X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[bigslappy]

Well the Q9400 that I have been using seems to oc as good as or a little better than the Q6600 cpu's. Tomorrow I will finally have my hands on a Q9650 that I have been saving for. I am hoping it will be my first cpu to hit 4GHZ. I will be running it on this rampage mobo. I will let you know how it goes. So far I am very pleased with this mobo.

PM me & i'll send my settings for 4Ghz it was easy ! with that MoBo & Q9650

[mikeyakame]

what is the average fsb that I should expect on air with a dual core?

how about with a quad core?

how good is the crossfire performance compared to a p45 motherboard (like p5q deluxe) using 2 4850s?

is the 16-phase on the p5q deluxe better for a higher cpu overclock?

1. Have a read through the thread and see what others have achieved. Don't be lazy and make users repeat themselves for everybody who is too lazy to use search.

2. Performance is better. Both slots at 16x electrical on the X48, where as the P45 drops each slot to 8x electrical on dual card cause the P45 only has 16 PCI-E 2.0 electrical lanes.

3. VRM is plenty fine on the RF for high dual core FSB, i'm positive many guys can push 600MHz FSB. The P5Q has a slightly stronger VRM when it comes to OC'ing quads.

[bigslappy]

I hear that some PPl are having problems with 16 phase power & the Quads ...

[mikeyakame]

I hear that some PPl are having problems with 16 phase power & the Quads ...

Quads have problems with everything! LOL, the RE and Blackops seem to be the best two boards out there for Quads and silly high FSB.

[Catz]

Ok asus is starting to piss me off badly!

I bought my Rampage Formula 2 months ago knowing that it is a great motherboard. When i received my board i used it for a week out of the case to get to know the motherboard. After that i started building it into my cosmos s. Guess what?! It blew a capacitor (or how you might call it) and the entire board quit working (after hitting the on switch!)

So ofcourse i rma'd the motherboard and this is the response i got from them:

Because of faulty overclocking we can not repair your board or send you a new one.

Well.... that's all good if i had actually overclocked on the board... but i didn't even get to that point!

Here is a photo of the chip that was blown up:



Is there any way i can directly contact asus instead of contacting my distributor that contacts asus for me... I dont' really get the feeling they are trying very hard to convince asus that this is not my fault....

[mikeyakame]

what about sending their taiwan branch an email?

[003]

Contact motherboardpro, when I had my LLC issue, I contacted them, and they put me in direct contact with a very helpful asus rep. I even said I was overclocking, and they were fine with that, and said that they set up a system similar to mine and used the same bios settings (overclocked!) but could not reproduce my issue. In the end, I got an advance RMA and it worked out perfectly.

[Catz]

I LOVE THIS FORUM!

Somehow my shop owner read this page and got a little scared that i might put their name up here.

So he made a call with asus and my motherboard is not rma'ed and a new one is on it's way (will be send out tomorrow).

Thanks for the help guys!

[bigslappy]

I LOVE THIS FORUM!

Somehow my shop owner read this page and got a little scared that i might put their name up here.

So he made a call with asus and my motherboard is not rma'ed and a new one is on it's way (will be send out tomorrow).

Thanks for the help guys!

Amazing the power of the XS forums !
As long as we keep it civil & repectful in our complaints about Vendors . By stating fully the whole facts from the start , asking about remedies on how to solve problems,It really does make a difference . The best advertizing is word of mouth & that is a 2-way street both negative & positive . Any Vendor that wants to keep customers coming back will heed this forum . As i've RMA'ed a R/F back to Asus & had a new MoBo back in my hands in less than 7 days
Good job on everyone's part , including the Vendor , it's good business to support the product you sell & it's good For businesses/buyers to report problems supported with facts .
@ Remcokatz >> Great to hear you have a MoBo coming to you ..

[Catz]

I'm quite happy about it yes.

[ElAguila]

I sent you a pm bigslappy. I got my Q9650 installed and i got it stable at 4.02GHZ. But I had to set the vcore to 1.3625v(reading @ 1.3v) to overcome the vdroop(drops to 1.26-1.27) when under load. I set LLC to auto. I may try it with the vdroop control enabled.

[bigslappy]

here's my SS counldn't PM

LLC is disabled

this an early O/C
as i haven't really had the time to fine tune this O/C .
I'm really letting it burn-in for awhile @ 4ghz
I suggest u let the CPU burn in a few day's before pushing it HARD too early ' I let mine idle at stock settings for the 1st 24 hours' or u could damage it
;p

CPUZ show a clock speed as 4050.1MHz
multi 9
bus speed 450
FSB 1800
real temp 33,29,33,33 idle ambiant 26.2 c
core Voltage 1.336 idle
realtemp load temps 46,40,43,43 prime 95 ambiant temp 26.2 c
core volts under prime 95 load 1.296
LLc disabled
memory
dram freq. 450.0
FSB;dram 1 to 1
clocks as set in bios
I can't stress enuff not to push the CPU until u burn it in for awhile
these are some Cherry CPU's coming out of Intel right NOW ! & they are not gonna be around very long as Intel has already said that these are to be phased out after SOON the Core i7 chips hit the market


check out this thread on the News forum

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=202014

Intel is sayin they don't want to compete with it's self on some of their best chips with the NEW Core i7's

[phillai]

I got a strange problem, after weeks of stability on my computer, I noticed this, quite recently.
When I plug my ipod touch in (or take it out), it crashes my system.
Any ideas? I've not overclocked my PC at all...
Thanks.

[Brama]

I got a strange problem, after weeks of stability on my computer, I noticed this, quite recently.
When I plug my ipod touch in (or take it out), it crashes my system.
Any ideas? I've not overclocked my PC at all...
Thanks.

Have you upgraded iTunes to 8.01?
It seems that some driver in Itunes 8.00 is hurting many configurations.
Just a suggestion.

[GAR]

Quick question to anyone with a crossfire setup on this board, similar setup to mine. I can run 3.6GHZ prime blend stable with single card, but when i put the other card in, my NB temps rise and 3.2ghz is all prime blend wants to be stable at. I know NB temp raise is from crossfire, but temps are fine, i have 4 120mm fans on the side of my HAF 932, also the NB is cooled by a Thermaltake Spirit II cooler, any ideas??? thanks.

[mikeyakame]

more vNB? lol and loosen Performance Level by 1.

[003]

Quick question to anyone with a crossfire setup on this board, similar setup to mine. I can run 3.6GHZ prime blend stable with single card, but when i put the other card in, my NB temps rise and 3.2ghz is all prime blend wants to be stable at. I know NB temp raise is from crossfire, but temps are fine, i have 4 120mm fans on the side of my HAF 932, also the NB is cooled by a Thermaltake Spirit II cooler, any ideas??? thanks.

Your rig screams for water. If you get 3.6GHz on air with a q9450, you just might hit 4ghz on water, with lower volts to boot (on the nb at least).

[JoOs7eR]

Hi Guys... Is There Any Improvement For 0410Bios

Currently Using 0407

Thanks...

[GAR]

more vNB? lol and loosen Performance Level by 1.

I tried that, ill mess with it some more today after work, see what i can come up with, its very wierd to me, but im sure it has something to do with the nb, when i raise the voltage to around 1.49v it fails instantly, when i lower it, it fails within 2 minutes, so higher voltage is a no go, very mysterious behavior.

Also im using Bios 0308 as its the best for memory performance. I have tried 0408 results are the same. Any help from someone who has dealt with the same situation is much appreciated, thanks.

[phillai]

Have you upgraded iTunes to 8.01?
It seems that some driver in Itunes 8.00 is hurting many configurations.
Just a suggestion.

Nope, I haven't but I will give that a try, thank you very much!

[Brama]

I get from Asus support the new 501 BIOS that would correct the "no boot" issue with many PCIe RAID disk controllers.
I will test it tonight and let you know.
Probably it wil be published very soon in usual channels.

[SoLoR]

I get from Asus support the new 501 BIOS that would correct the "no boot" issue with many PCIe RAID disk controllers.
I will test it tonight and let you know.
Probably it wil be published very soon in usual channels.

cant you upload it somewhere for rest of us ? ;P

[Brama]

cant you upload it somewhere for rest of us ? ;P

By sure, as soon as I tested it on my rig.

Expect the link in 3 hours

[chris8325]

i also would appreciate if you could share this bios with us
- even it does not work as expected for you

(having lot of troubles with my adaptec controller)

[Brama]

i also would appreciate if you could share this bios with us
- even it does not work as expected for you

(having lot of troubles with my adaptec controller)

Here the link!

By the way, it solved my issue with my PCIe RAID disk controller.

I haven't any responsability for troubles or damages caused by this BIOS in your systems.