UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[connector]

I'm not sure I understand your question. You stated before that your issue was that you could not POST at over 160 BCLK. From what you just said it sounds like you can POST over 160 BCLK but only with CPU speeds of 4-4.2 GHz. I just need a clear description of what is going on here.

Ok, i did the test with your values:

"Multiplier: 21
BCLK: 165
Uncore: 3300 MHz
QPI Data Link Rate: 5955 MT/s
Ram: DDR3-1650 MHz
Ram timings: 9-9-9-24 rest on auto

Vcore: 1.35v
QPI/DRAM (Vtt): 1.30v
Dram: 1.65v"

and i can't post... I don't understand why, if i go over 160 in BCLK with a QPI Frequency fixed to "SLOW MODE" i can't post...

For clarify, I thought I had a problem with the QPI Frequency wich seemed not to change the multiplier (despite i've changed in BIOS)... but thanks to your help, i discovered that the BCLK over 160s may be the "issue"... i don't understand why i can't post with 200 BCLK.

If i use 160/156 x 27 (regardless my QPI Frequency), i can reach 4.200Mhz or more speed without problems (or using multiplier 133 x 32 for example). All my system is stable with those values, good gaming, temperatures below 80º on hottest core with PRIME 95, etc...

So i have 3 questions to be resolved...

1) My "dilemma" is to use 200 or 160 in BCLK...
2) My "question" is why i can't set 200 in my BCLK if i don't change my QPI Frequency to "SLOW MODE"...
3) and my "problem", is there something damaged in my hardware?, should i worry? or if i can reach 4.200Mhz with 150-160 BCLK i have enough power to move my 5970s

Sorry for make a post so long, sincerely, i appreciate your help because i'm tired of looking for answers about...

thank you again for your help, awesome thread and great forum

[zsamz_]

connector somethin is deffinatelly wrong

worst board i ever had did 214blk .
funny it was the rampage III
even my old rexII gene did 215
reaseat cpu and chek pins

[connector]

connector somethin is deffinatelly wrong

worst board i ever had did 214blk .
funny it was the rampage III
even my old rexII gene did 215
reaseat cpu and chek pins

Do you have done this with an EE (975)?... if something was wrong i couldn't play nothing on my system... or getting good scores in Vantage, 3DMark2011, etc...

[SwIeRsZcZ]

Should be LoadLineCalibration Enabled / Disabled ??

What I see when I enable it then my vdroop is not noticable during stress [LinX] in CPU-Z , unfortunately in PC-Probe vcore rises from 1.41v to 1.48v . Then... should I believe pcprobe or cpu-z ?? ;/

[OnDborder]

Probe.
My vcore rises in cpu-z when enabled.

[CryptiK]

Well I picked up a R3E and EK-FB R3E, so I'll be moving over to that

[xpower]

i left it on auto and never see any noticable diffrence.
@ cryptik why u leaving us . good luck.

[CryptiK]

Just time for a change, had this setup running for ~18 months, and been on water almost 12 months. R3E and EK full cover block allows me to go full WC with a newer board. It gets pretty warm here in summer and the mobo PWM gets hot with a CPU at 4.3GHz + and the R3E's digi PWM is nice, as is the EK block!

The R2E is still a great 24/7 board, never had any issues with mine - it will be going into the gf's pc with my gem 920 replacing the X48 REX and Q9650.

[zsamz_]

Just time for a change, had this setup running for ~18 months, and been on water almost 12 months. R3E and EK full cover block allows me to go full WC with a newer board. It gets pretty warm here in summer and the mobo PWM gets hot with a CPU at 4.3GHz + and the R3E's digi PWM is nice, as is the EK block!

The R2E is still a great 24/7 board, never had any issues with mine - it will be going into the gf's pc with my gem 920 replacing the X48 REX and Q9650.

i really hope you get a good rexIII
i regrett the day i sold my rexII n bought a rexIII
my rexII was good for 229 blk and my rexIII was good for 114blk lol

[CryptiK]

114 BCLK? Think you meant 214 BLCK no?

In any case max BCLK doesn't matter to me, I'm running a W3570 This will be a 24/7 work/gaming system anyway.

[zsamz_]

114 BCLK? Think you meant 214 BLCK no?

In any case max BCLK doesn't matter to me, I'm running a W3570 This will be a 24/7 work/gaming system anyway.

yes lol 214

the rexIII made me wish i kept my 975 lol

[JoeBar]

In any case max BCLK doesn't matter to me, I'm running a W3570 This will be a 24/7 work/gaming system anyway.

Sad that u leave the RIIX club but happy for your new gear...

Tells us how it goes... Pics with block installed also...

[CryptiK]

yes lol 214

the rexIII made me wish i kept my 975 lol

Sad that u leave the RIIX club but happy for your new gear...

Tells us how it goes... Pics with block installed also...

Yes well there were some reports of it playing nice with GT's but not bloomfields, so I'll see how I go, I'm not anticipating any problems. The R2E has been a great workhorse, and did 240 BCLK 2D as well

Will post back once the new stuff arrives, and for sure I'll provide some hardware pr0n pics

I'll still be in the R2E club though, it will be moving into my 2nd pc the gf uses. She had a terrible old PC so I sold it and made a good one for her, first with my P5Q-D and 8400, then my X48 REX + Q9650 and now the R2E and my gem 920, so she gets an upgrade when I do. It's my spousal hardware management plan and it works flawlessly I must say

[JoeBar]

Lucky gf...

[CryptiK]

Ok R3E pr0n pics as promised

Some pics of getting it ready to install:

Prepping the board:




This kind of shocked me. There appeared to be grass and debris on the stock thermal pad! It's also a hack job in terms of pad cutting precision. Nice QC asus.




Block on the board




Ready to do the loop

[Leeghoofd]

Looking good man, cool times ahead

[xpower]

its a 8 power design to cpu. good luck with RP3 + Heineken :

[Nunzi]

how good does the i7 970 run on this board ?

Are there any problems I should be aware of?

Thanks

[zsamz_]

beautifull board cryptic
but to me it was 1 of the worst boards i ever had

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

mine was good for 216blck (R3E) but hopefully you get one with a good IOH.

[JoeBar]

Thanks for the pics Cryptik...

[Ezequiel18]

hi again guys im back here with some willing to go above the 4.2GHZ , Im specting to see 4.4ghz at least for 24/7 setup .

Right now im running 4.2 GHZ llc off , HT disabled with the following settings

tested a some LinX runs went and got a continuous rate of 61 GFLOPS at 181Secs each . no variations at least the runs i give.

My settings

Multi X21
BCLOCK 200
QPIV 1,35
CPU BIOS - 1,3750
CPU PLL 1,82
VRAM 1,65
ALL REF to +0MV
IOH 1,35V
IOH PCI V 1,51
ICH 1,14
ICH 1,51 1,51


i know most of you here are ppl that know very well how to overclock , and since that i would like to have some advices in order to reach higher clocks.

PD : also need some help with mem , since i always wanted to give them higher and better timings but i never understood how to. or how it worked.

*** one thing i forgot to mention is a very strange issue when i tried to downgrade Bios from 1802 to 1504 , i could do it with afudos by using a usb bootable but then when i started windows. i had only 4GB of ram , instead of 6GB that i currently have.

Then flashed back to 1914 and then memory came back. i believe this is nothing concerning a bent pin from the motherboard or nothing like that because it was the first time it happened without doing any changes to the mb so why this could happen?




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My Rig

CPU - i7 920 D0
MB - Asus Rampage II Extreme
MEM - 3 * 2GB GSKILL TRIDENT 2000 MHZ
CPU COOLER - TRUE 120 SFLEX 1900 RPM
CASE - HAF X
PSU - Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1000W
GPU - MSI NGTX570 TWIN FROZR II

[xpower]

@nunzi> this board can run on that cpu without any problem

[xpower]

need quick response please......
trying to test bclk, what things to consider? with 12 multi and ram with low freq.
need your input guys
thankx

[zsamz_]

need quick response please......
trying to test bclk, what things to consider? with 12 multi and ram with low freq.
need your input guys
thankx

i test max blk @ 19x never bothered with lower
ram lower frequency helps too