.

Also, when you save the settings to USB, it does not save favorites or notes.


many thanks...

Antony-rog
Level 8
The OC function on the latest BIOS is really improved, I would suggest you to update. The power saving is really what I noticed to be the best improved feature with AI suite and the new BIOS.
Remember to clear the CMOS before the update using the button on the back or change on the BIOS to default.

erbao
Level 7
Cool!:cool:

Antony-rog
Level 8
Can some help me? I cannot connect to rog connect bluetooth using an android device.
It says in the device "The connection is not available"
Thank you.

Antony-rog
Level 8
I tried bios updates but still same problem, looked over the internet and I found one page here on the Rampage IV section http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?812-ROG-Connect-and-RC-Bluetooth-guide/page2 but same problem, no answer.
However I did find out that the previous bios 1505 version is better then the 1603 on waking the pc up. Don't know why, but it is.

pali1H
Level 7
Quick question to any of you gurus' out there. So I did a really nice custom loop in my 900D case with the Formula board. Spared no expense on the loop. I have my 4770k running at 4.5ghz stable but my question is, is it worth it to add the chipset cooler to the water loop? As of now, I didn't put it in the loop as fearing a flow bottle neck. I know it isn't necessary to do but has anyone noticed more OC ability or stability with adding it to the loop? Any opinion is welcome and appreciated!

How are all the temps there?
You should see it first but I don't think you need to do that.

Antony-rog
Level 8
There is an update from Intel integrated graphics that is not on the mobo list in Asus site.

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Then I lunched the auslogycs trial utility and this shows up.

50546

Is the Asus site outdated? I don't know if this tool is reliable but the Intel tool did found an outdated driver that was listed there too.