ASUS Rampage II Extreme

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11-17-2008, 01:21 AM
N19h7m4r3

Dual payment? Must be a US things, I have never heard of an EU store that uses that, it's hard enough to find a place that ships to Ireland at a reasonable price :(
11-17-2008, 02:16 AM
Bootsy

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Originally Posted by stasio

ASUS Rampage II Extreme Bios 0602

Damn board just out and aready two bios updates. I just loaded 0503 yesterday.
11-17-2008, 02:20 AM
T_Flight

That makes me glad I got this board. That means they are right on top of it. At least it's got flashback. :)
11-17-2008, 03:56 AM
woffen

This has been asked many times but haven't seen a answer. Is it possible to have a 1x pci-e soundcard (creative, asus) in the upper slot or does only the one provided with the board fit there??
11-17-2008, 05:30 AM
Justifire

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Originally Posted by woffen

This has been asked many times but haven't seen a answer. Is it possible to have a 1x pci-e soundcard (creative, asus) in the upper slot or does only the one provided with the board fit there??

I have asked before and no-one answered that question.
But, i have figured out a solution for myself.
I have the Asus Xonar D2X.
If you use the small pci bracket (low profile) that's bundeled with the card and buy a flexible PCI-E x1 cable it should fit.
The card will hang above the motherboard, connected through the flexible PCI-E x1 cable.
Man that's gonna be like Star Trek :D
I'm pretty sure this will work, so we have:
a. the best mobo around and
b. great sound instead of FX crap card :up:
11-17-2008, 06:04 AM
Bootsy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Justifire

I have asked before and no-one answered that question.
But, i have figured out a solution for myself.
I have the Asus Xonar D2X.
If you use the small pci bracket (low profile) that's bundeled with the card and buy a flexible PCI-E x1 cable it should fit.
The card will hang above the motherboard, connected through the flexible PCI-E x1 cable.
Man that's gonna be like Star Trek :D
I'm pretty sure this will work, so we have:
a. the best mobo around and
b. great sound instead of FX crap card :up:

Here is what i did

I removed the heat sink from the nb and put an small fan there.
with the heat sink out of the way my Fatlity PCI-E fits just fine and the Nb is actually cooler.
11-17-2008, 09:07 AM
Fitseries3

just got my R2E.....

any suggestions on how to insulate around the CPU socket?
11-17-2008, 09:14 AM
Slovnaft

kneaded rubber
11-17-2008, 01:02 PM
Justifire

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bootsy

Here is what i did

I removed the heat sink from the nb and put an small fan there.
with the heat sink out of the way my Fatlity PCI-E fits just fine and the Nb is actually cooler.

That's also a nice solution :yepp:
But i think you run into trouble when using a waterblock on the Northbridge.
11-17-2008, 01:58 PM
woffen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Justifire

That's also a nice solution :yepp:
But i think you run into trouble when using a waterblock on the Northbridge.

I won't have no waterblock on the northbridge so that might work for me. Clever solution. Is it possible to put like a Thermalright cooler on there instead of the normal heatsink and still have for example the sonar there? What fan did you use btw?
11-17-2008, 02:18 PM
Astratuner

You could put that PCI-x1 card into you bottom PCI-x16 slot
11-17-2008, 09:37 PM
k0mpulsive

Sick!
11-17-2008, 10:33 PM
Fitseries3

any OC tips on this board? im using a 920 chip and cant seem to get anything over 3.2ghz to run.
11-18-2008, 12:03 AM
k0mpulsive

Quote:

Originally Posted by fitseries3

any OC tips on this board? im using a 920 chip and cant seem to get anything over 3.2ghz to run.

What kind of heatsink/fan and case are you using?
11-18-2008, 01:01 AM
woffen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astratuner

You could put that PCI-x1 card into you bottom PCI-x16 slot

Oh nice. Didn't know that was possible. Thanks for the info!:up:
11-18-2008, 03:09 AM
Bootsy

Quote:

Originally Posted by woffen

I won't have no waterblock on the northbridge so that might work for me. Clever solution. Is it possible to put like a Thermalright cooler on there instead of the normal heatsink and still have for example the sonar there? What fan did you use btw?

This one
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akakchco.html
11-18-2008, 08:42 AM
Fitseries3

Quote:

Originally Posted by k0mpulsive

What kind of heatsink/fan and case are you using?

320watt TEC
11-18-2008, 12:07 PM
SF3D

Here is one random SLI score from last weekend bench session.

Only my bad cpu is maxed in that run. Cards can do much better :)
http://www.aijaa.com/img/b/00542/3104537.jpg

SLI is working perfectly on X58 motherboards.

Some 3-way vantage runs will come soon.
11-18-2008, 12:44 PM
Astratuner

Guys can I ask you something.

I've been thinking but I don't know if this can be done.

If I would have 6 hard driver and 1 dvd burner eh...

Knowing this board has 6 SATA connectors will you be able to hook all things up ?

Or is the max I can do is 5 HD's and 1 sata dvd burner?

Thanks
11-19-2008, 05:09 PM
Fitseries3

so can someone help me out with some bios settings for my R2E+920 setup? i cant get anything over 4ghz stable.
11-21-2008, 09:14 AM
Brian y.

OK guys I need somebody who has this board to double check something for me. I was using my multimeter and testing the CPU voltage on the board when I noticed something that has really got me puzzled. While I have the BIOS set to 1.44v and everything inside the BIOS and LCD poster including all external app's reflect this I noticed with the multimeter that it sky rockets all the way up to 1.72v under load then will stay this way after?!?!

Something is totally off here and I was wondering if somebody could verify that this is really happening.....
11-21-2008, 12:16 PM
Astratuner

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astratuner

Guys can I ask you something.

I've been thinking but I don't know if this can be done.

If I would have 6 hard driver and 1 dvd burner eh...

Knowing this board has 6 SATA connectors will you be able to hook all things up ?

Or is the max I can do is 5 HD's and 1 sata dvd burner?

Thanks

Nobosy:shrug::shrug::shrug:
11-21-2008, 01:27 PM
MrHydes

great review elmor, thank you. :clap:

off the record: it's nice to see you folks playing around in XP. Me too! :up:

all this plataform nehalem is really something, everyday i get even

more surprised with the evolution of processors and chipsets.

Amazing job Intel did, and asus didn't dissapointed too. :up:
11-21-2008, 01:30 PM
Bootsy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astratuner

Guys can I ask you something.

I've been thinking but I don't know if this can be done.

If I would have 6 hard driver and 1 dvd burner eh...

Knowing this board has 6 SATA connectors will you be able to hook all things up ?

Or is the max I can do is 5 HD's and 1 sata dvd burner?

Thanks

The board has 7 sata ports. 6 connected to the ICHR10 and 1 connected to the JMicron contoller so you should be all right.
11-21-2008, 02:56 PM
T_Flight

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian y.

OK guys I need somebody who has this board to double check something for me. I was using my multimeter and testing the CPU voltage on the board when I noticed something that has really got me puzzled. While I have the BIOS set to 1.44v and everything inside the BIOS and LCD poster including all external app's reflect this I noticed with the multimeter that it sky rockets all the way up to 1.72v under load then will stay this way after?!?!

Something is totally off here and I was wondering if somebody could verify that this is really happening.....

Whoa whoa whoa! :eek: Yeah I'd like to hear something on this one too. I'm getting ready to boot mine possibly Monday if I don't run into any snags. That's almost a .3v difference! :shocked:

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