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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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Krab19 wrote:
On your cpu-z, where you see the southbridge (labelled as SB), that's where you see the C2 stepping or rev. 5. And yes, that is what you would be checking for in your bios.

Looks like you definitely got yourself a C2 stepping!!


Thanks that is good news. Ordered mine on August/9th from Newegg and shipped it overseas. it seems anyone ordered on that date is going to get the C2 copy!. xfpPl also ordered the same day as he said on page 50.

Actually I will not care that much if it was a C1 copy not really a big issue for me but it's a good news anyway.
Asus MX279H 27-Inch Monitor
Asus PLEASE RELEASE THIS Mother******
Asus GTX770 GraphicC x2
Asus DVD-RW
Asus Blue-Rey
Corsair 650D Case
Corsair H100i Cooler
Corsair 860 PSU
Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB 2133 MHz RAM
Corsair K50 Keyboard
Corsair M95 Mouse
Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD
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Intel Core i7-4770K CPU
Creative Sound Blaster ZxR SBX Sound Card
Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hard Disk Drive

THE WHOLE DAMN STUFF ALREADY AVAILABLE IN MY DISK !!

Guys I'm facing a problem and I thought i might get some help here. My new build with the VI Formula finished already and everything seems great except one issue. My PC turn itself on from time to time!!. and this is happening to me after I shut down the PC or when putting it to sleep. Any suggestions ??

by the way I have the C2 version of the motherboard.
Asus MX279H 27-Inch Monitor
Asus PLEASE RELEASE THIS Mother******
Asus GTX770 GraphicC x2
Asus DVD-RW
Asus Blue-Rey
Corsair 650D Case
Corsair H100i Cooler
Corsair 860 PSU
Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB 2133 MHz RAM
Corsair K50 Keyboard
Corsair M95 Mouse
Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD
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Intel Core i7-4770K CPU
Creative Sound Blaster ZxR SBX Sound Card
Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hard Disk Drive

THE WHOLE DAMN STUFF ALREADY AVAILABLE IN MY DISK !!

Samurai_dk
Level 7
I got mine 3 days ago on Saturday so hoping its a C2, the shipment was delayed for a while so I hope it was for that reason!

Lethal_Intent
Level 7
Got mine on the 7th August NZ (6th US) is this a C2. Im guessing it might not be cause how early I got it? http://valid.canardpc.com/2893739
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K
CPU Cooling: NZXT Kraken X60
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus VI Formula
Memory: Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz
Graphics Card: Sapphire AMD RADEON HD7970 GHZ VAPOR-X 3GB (Xfire soon)
Hard Drive: Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD, Seagate Barracuda 2TB
Power Supply: Corsair AX Series AX860
Case: Cooler Master Storm Stryker
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 24" 226BW, AOC I2757FH 27"
OS: Windows 7 Pro X64

Lethal_Intent wrote:
Got mine on the 7th August NZ (6th US) is this a C2. Im guessing it might not be cause how early I got it? http://valid.canardpc.com/2893739


The line "SB : Intel Lynx Point-LP rev 05" says you have revision C2 (or 05). You can also see the same on the main page in the BIOS.

It's good so see there are already a lot of C2 boards in the channel, I'll give it a few more weeks before I buy to maximize my chances of getting a C2 board.

AusRoG wrote:
The line "SB : Intel Lynx Point-LP rev 05" says you have revision C2 (or 05). You can also see the same on the main page in the BIOS.

It's good so see there are already a lot of C2 boards in the channel, I'll give it a few more weeks before I buy to maximize my chances of getting a C2 board.


can confirm that mine is a C2/5 board


anyway to take screenshots of bios?

Samurai_dk wrote:
anyway to take screenshots of bios?
Plug in Fat32 formated usb drive and press F12.

scuppy
Level 7
Hi guys, I need a little help now that I've built my system.

Everytime my PC boots into windows I get this appear.



Not sure how to resolve it. I have reinstalled the chipset drivers from the CD, even copied them to my desktop and installed them from there and it still loads up with this error. very annoying.

help please 😄
| i7 4770k | Asus VI Formula | 8GB Corsair | ATI 7970 |
| M4 128GB SSD | 2x2TB F4 Eco HDD | Galaxy 850W |
| Dell 2407WFP | Dell 2405FPW | TJ07-B | Aego M 2.1 |
| RX480 | D5 | EK-Supremacy CSQ | EK-FC7970 CSQ |

Raja
Level 13
What is your D drive - optical?

Yeah, I have sorted it. Just removed the two setup files from task scheduler and no more issues.

I'm trying to OC through AI Suite 3 and I don't have the same options as the videos JJ has on youtube. sigh.
| i7 4770k | Asus VI Formula | 8GB Corsair | ATI 7970 |
| M4 128GB SSD | 2x2TB F4 Eco HDD | Galaxy 850W |
| Dell 2407WFP | Dell 2405FPW | TJ07-B | Aego M 2.1 |
| RX480 | D5 | EK-Supremacy CSQ | EK-FC7970 CSQ |