***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

Great triple SLI 480s result Boadar! :up:

Congrats on the gold cup 3DM03 Bodar, well done man !!

Are those TEK9 FAT GPU pots you used there?

Thanks so much Nick and Linuxfan!! :) I did a test once with 4 gtx 480's on air and a 5700mhz cpu clock.. It was also decent.. about 176k.. Maybe there is a 4-way sli gpu frequency combined with a 6200mhz+ that may be good as well.. Or just bump the cpu up to 6400mhz and use 3 of these on ln2 at below 1100mhz.. :D Maybe 1050 might be good.. I dont think anyone is going to beat Nicks 217k score though. that's really awesome!! :D

Thanks Brolloks for all the help on the IOH stuff!! Yeah! tek 9 slim.. There's alot of insulation tape around them.. Makes it look bigger I guess.

i think the base clocks of the 480s are 33mhz i'm not sure..when we were benching 3 480s...we got weird results.... congrats with results...what bios was used for 3d?

nichshih is back!!! nick hows the new kp pot? :D

The bios I used was 704.. I think it's improved with the newer 3d bios.. Maybe I'll try that soon!! Thanks Hondacity!! :D

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Originally Posted by brolloks

The 1st ones were rev 1.0G and the later ones rev 2.0G, this is my 2nd board...the 1st one I had was a rev 1.0 and sucked badly, and could not get pass 210 bclck with a variety of CPU's...my current one is a rev 1.0 as well and is great and does 255 blclk on the 980X. From what I can gather the rev 2.0 fixed a lot of issues the 1st one had especially with low bclck walls.

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Thank you for your reply!!

In Japan, Ist delivery lot are rev2, 2nd delivery are rev1.
So I guess rev2 has any problem, now change there rev to rev1.
But as your info, rev 2 is beter than rev1.

I checked some HWBot ranking, SF3D's REX3 is rev1., other top ranker used rev2.
So rev1 & rev2 does not have many changes･････?

Awesome score Bodar!!

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Originally Posted by brolloks

It shows up in CPUZ as Rev 1.xx or 2.xx under the motherboard tab...it is also noted on the board or box

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for me, is rev 2.0 shows up in CPU-Z but the motherboard is rev 1.04g :confused:

there are R3E where indicated rev 2.0 on the board?

Guys please dont trust cpu-z with these boards it isnt configured to read them properly, incorrect vcore and display.

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Originally Posted by Hondacity

i think the base clocks of the 480s are 33mhz i'm not sure..when we were benching 3 480s...we got weird results.... congrats with results...what bios was used for 3d?

nichshih is back!!! nick hows the new kp pot? :D

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TEK6.66 ? they are so good ... easy to put LN2 & control the temp :up:

and i'm always here ,,, just busy in my work ... :shocked:

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Originally Posted by kurumi_Japan

Thank you for your reply!!

In Japan, Ist delivery lot are rev2, 2nd delivery are rev1.
So I guess rev2 has any problem, now change there rev to rev1.
But as your info, rev 2 is beter than rev1.

I checked some HWBot ranking, SF3D's REX3 is rev1., other top ranker used rev2.
So rev1 & rev2 does not have many changes･････?

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i think it depands on ur chill controller ....

some early chill controllers have cold bug issue

but i think retail version already solved the problems .

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Originally Posted by nickshih

i think it depands on ur chill controller ....

some early chill controllers have cold bug issue

but i think retail version already solved the problems .

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yeah i heard something bout the chil controller...i still got bad cb on a 980x

i'll try another config..and bios...thanks for mentioning the "chil" its been buggin me for awhile now...:up:

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Originally Posted by Hondacity

yeah i heard something bout the chil controller...i still got bad cb on a 980x

i'll try another config..and bios...thanks for mentioning the "chil" its been buggin me for awhile now...:up:

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config and BIOS will not solve the problem .

i was using a heating mos to heat the chill before . it works

but i think that changing a mobo is the fast way .

nick

is this what you have?

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...5/P1030258.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...5/P1030256.jpg

Are you talking about cb with the mobo.. If so, I tested an i7 980x yesterday and the mobo shut off at -110c :( Put my favorite chip in and I'm rockin for a few hours straight at -185c :D
I'm pretty sure I have one of the first retails as well.. Hey Nick.. Does the NB pot really help alot on the SR-2? Max clocks on vantage without it have been about 5400mhz so far with two x5680's..

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Originally Posted by uncle fester

Guys please dont trust cpu-z with these boards it isnt configured to read them properly, incorrect vcore and display.

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I think that 1.55 version of cpu-z has solved this problem . I will check it again though :)

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Originally Posted by Hondacity

nick

is this what you have?

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ya , my good R3E all 1.04G

Chill Coldbug always make the offset voltage having some problem

Something like u set 1.7v in BIOS , but u only get 1.5~1.6v

and Some Chill Coldbug will make ur CPU coldbug moving .....

U can replace the mobo with ASUS , if u have such mobo with defective chill chip :up:

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Originally Posted by Bodar

Are you talking about cb with the mobo.. If so, I tested an i7 980x yesterday and the mobo shut off at -110c :( Put my favorite chip in and I'm rockin for a few hours straight at -185c :D
I'm pretty sure I have one of the first retails as well.. Hey Nick.. Does the NB pot really help alot on the SR-2? Max clocks on vantage without it have been about 5400mhz so far with two x5680's..

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NB pot really help the stability of the BCLK and QPI LINK

Espeacially the FPS of 3Dmark benching . make the FPS higher and more stable

but NB also have Cold boot issue . So u have to spend lots of time to taste SR-2 :shocked:

If i use only one VGA Card and CPU Water Cooling

which board give me high BCLK

Gigabyte X58A-UD7 or Asus Rampage III Extreme ?

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Originally Posted by nickshih

ya , my good R3E all 1.04G

Chill Coldbug always make the offset voltage having some problem

Something like u set 1.7v in BIOS , but u only get 1.5~1.6v

and Some Chill Coldbug will make ur CPU coldbug moving .....

U can replace the mobo with ASUS , if u have such mobo with defective chill chip :up:

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wow!

you've shown the light:up:

thanks nick and bodar

.i'll try to insulate like bodar..it does help then...:up:

I checkd my rev1 REX3(retail products ver) BCLK limit on air.
The mobo PCB rev is 1.04G, production month is 2010/06.

http://psycho999.blog38.fc2.com/blog-entry-310.html

BCLK=243.8MHz, QPI≒4400MHz
mobo cooling is only stock cooler.
I think rev1 is not so bad.

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Originally Posted by brolloks

It shows up in CPUZ as Rev 1.xx or 2.xx under the motherboard tab...it is also noted on the board or box

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I think its not noted on box & PCB.
rev2 mobo is also PCB marking is 1.04G.
Box has not any rev #.

That's some nice BCLK with high QPI . :D

Did you test highest spi32m BCLK ???

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Originally Posted by Stelios

That's some nice BCLK with high QPI . :D

Did you test highest spi32m BCLK ???

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I am very sorry, it just tested only high QPI BCLK limit.
For your reference, my 980X SuperPI 32m result.

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...in_21sec_641ms

QPI≒4000MHz, BCLK≒180MHz.
It's not my ACE chip, just test new chip internal clock.