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

[zoson]

Got this bullcrap response from ASUS:

Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.

I am afraid to say that I am not allowed to give this kind of value.
I think you can operate according to the spec and manual of your CPU.
Or contact with Intel for consultation.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Please contact with me if you have any other questions.

Best Regards,

Stacey

ASUS Customer Service

I think we should all open support tickets asking for the information. It will be the only way we obtain it.

My response was:

Stacy,
You must give out this information. MUST.
You risk damaging people's CPU's not revealing these values.
It is also false advertising that this board is 'for overclocking' as printed ON THE BOX, if you do not reveal this information. This is a KEY overclocking value.

[borntowin]

10 degrees in temp on my 980X

34c vs 44c.

1005 is better imo.

You are not alone. Me too having the same result as yours.

[kurumi_Japan]

Maybe it is cpu specific, mine is a great 'clocking 3846b batch i7 920...but i don't have the coin for a 990x just yet

THX bito for your follow up.
My CPU is D0 920 & its batch is 3844A806.
You guess, only old D0 920 happens this problem?

I will check this sleep problems with 980X.

[nickless]

A new (old) toy for playing here : bios 0096 http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=27
Thanks to @nickshih.

[zoson]

A new (old) toy for playing here : bios 0096 http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=27
Thanks to @nickshih.

What's the date on this bios? What's the difference?

[wiener007]

What's the date on this bios? What's the difference?

Good question, would also like to know that ...

[nickless]

What's the date on this bios? What's the difference?

What I see on the pictures it's 28.10.2010. About the difference I don't know, but will see when I back at home .

[donmarkoni]

What I see on the pictures it's 28.10.2010. About the difference I don't know, but will see when I back at home .

Yeah, that's right, latest of them all. Just flashed it.

[zoson]

Got this reply from asus when I asked for the table of values:

Hello,

Overclocking options are provided in the BIOS for experienced users to utilize in order to overclock their systems to their maximum potential. Asus does not provide any support whatsoever for overclocking as this can potentially cause damage to your hardware. We do not provide tables/charts or indexes of any kind to facilitate this overclocking. There is no false advertising involved here. Yes, the board has many options for overclocking, however we do not claim or guarantee that we will educate, instruct, or provide detailed explanations for how to do this. Your best bet would be to visit the more popular overclocking forums on the web, such as overclock.net, for advice on overclocking your board and what various options in the BIOS change or affect.


Best Regards,

Chris J.
Asus Support

Everyone should hammer their support asking for one. This is extremely poor support, and we should be given access to the information on how our hardware works, so we can operate it properly.

[bito]

THX bito for your follow up.
My CPU is D0 920 & its batch is 3844A806.
You guess, only old D0 920 happens this problem?

I will check this sleep problems with 980X.

I think maybe only some cpu's show this issue on R3E, but cannot test this theory.
Let me know how you get on with a different cpu....i may have to follow

[borntowin]

Yeah, that's right, latest of them all. Just flashed it.

How the new bios perform on your system. Does Asus fix the temp issue. Thank you.

[Sylver123]

flashed Bios 1203 for R3E it is an beta bios
changelog will come later today


will test now



pls stop pn me i cant share the 1203 bios

Hi mate.

Did you get a chance to test out this new beta bios and can tell what's new in the latest beta bios 1203 for R3E and does it fix any problems with previous official bios 1102?

Thanks for responding.

Sylver123.

[Cookiesowns]

thanks for replying, i am using OCI-E 1 and 2 should all of the PC switches still set to on should i disable the ones i am not using ?

Please read the manual Ok, sorry. haha. For SLI/CF the cards MUST be in PCI-E 1 and 3 for two way. And disable the rest.

[Cookiesowns]

Was there a performance or stability benefit from turning off the unused PCI-E lanes? E.g. Less voltage needed to stabilize?

I have only a single GTX 470 so I have three unused lanes. Thinking of turning them off if I can gain a bit more stability.

If you don't use them why not turn it off?

[zoson]

Put 0096 on BIOS2 this morning.
Still has CPU Over Temp bug.
More stable than 1102, it seems.
I think I'm still going to use 1005 on BIOS1 though.

[Ian[Frozen]]

What sleep problem? :p

[zoson]

Hey guys,
Just wondering if you have seen this behavior:
My DRAM Ref voltages are set to Auto. When I reboot, and check turbo-v, my DRAM Data Ref voltages are not always the same!!!
Sometimes they are 0, sometimes they are -.0125 and sometimes they are -.0250.

It happens in all BIOS so far! 0704, 901, 1005, 1102, and 0096!

Does anyone know how R3E chooses different DRAM Ref on Auto?!
No settings in BIOS were changed, only a reboot!

[donmarkoni]

How the new bios perform on your system. Does Asus fix the temp issue. Thank you.

Well, I can't tell yet if it is a new BIOS or just my persistence, but I'm currently testing 24/7 stability @ 4.5GHz.

No temp issue for me, or at least I don't notice it. I manifests for some by CPU temp going higher then Core temps, or getting stuck for others, right?

Hey guys,
Just wondering if you have seen this behavior:
My DRAM Ref voltages are set to Auto. When I reboot, and check turbo-v, my DRAM Data Ref voltages are not always the same!!!
Sometimes they are 0, sometimes they are -.0125 and sometimes they are -.0250.

It happens in all BIOS so far! 0704, 901, 1005, 1102, and 0096!

Does anyone know how R3E chooses different DRAM Ref on Auto?!
No settings in BIOS were changed, only a reboot!

I noticed ref v changing when changing speed/latencies, but didn't look if it does by every reboot on same settings. Do you set RTL manually, or leave it on auto?

[zoson]

Well, I can't tell yet if it is a new BIOS or just my persistence, but I'm currently testing 24/7 stability @ 4.5GHz.

No temp issue for me, or at least I don't notice it. I manifests for some by CPU temp going higher then Core temps, or getting stuck for others, right?



I noticed ref v changing when changing speed/latencies, but didn't look if it does by every reboot on same settings. Do you set RTL manually, or leave it on auto?

I do not know the correct RTL values for 4GB A3G-A chips, so I leave it on auto.
It does not happen *every* reboot, but I have not made any changes to my speed or latancy on my memory. It seems to randomly set the value on bootup.

[Reflex1]

Can someone post a download link to this new 1203 bios plz?

I would like to see if it finally fixes the temp issues on this board

[bro20000]

Had like that to!

[Benton]

Hey guys,
Just wondering if you have seen this behavior:
My DRAM Ref voltages are set to Auto. When I reboot, and check turbo-v, my DRAM Data Ref voltages are not always the same!!!
Sometimes they are 0, sometimes they are -.0125 and sometimes they are -.0250.

It happens in all BIOS so far! 0704, 901, 1005, 1102, and 0096!

Does anyone know how R3E chooses different DRAM Ref on Auto?!
No settings in BIOS were changed, only a reboot!

This happens to me only when I use TurboV. I use it to change other settings such as Vcore, QPI etc and when I reboot its changed the DRAM Ref voltages as well. Thats the only time I get it. Maybe if you have TurboV auto starting it might do it.

[zoson]

This happens to me only when I use TurboV. I use it to change other settings such as Vcore, QPI etc and when I reboot its changed the DRAM Ref voltages as well. Thats the only time I get it. Maybe if you have TurboV auto starting it might do it.

Hi Benton, thanks for the reply.
I do use Turbo-V, but I do not have it start on reboot. I also do not have any profiles saved... Turbo-V is the only way I know to view the DRAM Ref voltages after boot... Do you have another tool that does it?

[tistou77]

Yeah, that's right, latest of them all. Just flashed it.

then the 0096 bios is better or not compared to 1005, 1102, etc...?

thanks

[borntowin]

then the 0096 bios is better or not compared to 1005, 1102, etc...?

thanks

I will be more intersted in 1203. But wonder if it branch out from 0096?