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

[xpower]

sorry guys got few questions: i think RIIE own thread is stoped so i posting here.
why uncore is so hard to go higher, is it IMC or the board related.
on same settings 220 bclk seems to be fine but after that it boot fine till 233 but can not be stable in linx stress. is it got to do with ioh or cpu.it freezes on screen.
just trying to know the real culprut.
sorry for my bad english.

[Johnny_Utah]

Recently, I purchased this board with a new 970 (after price reduction). I just had my 930 on a P6x58D premium board at 4.1 with no problems.

Couple questions:

1.) Which value should I set the Multiplier at for best overlock results? Keep at the stock or lower?
2.) For Gulftown processors, I was under the impression that the Uncore needs only to run at 1.5 times the Dram Frequency instead of the x2 for Bloomfield. I am having problems right now getting stable running IBT for more than 5 tries. I will post settings after I figure out these values.

Thanks!

[zoson]

Recently, I purchased this board with a new 970 (after price reduction). I just had my 930 on a P6x58D premium board at 4.1 with no problems.

Couple questions:

1.) Which value should I set the Multiplier at for best overlock results? Keep at the stock or lower?
2.) For Gulftown processors, I was under the impression that the Uncore needs only to run at 1.5 times the Dram Frequency instead of the x2 for Bloomfield. I am having problems right now getting stable running IBT for more than 5 tries. I will post settings after I figure out these values.

Thanks!

Odd multipliers seem to be more stable for me than the even ones. I think that's the general consensus. I like the 21x multiplier because at 200BCLK it gives you a nice and easy 4.2ghz while also giving you access to 1600mhz and 2000mhz memory.

Uncore does only need to be 1.5x, but again, it seems the general consensus is to increase your uncore to at least 1.6x. Many of us with 970's find with 1.35v QPI, you can get ~3.6ghz stable uncore speed.

With more uncore speed, you will have more performance, since the connection between the on die memory controller and the core is faster.

Many of us also get better stability at higher clocks with lower CPU PLL. The values differ wildly, so you must try everything.

[Salamndar]

I'm having my eyes on this motherbaord to replace my crappy gigabutt UD9 !

Still I'm torn between the Rampage III extreme and the black edition!

[Shiranui Gen-An]

I'm having my eyes on this motherbaord to replace my crappy gigabutt UD9 !

Still I'm torn between the Rampage III extreme and the black edition!

I have both and wouldn't say the UD9 sucks...

[Salamndar]

I have both and wouldn't say the UD9 sucks...

My UD9 won't do Bclk higher than 160MHz....so much for unlocked power !!!!!!

[bassplayer]

My UD9 won't do Bclk higher than 160MHz....so much for unlocked power !!!!!!

I believe that means you're doing it wrong... Did 242 without slowmode on mine and 257 with... Ran 1M at 256.

[Salamndar]

I believe that means you're doing it wrong... Did 242 without slowmode on mine and 257 with... Ran 1M at 256.

I've been overclocking since the P2 days, so I know my way around.

Same CPU on an EVGA classified http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1414

P.S. I was able to reach 212Mhz Bclk with that classified on this CPU.

[bassplayer]

212 still isn't high at all, though. Have you tried any other chips on the UD9?

[Salamndar]

212 still isn't high at all, though. Have you tried any other chips on the UD9?

Tried a 950 same issue.

[CryptiK]

Ive seen Salamndar's issue its the weirdest thing and he does know his stuff, typical case of board is crap cant OC but although designed and marketed for overclocking its not covered under warranty. Any board would do better than his UD9!

[Salamndar]

Ive seen Salamndar's issue its the weirdest thing and he does know his stuff, typical case of board is crap cant OC but although designed and marketed for overclocking its not covered under warranty. Any board would do better than his UD9!

Thank you good sir, that's exactly what I was trying to say.

Bclk 200 or 212 or even 250 is the same as long as you break the 200MHz, but to sell a board as an overclocking dream which is not is annoying and no RMA is available to my issue so yes any board will be better than my UD9.

Any way ebough of UD9 since this is a Rampage 3 extreme thread.

Now I'm torn between the Rampage 3 extreme and the black edition.

The Rampage 3 Extreme is much cheaper but I hate the stock HSF and currently it seems hard to find a water block for it.

The black edition is $$$ and I like every thing about it exept the thunderbolt since it is useless to me !

[CryptiK]

No worries. For normal use, and if you aren't going to utilize the thunderbolt, the R3E is a better choice. Keep your eye out for a koolance or EK block for it on your local forums and try and grab one. I had to buy a whole R3E and EK-FB as the guy wouldn't separate, so I just removed the block, refitted the stock heatsink (which I also dislike) and sold it, ended up almost getting the block for free so it was worth the hassle.

Either that or go another board but the fact you want to water cool and are buying a board this late in the lifecycle will make it harder to find new blocks in stock. You have the X58-OC but they may not even make a block for it......that's why I suggested the used block new mobo solution.

[Salamndar]

No worries. For normal use, and if you aren't going to utilize the thunderbolt, the R3E is a better choice. Keep your eye out for a koolance or EK block for it on your local forums and try and grab one. I had to buy a whole R3E and EK-FB as the guy wouldn't separate, so I just removed the block, refitted the stock heatsink (which I also dislike) and sold it, ended up almost getting the block for free so it was worth the hassle.

Either that or go another board but the fact you want to water cool and are buying a board this late in the lifecycle will make it harder to find new blocks in stock. You have the X58-OC but they may not even make a block for it......that's why I suggested the used block new mobo solution.

I wouldn't mind using an air cooled motherboard, but I heard the Rampage III Extreme stock HSF is not doing its job efficiently

[Chigurh]

If you have the $ go with the Black.

[fmsam]

No worries. For normal use, and if you aren't going to utilize the thunderbolt, the R3E is a better choice. Keep your eye out for a koolance or EK block for it on your local forums and try and grab one. I had to buy a whole R3E and EK-FB as the guy wouldn't separate, so I just removed the block, refitted the stock heatsink (which I also dislike) and sold it, ended up almost getting the block for free so it was worth the hassle.

Either that or go another board but the fact you want to water cool and are buying a board this late in the lifecycle will make it harder to find new blocks in stock. You have the X58-OC but they may not even make a block for it......that's why I suggested the used block new mobo solution.

I hear ya', but I think it would be worth mentioning that at least the BE has a Sata 6gb/s that actually works !!

[Salamndar]

I hear ya', but I think it would be worth mentioning that at least the BE has a Sata 6gb/s that actually works !!

Hold on a minute.....what's with SATA 6gb/s on the R3E ?!?!??

[zoson]

Hold on a minute.....what's with SATA 6gb/s on the R3E ?!?!??

It's marvell, so it sucks like every other sata6gb/s board with marvell...

[zinsco]

The black edition has the marvell controller 9182 and is better than the 9128 that the R3E has but they are both marvell cause intel hadn't come out with 6gb chip until after the rampage. Intel is much better.

[Salamndar]

That's not a bad thing, SATA III is still not native supported with intel chips so all motherboards currently uses a third party chip which won't work as good as intel, besides, USB 3 + SATA III are not important to me at all.

Hell I have no SATA iii device nor a USB 3 !

[CryptiK]

I'm so tempted to say wait for Ivy................I just feel nothing for SB, but Ivy may have some pretty cool performance..........is it worth it to get an X58 now? You have held out so long with that mobo. You have a 980X though so you can pretty much hit any clock you want with multi, just have limited options due to BCLK limit, but I run 133 x 30 for 4GHz 24/7 (lol just had to open CPUZ to see what I run cos I haven't touched the settings on this board for months now) and its fine for daily duties and gaming. If you can wait, Ivy should kick X58's ass.

Also if you need to put a damper on air/water overclocking, do some sub zero benching. Seriously, since I did that I have next to no interest in air/water OC anymore, I just use water for low temps and virtual silence. A nice air setup running 4GHz (X58 or Ivy) would handle whatever you want to do surely. Damn, listen to me, I must be getting old

[donmarkoni]

... Damn, listen to me, I must be getting old

Now go and do some memory overclocking with fine latency tuning to rejuvenate.

[Salamndar]

Now go and do some memory overclocking with fine latency tuning to rejuvenate.

I faild to mention that I currently running an EK water block on my UD9 which I fear it could be one of those bad ones that have been running around, by the way my old dead classified mobo was running with an ek water block that have this plating issue !

Any wy, I wanna get red of my Ud9 fast do to all the wrong reason I'm having with it, also I've invested some $$$ with the 980x which to me should save me from switching to socket LGA2011 for at least another year ( I hope so but I'm too weak when I see sexy PCBs, orgasmic chips and beautiful graphics cards, yup I am a junky whom am I trying to fool ).

[GunGod]

I wouldn't mind using an air cooled motherboard, but I heard the Rampage III Extreme stock HSF is not doing its job efficiently

Same with R3BE, 100% LLC make my board runs really HOT!

[Salamndar]

I was in the market today to check some stuff up, The BE is unannounced in the Middle East so the ones in the market are imported and cost more than twice of the Rampage extreme !
Seems the rampage extreme a more sensible choice
But again I have to take my time deciding what to do first!