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

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Originally Posted by CARLOS*A1

Sorry for my bad English, and thanks for trying to help.

I use the PCI Express ports 1 and 3 and the computer restarts after 2 minutes.

The only way to hold the 2 gtx 295 was placed on ports 1 and 2 being very junstas.

I think it can be given the post pictures of your 16x and 16x ports 1-3.

It may be something to the picture that this bloked few buttons and some jumper.

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do you have the two 4-pin power plugs for the pcie slots pluged in by slot #1 and last slot#7
for two gtx295's it may need them

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Originally Posted by bill_d

do you have the two 4-pin power plugs for the pcie slots pluged in by slot #1 and last slot#7
for two gtx295's it may need them

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Yes, good idea. For GTX 295 it is probably a good idea to have them pluged, though I know for a fact that
it would work with at least one. There was a girl here on this thread that had them working with only one.

So, we are talking about the EZ-PLUG_1 and EZ_PLUG_2. Look in the Instruction book on Page 2-46.
Make sure you have them conected. Also make sure you have a strong Power Supply Unit.
A single GTX 295 need from 31-35 Amps of current on the 12 volt rail. Multiply that by two.

Anyone managed to go over 230 blck on this board under water cooling?

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Originally Posted by playground

Anyone managed to go over 230 blck on this board under water cooling?

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yes, with 980 with any problem with ht on and NO slow mode at 245/250 bclk, and with bloomfield 930 but no stable at 230 bclk

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Originally Posted by playground

Anyone managed to go over 230 blck on this board under water cooling?

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Only for Pi 1M - bclk 233 HT off. I can boot up to 232 and with TurboV 1MHz more :(.
http://a.imageshack.us/img375/7656/pi8219.th.jpg

for all leechers here in forum

Bios 0011


http://filedeck.net/en-us/files/06K3...-ASUS-0011.rar

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Originally Posted by Fire4Wire

for all leechers here in forum

Bios 0011


http://filedeck.net/en-us/files/06K3...-ASUS-0011.rar

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Ok. Great, but what does this do better (fix or improve) ?

fixes some oc staion issues

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Originally Posted by playground

Anyone managed to go over 230 blck on this board under water cooling?

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http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/5...xbclktest1.jpg
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5205/qpitest2.jpg

As above, my REX3 x36 multi QPI limit & my 980X QPI limit.:D
These result are just Air cooling.

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Originally Posted by Scerate

but i have a question, i won't be unpolite no i even appreciate it that you helping me that much, but why should i give the processor 4,2Ghz ? 4Ghz is enough for me atm cause if i even give him that speed, would be cause of C-States that if i do something one one core only resulting in 22x200 (4,4Ghz)? My rig is perfectly stable now but the only culprit is this x22 multi which gives me headache cause then everything fails, i even tried LinX with only one core resulting like i said in Bsod 101. :(

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You are right, sorry, but 200x21 is so nice and round number. :D
I was thinking you want to go higher, as you are testing 406X MHz and 409X MHz IIRC. Anyway, try 200x20 and if it gives you trouble try 191x21, or 210x19. Be sure to set CPU multi manually and not leave it on auto, as I never seen it go over set value, at least on this board. What I'm saying is if you set it to 21x it should stay @ 21x and not raise one core to 22x.

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Originally Posted by Scerate

and btw lowering CPU PLL even helped me lowering my volts 2 notches, cause first i was running 21x191 ~ 4 Ghz. If i set in to default settings 1.8 i got LinX "stopped upon error" warnings. First i set it to only 1.5v but now i lowered it to 1.4 cause i think it even lowered my temps 1-2 °C :)

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Good for you. :up: It never helped me OC, only made it worse and that is on Xeon W3540.

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Originally Posted by Scerate

Edit: I have just tried your optimized template with 4.2 Ghz but i think atm it's a no go, cause i stopped testing after i put in about 1.36v it even then crashed 0x050 BsoD but temps rose to about 93 °C which is damn hot, even now on evening here (have 29 °C room temp lol) but your Loadline Calibration tip is pretty awesome but rose my temps about 3 °C per core with LinX @ 203x20, but i was able to lower the v-core a bit :)

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CPU LLC helps voltage stay spot on, so usually you can lower voltage, as it doesn't drop under load any more.

thats what my board can do with Bloom's. SlowMode =/ Ill run LinX later on...

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Originally Posted by donmarkoni

Be sure to set CPU multi manually and not leave it on auto, as I never seen it go over set value, at least on this board. What I'm saying is if you set it to 21x it should stay @ 21x and not raise one core to 22x.

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Damn than i have a creepy board cause i set it manually to 21x but the x22 or to be exactly the x21.9 multi kicks in :p: but no problem right now im running 203x20 @ 1.3000v set @ bios, but right now im playing around a bit with cpu pll to get 1.29x or even 1.285x stable :cool:

Edit: @ donmarkoni

i owe you one, got stable @ 1.270v first with 1.84 CPU PLL, think 1.3-1.4 was bit too low, and now i tried CPU PLL 1.7 and yeah atm 10passes stable which looks promising, most of the time i pass the first 5 LinX runs the other 20 runs stable too :). Idle temps are pretty low now 36-38-34-32

HA! i was lost to EVGA... (had a RIIE before) but i found my way back to my beloved asus and ze rampage III ... Yoohoo

From what ive read so far it is a good board !

Good to be back !!

...and this is my board with Bloomfield:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/154...lk240spi32.jpg

Can't run LinX, as my Xeon is on the shelf right now. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by AceBaran

HA! i was lost to EVGA... (had a RIIE before) but i found my way back to my beloved asus and ze rampage III ... Yoohoo

From what ive read so far it is a good board !

Good to be back !!

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Good to have you back! :welcome:

So if this helps just one person its worth a post,
yesterday windows had an optional update (win 7 64) available which is a "Promise ACHI raid controller driver" .....hmm no idea what this is but foolishly I installed it, upon re start my ICH10R raid array was missing............oh dear !
luckily restore got me up and running but for some if the bootdrive is on the intel controller it could be messy, fortunately my boot drive at this time is back on the marvell.

donmarkoni - can you post up ur BIOS settings please? Really interested in ur settings. Just cant get over 220 blck stable. Thank u very much in advance.

Even though this memory isn't on the Asus Rampage III Extreme list will it still work?

CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) 8-9-8-24
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145318

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Originally Posted by USFORCES

Even though this memory isn't on the Asus Rampage III Extreme list will it still work?

CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) 8-9-8-24
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145318

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Yes it will work :up:

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Originally Posted by kurumi_Japan

As above, my REX3 x36 multi QPI limit & my 980X QPI limit.:D
These result are just Air cooling.

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Nice bclk on air kurumi :yepp:

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Originally Posted by kill_a_wat

Yes it will work :up:

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Thank you :)

Don, how high can you get with QPI Slow Mode disabled? I noticed in your screenie that it was enabled.

Anyone know what the best full board water block is for the R3E? Thanks

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Originally Posted by SkOrPn

Anyone know what the best full board water block is for the R3E? Thanks

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I think most of us have the EK Full board.

EK waterblock here too, temps stay nicely around 35-39°C level

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

EK waterblock here too, temps stay nicely around 35-39°C level

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Ok thanks guys, EK it is then.... Does the Acetal provide any benefit over the all metal one? The black one looks better to me....