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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:
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.
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:
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
I had named the flash m6f1505.cap I renamed it just M6F.cap and the flash took about a min and a half or so. I stopped counting after it
did over 100 flashes. I feel it accepted the new 1505 bios. I tried starting it up without the cpu in and got 00 and then shut it down
and put the cpu back in and again, it just does 00. I called new egg and they said an outside source does the testing on these returned
motherboards, and that if I wanted to return it, I have 23 days left. That means even though I only received the VI Formula yesterday, that
they include shipping back and forth. I would get a full refund and they said they would add 25 bucks for my trouble.
I am really lost now as to what to do. If the intel Celeron G1820 Haswell Dual-Core for the 49 bucks will help me, I will order it, I just dont have
much time left. You would just not believe how all of this makes me feel. I was laid off from work a few weeks ago and have a lot of time on my
hands, and battlefield 4 just came out with some new maps and I cant play. To those who dont play games, this will seem silly, but I built this
computer just to play bf4 and hey, ya got to have some hobbies !!!
When I had bent socket pins in my old vi formula, I would get the codes 15 21 55 and the dram light would come on. Now with the DC cpu in place
or not, all I get is 00 so how am I suppose to be able to tell what is going on ? If I buy the right cheap cpu to get my pc to post, then I will be ok,
but I need to know for sure which on to buy. I know the list for supported cpu's on the asus website, but know nothing about which one to get
in order for my MB to be able to post and work enough to be able to eventually put the DC back in. Thank you so much for any help !!!
did over 100 flashes. I feel it accepted the new 1505 bios. I tried starting it up without the cpu in and got 00 and then shut it down
and put the cpu back in and again, it just does 00. I called new egg and they said an outside source does the testing on these returned
motherboards, and that if I wanted to return it, I have 23 days left. That means even though I only received the VI Formula yesterday, that
they include shipping back and forth. I would get a full refund and they said they would add 25 bucks for my trouble.
I am really lost now as to what to do. If the intel Celeron G1820 Haswell Dual-Core for the 49 bucks will help me, I will order it, I just dont have
much time left. You would just not believe how all of this makes me feel. I was laid off from work a few weeks ago and have a lot of time on my
hands, and battlefield 4 just came out with some new maps and I cant play. To those who dont play games, this will seem silly, but I built this
computer just to play bf4 and hey, ya got to have some hobbies !!!
When I had bent socket pins in my old vi formula, I would get the codes 15 21 55 and the dram light would come on. Now with the DC cpu in place
or not, all I get is 00 so how am I suppose to be able to tell what is going on ? If I buy the right cheap cpu to get my pc to post, then I will be ok,
but I need to know for sure which on to buy. I know the list for supported cpu's on the asus website, but know nothing about which one to get
in order for my MB to be able to post and work enough to be able to eventually put the DC back in. Thank you so much for any help !!!
Hello Guys
I'll be the first time visiting your Country. I'll be going to Los Angeles and Las Vegas 03 September to 11 September.
And I'm looking on Amazon and Newegg the Asus Maximus Formula VII and the i7-4790K, but I have a major dilemma:
* Buy only the i7-4790K and install on my M6F?
About installing i7-4790K in M6F:
- I have the i7-4770K and just update your BIOS only version 2.00.02?
- Someone who has installed the i7-4790K in the M6F, please help me by saying how to do?
ps: for me it will be economical to buy only the i7-4790K, but I am afraid can not do M6F recognize i7-4790K
Thank you for your help....
Here is a picture of my PC:
I'll be the first time visiting your Country. I'll be going to Los Angeles and Las Vegas 03 September to 11 September.
And I'm looking on Amazon and Newegg the Asus Maximus Formula VII and the i7-4790K, but I have a major dilemma:
* Buy only the i7-4790K and install on my M6F?
About installing i7-4790K in M6F:
- I have the i7-4770K and just update your BIOS only version 2.00.02?
- Someone who has installed the i7-4790K in the M6F, please help me by saying how to do?
ps: for me it will be economical to buy only the i7-4790K, but I am afraid can not do M6F recognize i7-4790K
Thank you for your help....
Here is a picture of my PC:
