UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[ReVolut1on]

Um.. What kind of bios socket is there on R2E? That should work as long as it's a PLCC chip.

[Astratuner]

Asus just release a new official 0805 Bios. Added support for DDR3 2000. It's up on the front page if any of you want it. Straight from Asus's FTP

It may be worth it to some of you who are experiencing the cold boot to give it a try.

Nice but maybe only for the ones who might risk their cpu apperantly.


Ow yes and can I ask you guys where on what ftp you find these new bios beta's? path to the beta files would be nice to!

[bmilos]

Nice but maybe only for the ones who might risk their cpu apperantly.

Why would bios 0804 be a risk to the CPU? Did I miss something?

I used 0804 for over a week. No problems with my CPU

[bmilos]

I'm thinking about RMA'ing my board because of the problem I had a few days/week ago. I am also thinking about selling it off because of the RMA process of my 4870x2. I sent it on the 8th, 2-day air, yet they are claiming the didnt receive it until the 16th. So, with 5-10 business days to RMA it, I won't have it until probably the 5th of January. that's almost a MONTH to replace a GPU. I'm really angry with them right now.

[Markmb]

Heya all.

after I read the whole tread a couple of times trying to solve my own cold boot problem I suddenly realised that maybe my 12 GB Dominator 1600 Mhz got to much juice. I then sat the voltage to 1.55 and now im running strong on 0805 Bios with 12 GB 1603 mhz Dominator.

Just wanted to share my findings.
Hope it helps =)

[scaramonga]

Why would bios 0804 be a risk to the CPU? Did I miss something?

I used 0804 for over a week. No problems with my CPU

I'd like to know that too?

[FuriousSalesman]

I might be silly saying this but could the Cold Boot problem be an issue with grounding? I had a Foxconn board that would boot on carpet but not in a case.

[skypx]

Heya all.

after I read the whole tread a couple of times trying to solve my own cold boot problem I suddenly realised that maybe my 12 GB Dominator 1600 Mhz got to much juice. I then sat the voltage to 1.55 and now im running strong on 0805 Bios with 12 GB 1603 mhz Dominator.

Just wanted to share my findings.
Hope it helps =)

Sounds promising... 2 questions:
1. are you running your ram at default settings?
2. Could you please describe your cold boot problem in detail?


Thanks.

[skypx]

I might be silly saying this but could the Cold Boot problem be an issue with grounding? I had a Foxconn board that would boot on carpet but not in a case.

In my case, no. This was one of the first things the asus tech suggested I check so I set-up the mobo outside the case with the same results.

[dejanh]

Well, I got the RMA board today and...I am extremely disappointed. The RMA board has the QPI/DRAM voltage stuck at 1.46V, the little joystick is broken (goes right, but not always left), and the board seems to be older than my current board even though it was a retail replacement. Sending it back to Asus, they said they will send me another one instead. At least they are picking it up tomorrow and shipping it back at their own cost.

The RMA board was part 90-MIB6L0-G0AAY00Z and my original (now better working board) was part 90-MIB6L0-G0AAY10Z

I'm kind of losing hope for this board working good overall...

[skypx]

Well, I got the RMA board today and...I am extremely disappointed. The RMA board has the QPI/DRAM voltage stuck at 1.46V, the little joystick is broken (goes right, but not always left), and the board seems to be older than my current board even though it was a retail replacement. Sending it back to Asus, they said they will send me another one instead. At least they are picking it up tomorrow and shipping it back at their own cost.

The RMA board was part 90-MIB6L0-G0AAY00Z and my original (now better working board) was part 90-MIB6L0-G0AAY10Z

I'm kind of losing hope for this board working good overall...

I am so sorry, but this is why I refuse to RMA anything to any company. It seems when a new product is sent in a used one is sent back. Before I RMA the mobo via Asus, I'll send it back to newegg for a refund.

[dejanh]

I am so sorry, but this is why I refuse to RMA anything to any company. It seems when a new product is sent in a used one is sent back. Before I RMA the mobo via Asus, I'll send it back to newegg for a refund.

Well, unfortunately my window for replacement with the place I bought it from expired two weeks ago. I have no choice but to go with Asus now. However, if their next board turns out to be a POS I will have to keep the current board and send them back the replacement...

[bmilos]

Well, unfortunately my window for replacement with the place I bought it from expired two weeks ago. I have no choice but to go with Asus now. However, if their next board turns out to be a POS I will have to keep the current board and send them back the replacement...

Same situation here. I am worried about RMA'ing the board and having them give me what's laying around too. I'm worried about my 4870x2 too.

This should not be how the process works. They *should* send you out the newest product comparable to what you purchased. It really doesn't affect their bottom line, and would keep customers coming back. But alas.

I still have a feeling that the overclocking limit has something to do with the memory. Im really thinking about going to the Dominator GT when they are released... Im curious to see if underclocking strong sticks would help.

[dejanh]

That's a lot of money to pay for underclocking, but I guess it is worth a shot

In terms of the RMA, if they send me a dud again I will just ship it back to them and keep what I have. I do not have particularly serious problems with my board other than I have that cold boot issue, in some combinations DRAM channels disappear, and IOH voltage cannot be adjusted + a bunch of minor issues. I do hope my SLI works as I did not have an opportunity to try it yet cause that would be the game killer for me. If I run into SLI trouble on the X58 I'm going back to AMD.

[BringerOdeath]

I have run SLI in all 3 slots with no problems! I have 2 9800gx2's in quad sli and at first I had one in the top blue slot and one in the bottom white slot. I later put the second card in the second blue slot and it also worked just fine. What I am trying to figure out is why with TURBO on and HT on, my cpu will instantly back down to 4ghz from 4.2 ghz when I start prime95. With HT off this does not happen and the temps look fine. Is it related to the voltage? Does anyone else have this problem, as this is the only problem I am having....

[dejanh]

I have run SLI in all 3 slots with no problems! I have 2 9800gx2's in quad sli and at first I had one in the top blue slot and one in the bottom white slot. I later put the second card in the second blue slot and it also worked just fine. What I am trying to figure out is why with TURBO on and HT on, my cpu will instantly back down to 4ghz from 4.2 ghz when I start prime95. With HT off this does not happen and the temps look fine. Is it related to the voltage? Does anyone else have this problem, as this is the only problem I am having....

Same thing here. Running 23 multiplier on the 940 with turbo on, turbo goes off as soon as I fire up Prime. There seem to be two states where the CPU clocks down, and this is what is being tripped. Unfortunately, I did not find a way to prevent this. Turning all throttling options does nothing.

[BringerOdeath]

Does it throttle down when you have HT off? Mine only happens when HT is on.....

[ReVolut1on]

Omg this is really a nightmare! Cant believe asus is doing this to you dejanh and skypx have you tried removing bios chips?

[nordien]

Since last week i'm playing around with a R2E setup. No cold boot issues whatsoever. The only strange thing is that with my setup i cant go over 14 gb/s bandwith by using Everest Ultimate. Sisoft gives my 27 gb/s mem bandwith. Seems my i7 920 does like to get to 200 bclk. The CPU is a 3837A507......



So far this setup seems allright:

20 * 201 bclk in bios
Turbo on
HTT off
All other CPU settings off
vcore 1.35 in bios
Vqpi 1.35 in bios
The rest on auto
Mem DDR1600 @ 8-8-8-24-1
LLC enabled
Full phase
All the other settings on auto

I think the R2E is overvolting the vcore and undervolting the vqpi. See the screenshot. I have set 1.35 vcore in the bios, i'm getting 1.39v. As for vqpi i have set 1.35 in bios and i'm getting 1.31v.........

[BringerOdeath]

Hmmmm, I will have to try your settings since I have similar components.....I did notice the board overvolts. 1.5v gives me 1.54v. I didn't check the dram/qpi voltage though, Everest is wrong on the voltages then....

[jasonelmore]

Those of you who are experiencing there turbo mode turning off with prime.. well it's supposed to do that. Prime is putting all core's to 100%. Turbo mode only works on single threaded applications. It overclocks one core and shuts the other 3 down. Your board is performing just perfectly because this is the way intel designed turbo mode. If you run a single threaded app like SuperPi, You'll see that your Turbo mode will work every time because it's a single threaded app. (Unless you have manually set affinity to all cores in the process manager).

And as for the RMA. This is a standard practice with all motherboard manufacturer's. If you RMA your board, you most likely will get a refurbished one back as a replacement. Thats why if your within 30 days of buying the product, you should always RMA to the reseller such as newegg or tigerdirect. Biostar, Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, all do the same thing. Send refurbs back.

@Bringerofdeath- When you switched your second GX2 from the bottom white slot to the second blue slot, Did you see a performance increase at all? The bottom white slot only runs at a max of 8X so I'm just wondering what kind of difference you saw.

Thanks

[BringerOdeath]

Those of you who are experiencing there turbo mode turning off with prime.. well it's supposed to do that. Prime is putting all core's to 100%. Turbo mode only works on single threaded applications. It overclocks one core and shuts the other 3 down. Your board is performing just perfectly because this is the way intel designed turbo mode. If you run a single threaded app like SuperPi, You'll see that your Turbo mode will work every time because it's a single threaded app. (Unless you have manually set affinity to all cores in the process manager).

And as for the RMA. This is a standard practice with all motherboard manufacturer's. If you RMA your board, you most likely will get a refurbished one back as a replacement. Thats why if your within 30 days of buying the product, you should always RMA to the reseller such as newegg or tigerdirect. Biostar, Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, all do the same thing. Send refurbs back.

@Bringerofdeath- When you switched your second GX2 from the bottom white slot to the second blue slot, Did you see a performance increase at all? The bottom white slot only runs at a max of 8X so I'm just wondering what kind of difference you saw.

Thanks

Oh, ok, but it only happens when HT is on....I noticed that one core completes tests faster than the other though. About the bottom slot, I saw almost no difference in 3dmark06 scores or my games. Maybe it's because it pci-e2.0 slot it isn't affected much, though I did see fitseries saying it was bottlenecking his 3 gtx260's compared to his 790i thats 3x16x pcie.

[dejanh]

Those of you who are experiencing there turbo mode turning off with prime.. well it's supposed to do that. Prime is putting all core's to 100%. Turbo mode only works on single threaded applications. It overclocks one core and shuts the other 3 down. Your board is performing just perfectly because this is the way intel designed turbo mode. If you run a single threaded app like SuperPi, You'll see that your Turbo mode will work every time because it's a single threaded app. (Unless you have manually set affinity to all cores in the process manager).

And as for the RMA. This is a standard practice with all motherboard manufacturer's. If you RMA your board, you most likely will get a refurbished one back as a replacement. Thats why if your within 30 days of buying the product, you should always RMA to the reseller such as newegg or tigerdirect. Biostar, Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, all do the same thing. Send refurbs back.

@Bringerofdeath- When you switched your second GX2 from the bottom white slot to the second blue slot, Did you see a performance increase at all? The bottom white slot only runs at a max of 8X so I'm just wondering what kind of difference you saw.

Thanks

I can assure you that this is wrong. Turbo will run when using the CPU at 100% with all 8 threads. I will show it to you later with a screenshot. For me it is the temps that trigger turbo shut-off. Hit 85C and bam.

Also, the board I got was brand new, retail, but obviously something wrong with it. If you look closely you can tell nothing was ever screwed or plugged into it. It was new, but faulty.

[jasonelmore]

Disable CPU TM in the bios and it will quite shutting your turbo down. Turbo is only on one core tho. Not all 4.

CPU-Z may tell you it is all four but it's just not reading it right.

[yup]

Can't download bios 0805