X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[bigslappy]

here's the NewEgg sale link on the G.Skill DDR2-1066


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231166

[bigslappy]

OK I'm up for this !! doing it right now .....
....... will report back in a few ....
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;p

[bigslappy]

0406 seems ta work, but no bugs to speak of !!
it came back as higher o/c than what i had before , with the settings that were on before .....soo i've been tryin' for higher but still workin' it 4.18 Ghz at one point but not stable in everest at full throttle .. 3.6 stable is easy .. gonna get back to 4 as before , putting the G.Skill's 1066 in right now as we speak see what that does any suggestions most welcome

[GAR]

I've got 8 GB's of that stuff in both my R/F & P5E stable as you can get bullet proof GOOD STUFF ....
they will get warm if O/C slightly but a fan will solve that Pronto !

PPl here also run the 1066 version of this stuff also no problemo in fact i just got some 8 GB of the ddr2-1066 of that flavor of G.Skills that i'm installing as we speak NewEgg has them on A Huge price drop right now. Do It ! Pull the Trigger on them you will not regret it .....

good to hear

[bigslappy]

Hey what's a rounding error in Prime mean ?

[003]

Your OC is unstable.

[bigslappy]

Your OC is unstable.

yeah , thought that's what it was ... I'll keep tryn' .. i'm stable at 3.6 but was tryin to get to near 4,0 I did at 3.99 on the older Bios maybe i'll go back & see if it will work agin
thanx 003
the G.Skills 1066 work great .. gonna stick the ddr2-1000's on the other R/F MoBo

[GAR]

Are the g.skill 8500's better than the 8000's, do they use the same ic's, i just ordered the 8000's i didnt even see the 8500's for 5 bucks more, it hasnt shipped yet, should i cancel and order the 8500's???

[Takle]

They 0406 bios seems to work fine, but it doesn’t fix my memory problem

Hey guys,

Just wondering what kind of NB temps you are getting on this board. I recently took the stock HS off the board and installed an Enzotech SL1 on the SB and an HR05/SLI/IFX on the north bridge. My SB temps went down 10C but my NB temps seem to have stayed about the same. The NB idles at 47C and Load 55C. I was trying to get this thing running where the NB would never get hotter then 50C.
I am using MX-2 on both chipsets, my question is for anyone that us using the HR-05 on you NB what kind of temps do you get with a 80mm fan mounted on it and how much thermal paste did you use? I did the old pea size dot in the center with the squish and twist technique. I thinking maybe I did not get enough MX-2 where it counts, possibly I need to do the line technique. I have read alot of comments from guys that have this heatsink and all of them boast about low temps, so idk
Any Info would be appreciated!
Thanks, Filthy

Im also interested in this - I would be really great to know if it's worth it to put some proper cooling on that NB.

[RealTelstar]

Are the g.skill 8500's better than the 8000's, do they use the same ic's, i just ordered the 8000's i didnt even see the 8500's for 5 bucks more, it hasnt shipped yet, should i cancel and order the 8500's???

Should allow for a little more OC because of the 8 layer pcb. For 5$ i would have taken the 8500 for sure.

[DEFLORATOR]

Bios 0406 is completely incomaptible with Adaptec Raid Controller 3405. Computer won't boot with "CPU init" message on LCD poster. It took me hours to isolate the problem. I had to disassemble the whole system to understand that Adaptec controller was a problem. I already decided that I killed my RF during flashing, and even went to shop and bought Celeron 420 to try another CPU instead of Q9450. Nothing helped till I removed Adaptec card. Uff...tired of all these things..

[DEFLORATOR]

Should allow for a little more OC because of the 4 layer pcb. For 5$ i would have taken the 8500 for sure.

4 layer PCB is really poor, this used for cheap DRAM only. For example, my 2048mb OCZ sticks have 8 layers

[GAR]

Should allow for a little more OC because of the 4 layer pcb. For 5$ i would have taken the 8500 for sure.

ok i got the 8500's

[Abducted]

They 0406 bios seems to work fine, but it doesn’t fix my memory problem



Im also interested in this - I would be really great to know if it's worth it to put some proper cooling on that NB.

Maybe this applies to you too: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...7&#post3043117

[Rickpatbrown]

I posted earlier the specifics http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...181921&page=20

ASUS sent me a new motherboard (thanks ASUS ). Crucial sent me new RAM (thanks Crucial) . I'm still having memtest errors .

I increased tRFC as Reatlelstar suggested. I dropped timings to 5-5-5-14 and had tRFC up to maximum, around 132 if I recall correctly. This is at 800mhz.

It's starting to look like the RAM just isn't compatible. The DDR2 800 2x2Gb Ballistix aren't on the QVL for the Rampage, but the 2x1Gb Ballistix are. I've talked to Crucial and they have mentioned that they did test the RAM on the Rampage (at least one of the customer service reps mentioned this, I don't know how accurate this info is.) I haven't talked to Crucial since yesterday. Thirty minutes on hold sucks on a cell phone.

Is there anything that you guys can see that I am overlooking.

I'm probably just gonna get some G.Skill RAM since everyone else is doing it (peer pressure).

Do you think Crucial can give me a refund since there product doesn't work (it's way past the 30 day mark)? Would it be ethical to sell them when I'm not 100% sure that the Ballistix are good?

[bigslappy]

I posted earlier the specifics http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...181921&page=20

ASUS sent me a new motherboard (thanks ASUS ).

It's starting to look like the RAM just isn't compatible.

I'm probably just gonna get some G.Skill RAM since everyone else is doing it (peer pressure).

Would it be ethical to sell them when I'm not 100% sure that the Ballistix are good?

sell them they should be fine

get the G.Skill as the sale ends soon

[Shadowthor]

It seems the G.Skill has the best luck so far with the Rampage. So I'm assuming the 0406 bios increase fsb overclocking (from above post)?

[Zucker2k]

Yer Mad ?
........I just got my G.Skill 's ddr2-1066 from UPS at the higher price the day of the NewEgg price drop..

Mind's Eye seeing $60 cash just flushed away !


Oh Well WTF .......

Call Newegg with your order info. they'll refund you the $60. You can thank me later. Cheers!

[RealTelstar]

4 layer PCB is really poor, this used for cheap DRAM only. For example, my 2048mb OCZ sticks have 8 layers

It was obviously a typo, i meant 8 layers vs 6 layers for the pc-8000.

[GAR]

Can i use my X-FI titanium in the black pci-e 1.0 slot??? or is that only for the supreme fx audio card??

[Shadowthor]

I think you can, its just a normal pci-e slot.

[RealTelstar]

edit. nevermind

[Bootsy]

Can i use my X-FI titanium in the black pci-e 1.0 slot??? or is that only for the supreme fx audio card??

Yes you can, I am running mine there now with no problems.

[sobih25]

quite good 3d stable fsb with 0406 bios. aircooled ofc.

[RealTelstar]

Which improvements brought 0406?
Please post your findings...