Maximus VI Formula Discussion Thread

[Raja]

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 🙂

[Praz]

vajoiner wrote:
thunderbolt, sirs. there's a tb header on the board. will the Z87 tb card work on the formula? if not, why? and/or why isn't there a card for this board? i be wanting one. argh.

Hello

The ThunderboltEX II add-in card is compatible with the following motherboards.

MAXIMUS VI EXTREME
SABERTOOTH Z87
Z87-PRO
Z87-PRO(V EDITION)
Z87-PLUS
Z87-PLUS(VivoMouse EDITION)
Z87-A
Z87-A(NFC EXPRESS EDITION)

[vajoiner]

Praz wrote:
The ThunderboltEX II add-in card is compatible with the following motherboards. etc..

yes, i've done the reading myself before posting but that list is not necessarily the law. i'd like a more technical explanation than because they said so. theres a header and display port. why doesnt it work?

[Praz]

vajoiner wrote:
i'm willing to bet it does work on the formula.

Hello

If that's the case you should purchase the Front Base and let us all know how that went.

[hypermax]

Hi, i have just upgraded to ASUS maximus VI formula with 4770K. Using Gigabyte R9 290 reference (GV-R929D5-4GD-B) x 2 units. Previously on my MVF, the crossfire worked fine. However after changing mobo, the 2nd graphic card is shown as disabled under Catalyst driver. Also i have noticed uneven PCIE speed in the bios as follow:



I have already tried the following but without success:

1. Reformat my hdd
2. Update my mobo bios
3. Update my graphic card bios

Btw, i have tested the graphic cards individually. Both working fine.

[Late2theGame]

HI,

I am building my first system with the Maximus VI Formula and the only two issue I had so far are (other than missing one power cable ;-):

- The nVidia GTX 780 TI was not recognized at all. I had to download and update the latest driver manually first, then it worked fine.

- My network speed was only ~30% of what it should be and ping was atrocious. It took me some time to fix this.
I had to uninstall the GameFirst II, which removes the cFos traffic shaping component from the network adapters. Now it seems to work fine.

I saw similar issues mentioned for other ASUS boards, so I just wanted to mention and document it here.

[ElectricCowBoy]

Why is there no bootmenu!!??!? Only boot selection in the UEFI?

[Noldat]

I am unsure if this is the right forum and I didn't have much luck searching for this information. I have a Maximus Formula VI with a 4770K I7. I watched this youtube vide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoaAT5TkXc4 and it explained how to use the AI Suite 3 to overclock my system. The part that didnt make sense to me is my AI Suite does not have the same options. Instead of the system slowly moving up the clock speed mine has three choices 4.2, 4.4, and 4.6. What am i doing wrong? Should i have those options to auto overclock like those videos?

Thanks

[simplesi]

Hi Guys,

I'm new here and thought I'd say hello and start by asking a question about my MAximus VI Formula motherboard. I have only started to notice that the LED counter shows the Qcode A5. I understand this to be SCSi Reset, but how and what am I supposed to do? Has anyone came across this before?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Si

[Corsair_Riker]

simplesi wrote:
Hi Guys,

I'm new here and thought I'd say hello and start by asking a question about my MAximus VI Formula motherboard. I have only started to notice that the LED counter shows the Qcode A5. I understand this to be SCSi Reset, but how and what am I supposed to do? Has anyone came across this before?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Si

Does this stop your computer from booting at all? If so - how far (i.e. can you still boot to the BIOS)?

How do you have your hard drives connected? What type of disk drives do you have in your machine? Other components?

Really need a full run down of the hardware in your machine and how you have it all connected.

So yeah - bit more information required.

[br4sco]

ok ill give it a try thx Raja!