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

[Registered User]

EPU-6 Engine driver: http://drivers.windows9download.net/...ty-811684.html

It's for the R3BE, but it should also work w/ the regular R3E.

AI Charger works on my system, on all usb ports except the front panel headers.

If it's just downloading, add an OC profile that's actually an underclock profile.

Thanks zoson.

The Ai Charger now works on Windows 7, it didn't work on Windows 8.

I had tried the EPU-6 V1.02.04 and EPU-6 V1.03.04, both are working on Windows 7 but the Ai Nap function within the EPU-6 driver doesn't work on both of these two versions. But at least the EPU-6 chip on the Rampage III Extreme board now has a basic driver.

Does the version of the EPU-6 driver from the link given have working Ai Nap function?

[zoson]

Thanks zoson.

The Ai Charger now works on Windows 7, it didn't work on Windows 8.

I had tried the EPU-6 V1.02.04 and EPU-6 V1.03.04, both are working on Windows 7 but the Ai Nap function within the EPU-6 driver doesn't work on both of these two versions. But at least the EPU-6 chip on the Rampage III Extreme board now has a basic driver.

Does the version of the EPU-6 driver from the link given have working Ai Nap function?

Honestly I have no idea. I've never installed the EPU-6 driver as I run a high overclock and don't care about the power features.

Thought i'd chime in here that I built a computer for a friend yesterday that had some 8GB sticks. I popped them into my R3E to see if they'd work, and the machine would not post at all. No 8GB density sticks for us.

[Registered User]

Honestly I have no idea. I've never installed the EPU-6 driver as I run a high overclock and don't care about the power features.

Thought i'd chime in here that I built a computer for a friend yesterday that had some 8GB sticks. I popped them into my R3E to see if they'd work, and the machine would not post at all. No 8GB density sticks for us.

Rampage III Extreme supports up to 6 x DIMM, Max. 24GB as per Asus Rampage III Extreme website, 8GB module x 6 would be 48GB, I don't think it will be able to run with the 8GB module.

[zoson]

Rampage III Extreme supports up to 6 x DIMM, Max. 24GB as per Asus Rampage III Extreme website, 8GB module x 6 would be 48GB, I don't think it will be able to run with the 8GB module.

These numbers are rarely accurate. The x58 chipset supports 48GB.

FYI, my S2NSE was able to support larger dimms than ASUS specified. As did my P5N-T deluxe, my M3N, and my U30JC... All ASUS products.

I didn't *expect* it to work, and as I mentioned the modules weren't mine, I was just trying it to see if it *would* work. =P

The limitation is probably a BIOS limitation and nothing else really, and I wouldn't be surprised if ASUS eventually releases a bios that's 8gb module compatible(since as I mentioned x58 chipset does officially support them).

[Marvin54]

RIP mobo r3e

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[SpeckleD]

I recently purchased a second Saphire HD5870 card to crossfire, both cards work fine in both slot 1 and 3 on my Rampage III Extreme motherbord but as soon as you install the cards together the problems start.

Windows displays one of the cards (either depending on order of install) in device manager as having an issue, Windows 7 "Unable to start this device (Code 10)" windows 8 "Insufficient resources (Code 14)" then whan you reboot the PC it hangs at windows load. I have to physically remove one card to be able to boot from this point on

When in safe mode it stops at winPNP so it looks like windows is unable to allocate resources to the second card for some reason, any ideas anybody?

I have a Corsair AX860i PSU running the system so no shortage of power.

[BlindShot]

Will this board run Xeon chips? Asus did not list them but people claim they will?

[RamGuy239]

Hmm.. My girlfriends system running Asus Rampage III Extreme - Intel Core i7-980X have started to act crazy lately. She had a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION BBSOD in Windows 8 while gaming Torchlight 2 during the weekend, and now all of a sudden the computer just shut down, and upon reboot it fires up all fans at 110% speed, goes on for about 30 seconds, shut downs and keep repeating this over and over again. But for each try, it spends less and less time before it reboots so after some tries it restarts almost every two seconds.

I tried to just cool it of for a minute, then it tries to boot without going haywire on the fan speeds but it still wont POST or anything, and after a few tries it's back on 110% fan speed and everything.

[RamGuy239]

Seems like it's only the GPU fans that are running on full speed, so I guess it's the graphics card as the motherboard itself, with all it's lights seems to be perfectly normal.

[Mekar]

The Rampage III Extreme is a darn god mobo that is still serving me well.

[DualCpuUser]

Mine is still going strong.

[Salamndar]

Mine is going so well too, but a friend of mine asked me to buy it...so I replaced it with a RIVE and an OEM 3970X

[Xanth]

Will this board run Xeon chips? Asus did not list them but people claim they will?

Yes. I run mine with an X5650 at 4.6 no problem. I have also tested it with two other xeons without incident. Just make sure you have a recent bios.

[SwiFt_wayno]

Does anyone have or know where I can get a waterblock for my rampage 3 extreme? It is the last thing i need to complete my cooling loop.

[hutkikz]

Does anyone have or know where I can get a waterblock for my rampage 3 extreme? It is the last thing i need to complete my cooling loop.

I still have the EK block(mb) I bought for mine and never used. but I don't have paypal or any way of safely dealing online, so unless your in northern MI. I don't know how we would hook up

[Xanth]

Anyone have the taller Northbridge heatsink? I lost mine and am willing to pay to get one.

[sysfailur]

Mine is still alive and kicking and has lived it's life quite overclocked. I'm considering upgrading in the Spring but man this thing has served me well!

[UrbanSmooth]

Mine is still alive and kicking and has lived it's life quite overclocked. I'm considering upgrading in the Spring but man this thing has served me well!

Likewise, been going on two years with my R3E mobo.

[Mungri]

Well I just got a new case, and holy crap:



My R3E is over 3 years old now, been running at 186-190 BCLK which is both my ram and CPU clocks sweet spot, and the CPU will only be 2 years old at the end of this year.

If I re paste the phanteks cooler with MX4, should keep every CPU core under 85 degrees at 4.5 Ghz + 1.4v, but I deffo wont run that 24/7.

I had to raise my ram timings from 7-9-7 to 9-9-9 to be able to lower my QPI volts and reduce CPU temps a bit.

[zoson]

Bhavv,
The way the IMC of Gulftown/Bloomfield works, you need 2x the uncore clockspeed to get full memory bandwidth.
So, at 937MHz memory(1874MHz effective) you need an uncore clockspeed of 3748MHz.

If your chip cannot do 3748MHz or better uncore, you should consider running a lower memory speed with tighter timings to get more overall bandwidth out of your setup. It's one of the primary secrets to my GFlop success.

With your 3375MHz uncore, your next lower memory divider will put you at 1687MHz memory(exactly half your uncore), and I would expect your ram could run 7-9-7 again(or better!).

[xpower]

zoson
you mean qpi=uncore? he is already running 2x uncore .

[Mungri]

The uncore is 2x lol. The QPI link is 3375, uncore is the NB frequency of 3750.

I'm not using 4.5 Ghz much, just for quick benchies because the voltage isnt safe on air, but 24/7 use I'm running at the same BCLK with 2 less multi for 4.3 Ghz which works at 1.31v, and stays under 75 degrees on all cores.

I tested various settings on the memory, its fine 24/7 at 1875 Mhz with:

9-9-9-27 - 1.5v Dram, 1.35v QPI
8-8-8-24 - 1.65 / 1.35
7-8-7-24 - 1.65 / 1.4

I used to try running it at 1900 Mhz with 190 BCLK, but that was only bench stable and would cause BSODs every now and then. But I'm glad with how much my temperatures have reduced with my new case.

[Mungri]

I just found out that Gulftown can actually work with just 1.5x uncore : dram frequency from several guides,which also reduces voltage requirements. I'll try this later and see it lets me push my memory further.

[zoson]

You're going to get less performance with 1.5 uncore. significantly less. Thus the 'you need 2x'.

[MaddMuppet]

Just had to post about this. I'm sorry it's an old thread, I know. I have a Rampage 3 Black Edition board. It had never been used and had the dreaded FF code when booting. I tried 2 different CPU's and no luck. Well, I was looking through an online PC stock and I managed to find a brand new I7 950 CPU unopened in the box. I took a punt and wow, first time it booted up. I quickly downloaded the latest bios as it was still running the original on both chips. Flashed both to different versions to try out. Seriously, this has made my week. what a fantastic thing to happen. Ye ha.