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

[The Duke]

Picking up a 965 EE ... what BIOS you think I would get the most out of this chip with?

[donmarkoni]

if that's safe... then why does intel do the whole 1.65v thing? is that just a safety net to follow or something?

Cause default VTT is 1.2V for Bloomfield and if vDIMM is max 1.65V it doesn't breach 0.5V difference safe limit.

I just got an Idea - but can't find any connector for the "Go" button.
Does any one know about it ?

My, idea was to use the "Reset" on my chassi to switch up to heavier OC and let it stay lower for normal 24/7
I know I could solder som wires on the MB - but I don't feel it's OK

There is no connector for Go button, just a Go button.

[skuldarin]

I personally dont think it is worth trying for 2000mhz on the ram. The voltage required is to high for the very very small performance increase.

ya i know i just figured i'd go for it but it doesn't seem like it's gonna work for a daily setup. defference between 933 and 1000 is hardly measureable let alone noticable anyway...

i still can't seem to figure out why LinX wont ever to a 20 pass run, keeps stoping after the first pass even on 100% stock clockings and everything is in tip top shape. would be nice to to show off the 78-80 Gflops out of 20 passes since it keeps registering 81-82 Gflops on the single pass.

[shadewither]

i still can't seem to figure out why LinX wont ever to a 20 pass run, keeps stoping after the first pass even on 100% stock clockings and everything is in tip top shape.

Probably you uncore+ram is not stable.
Stock doesn't mean stable, esp. with 6 rams.

[Vinsent]

Hi All.....

Official.....

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...-ASUS-0901.zip

[McDown]

Hi All.....

Official.....

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...-ASUS-0901.zip

broken link

here's a working one

FTP://ftp.asus.com.tw//pub/asus/mb/L...-ASUS-0901.zip

[The Duke]

Picking up a 965 EE ... what BIOS you think I would get the most out of this chip with?

anything?

[sysfailur]

As a new member to this fraternity I'll be adding my 2 cents. So far did one quick oc last night, 200x20 @ 4ghz, watercooled @ 1.4v, plenty of room to go in my 930 I'm sure. Mem @ 1600. I know it's nothing astounding but I'll be reading up in here and getting to it tonight. I'd like to see a stable 4.5ghz out of this chip.

[kurumi_Japan]

I tested REX3 new BIOS "0901", today.

I think that "0901" is much faster than "9124" on Air.
Especially, 3DMark 06 CPU test score is improved!!
Test results reported on my blog.
"Overclocking Memo"

Tomorrow, I will test this new BIOS on LN2.
I hope, it will improve extreme cooling limit temp.

[kpablo]

So... what are the changes?

[skuldarin]

As a new member to this fraternity I'll be adding my 2 cents. So far did one quick oc last night, 200x20 @ 4ghz, watercooled @ 1.4v, plenty of room to go in my 930 I'm sure. Mem @ 1600. I know it's nothing astounding but I'll be reading up in here and getting to it tonight. I'd like to see a stable 4.5ghz out of this chip.

You can hit 4.5 with the 930 on water no problem. I don't remember what the magic number was exactly but I think it was 21x187, replying to this on my phone so I don't have the settings I used infront of me.

EDIT: make that 21x215, the closest image i have of a clocking near that point was 21x210 @ 1.38v (4.4ghz) on water and was at an average of 69*c at full load for my 930.

[Bodar]

Any feedback on the new bios versions and LN2? I've been rockin 704 and I love it, so no need to change unless you guys think its better in some way.

[TheHardCase]

Alot of problems with reading main cpu temp, cores never had the problem.
They fixed it, need more info...
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

[The Duke]

the latest BIOS i see on the DL at ASUS is the 0802 I just flashed to that one ... is it gonna treat me right?

[Elmy]

http://a.imageshack.us/img12/1645/asusrogcomp3.jpg

This is the fastest I can get this to run. I'm hitting a BCLK wall at 216 with memory turned up then I have to thumb down the memory to get it to 218. I can't get it higher than 218 for now :-(

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this thing to run any faster ? Whats the max volts under water I can put to a 920 DO with blowing it up ?

[OC Nub]

Its probably not your chip, these boards are no better than average at best for bloomfield (welcome to the "I just wasted $400.00" club) unless you use slowmode. For gulftowm they are very good though.

[harbin]

0901 appears better for my 920. Now I can do super pi 1m in an air-cooled close case system.
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[UrbanSmooth]

Its probably not your chip, these boards are no better than average at best for bloomfield (welcome to the "I just wasted $400.00" club) unless you use slowmode. For gulftowm they are very good though.

Whoa there. What board are you claiming?

[The Duke]

0901 appears better for my 920. Now I can do super pi 1m in an air-cooled close case system.
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did it lower your voltages?

[zsamz_]

Whoa there. What board are you claiming?

make a guess
yes the rexIII is a pure waste of $ for bloomfeild
unless asus decides to pull a proper bios outa their ass for bloomfeild
my rexII and my 760 classy biatchslap the rexIII on air and water

[Elmy]

Its probably not your chip, these boards are no better than average at best for bloomfield (welcome to the "I just wasted $400.00" club) unless you use slowmode. For gulftowm they are very good though.

Well thank god I got mine for free :-)

Won the overclocking contest at PDXLAN 3 weeks ago.

I'm going to try the new bios and see how it does.

I'm loving this board though even though im kinda stuck atm.

[Gregski1304]

Is it normal for this board to have IOH Temps from 70 when doing absolutely nothing?!

Should I take the Chipset cooler of and re-apply a new layer of artic silver 5 instead of the Factory compound?

or just rma the board?

I also installed the optional little cooling block with the fan but it doesn't help....

[turtletrax]

Is it normal for this board to have IOH Temps from 70 when doing absolutely nothing?!

Should I take the Chipset cooler of and re-apply a new layer of artic silver 5 instead of the Factory compound?

or just rma the board?

I also installed the optional little cooling block with the fan but it doesn't help....

Yes, remove the heatpipe assy and reapply TIM. They use what I can only guess is yellow dyed gutter sludge and then bake it in the oven until it turns to stone. I saw about a 5-6 degree drop in my temps and you may see much more. If still sucks RMA it.

[harbin]

did it lower your voltages?

Yes, a little bit. But it's just the voltage to run super pi 1m. The same o/c on 9124 bios with same Vcore can't run pi 1m.

[zpaf]

Hello there to all.
Is it ok to have this setup for 24/7 or i have to low vcore/qpi to avoid degrate my i7-960.

Thanks in advance.