ASUS Intel Beta BIOS Releases and Official Support

[Leeghoofd]

i am lost in all the biossen rex 3 whits one is the best for 2d and 3d ln2 ?

Go with 1102...

[stasio]

What are you talking about? The latest BIOS on the Asus site for R3E is 1005. Have they decided to change their numbering convention or ???
I'm running 1005 and temps all seem just fine.

R3E 1102
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...-ASUS-1102.zip

[JohnZS]

STILL no BIOS for the ASUS Rampage Extreme to resolve the QX9xx0 series Extreme Edition CPU manual multiplier issue AND to add the "Refresh Period" settings to the BIOS
Come on ASUS, please release one last BIOS with the above and updated RAID Option ROMs... PLEASE!
Thanks
John

[Johnmark]

R3E 1102
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...-ASUS-1102.zip

Oh, I see 1102 is a bigger number than 1005, DUH !!
Thanks for not slamming me guys

[dctokyo]

Asus Rampage III Formula Bios v 0505

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...e_III_Formula/

[bingo13]

Updated 11/10/2010 -

Sabertooth X58 -

BIOS 0603 -
1. Opened Memory Timing Selections for Additional Tweaking
2. General Performance Enhancements for Overclocking
3. Improved Voltage Controls
4. Improved Auto Tuning Rules

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...-ASUS-0603.zip

[Diverge]

bingo13,

Could you give up some detail on what exactly has changed in the bios releases Asus has done for all the LGA1366 boards in the last couple days?

I've been have CPU temp issues, as outlined here: https://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...Language=en-us

And all Asus support does is tell me to RMA the board. I bought 2 brand new Rampage III Gene's. And they replies was to RMA, so I got board #2.. same problem. Was told to RMA again, that board #3 will do the trick.

To me it seems there is a big communication problem between Asus support techs, and the engineers, and what they may be working on and/or fixing. It seems they don't even inquire anything about your particular board.. and just give you general things to try, and assume there are no issues with anything.

The lates bios fixed my problems of having malfunction cpu temp readings. Now they are just off by 20c (20c lower then core temp), rather then getting stuck at 0, negative numbers, or just plain getting stuck. What bothers me so much is the Asus techs that tell me to keep RMAing boards, when it's obvious they didn't look into anything with the engineers. If they had, they'd know they were working on fixes for CPU temp issues.

edit: if you have any connections with the bios engineers, what about asking them to add a field in the bios for CPU temp offset. make it so people can offset their readings +/-30c or something like that. then they don't need to worry about deltas too much.

[Leeghoofd]

STILL no BIOS for the ASUS Rampage Extreme to resolve the QX9xx0 series Extreme Edition CPU manual multiplier issue AND to add the "Refresh Period" settings to the BIOS
Come on ASUS, please release one last BIOS with the above and updated RAID Option ROMs... PLEASE!
Thanks
John

I had a bios with the TREF value 0022 or something , hopefully I still have it somewere...

[JohnZS]

Cool really?
Was it any good?
I find it quite puzzling that ASUS never carried across fixes from other 775 boards to their ASUS Rampage Extreme (supposedly their premier 775 board).
I do not think I will be switching platforms until this time next year :P
John

[Looker]

I too have been a long time ASUS fan, and just got one of the newer R3F's with a 950, and I'm just about ready to throw it out the window, it drops my SSD on the SATA-III controller every couple reboots without rhyme or reason and usually the only way to get it back is clear cmos, shut down, start up and reconfigure the bios, but you can only enable AHCI on one controller at a time, i.e. standard sata2 or sata3, this is rediculous, I have never had a board so buggy in 20 years, I can't even overclock for snot on it without the marvel controller dropping the drive. I'm thinking I might be calling EVGA soon... unless someone else can recommend a good X58 1366 board... I don't want to switch teams because I have always had very ood results with asus products but this thing is aweful.

[Diverge]

I too have been a long time ASUS fan, and just got one of the newer R3F's with a 950, and I'm just about ready to throw it out the window, it drops my SSD on the SATA-III controller every couple reboots without rhyme or reason and usually the only way to get it back is clear cmos, shut down, start up and reconfigure the bios, but you can only enable AHCI on one controller at a time, i.e. standard sata2 or sata3, this is rediculous, I have never had a board so buggy in 20 years, I can't even overclock for snot on it without the marvel controller dropping the drive. I'm thinking I might be calling EVGA soon... unless someone else can recommend a good X58 1366 board... I don't want to switch teams because I have always had very ood results with asus products but this thing is aweful.

I could have sworn I saw some bench tests of the SATA3 controller used on the asus boards. The intel chipset SATA2 controller is faster. I'd just use that and not bother with it (assuming you have no problems with sata2 controller).

[Chrysalis]

I use the marvell sata3 controller (not in full speed mode) and it appears fine performance wise.

The reason I use it is I use NCQ (ahci) on the intel ports but I have one hdd that performs horribly with NCQ, the hdd also cannot get recognised by the jmicron controller for some reason but works perfect on the marvell controller, this made me so glad i got the -E board as the marvell controller is not on the first gen boards.

[zoson]

Bingo,
Can you please let the ASUS BIOS engineers know that we must have QPI PLL control on such expensive motherboards?
It's really disgusting that it is not available on my Rampage 3 Extreme.

I put my CPU into a friend's x58a-ud3r, a board that's about $170 less expensive, and my CPU was unleashed. Upping the QPI PLL from 1.1v to 1.16v allowed me to run my chip at the EXACT same settings, frequency wise, with only 1.28v. It takes my R3E 1.38v to achieve this.

The cooling difference is phenomenal with a full tenth of a volt less required on core voltage.

This is a make or break for me to jump ship on ASUS to Gigabyte. It needs to be manually controllable.

I don't want to see any responses that this is QPI/DRAM voltage, because it's NOT.

[R37ribution]

I too have been a long time ASUS fan, and just got one of the newer R3F's with a 950, and I'm just about ready to throw it out the window, it drops my SSD on the SATA-III controller every couple reboots without rhyme or reason and usually the only way to get it back is clear cmos, shut down, start up and reconfigure the bios, but you can only enable AHCI on one controller at a time, i.e. standard sata2 or sata3, this is rediculous, I have never had a board so buggy in 20 years, I can't even overclock for snot on it without the marvel controller dropping the drive. I'm thinking I might be calling EVGA soon... unless someone else can recommend a good X58 1366 board... I don't want to switch teams because I have always had very ood results with asus products but this thing is aweful.

My Gene II was having similar issues once I OC'ed my W3520 above 3.9 Ghz. I had to raise my IOH voltage just a tad from the stock 1.11341 to 1.20616 and it solved my problem. Before I raised the voltage, my board dropped my Blu-Ray off the jmicron controller all the time. I had to power off the machine the next time it tried to post to get it to load the defaults due to a 'bad overlook', save my previous settings in the BIOS and exit.

After upping the IOH my chip passed 30 iterations of Linpack using 4096MB of RAM while the Intel ICY10R RAID was doing a verify on my mirror (proves the IOH voltage helped since its dealing with extra bandwidth of the southbridge during the rebuild) and my Blu-ray hasn't dropped since.

[KURTZ]

hey what about Maximus III Extreme BIOS? no updates yes?

[Looker]

My Gene II was having similar issues once I OC'ed my W3520 above 3.9 Ghz. I had to raise my IOH voltage just a tad from the stock 1.11341 to 1.20616 and it solved my problem. Before I raised the voltage, my board dropped my Blu-Ray off the jmicron controller all the time. I had to power off the machine the next time it tried to post to get it to load the defaults due to a 'bad overlook', save my previous settings in the BIOS and exit.

After upping the IOH my chip passed 30 iterations of Linpack using 4096MB of RAM while the Intel ICY10R RAID was doing a verify on my mirror (proves the IOH voltage helped since its dealing with extra bandwidth of the southbridge during the rebuild) and my Blu-ray hasn't dropped since.

Yeah I tried a couple different voltages and finally got the ram to run at ~2133MHz (it's corsair dominator gt and supposed to be spec'd at 2000@1.65v) and that in and of itself has taken forever, only to have it boot up and as soon as windows boots it just restarts. I think the cpu was only running at like 3.33GHz or something. I dunno, I think the gene or exreme would have been a better buy, but I'm really looking at the EVGA offerings. Maybe there will be another bios update in another 3-4 months that will help stabilize this board, but for me just getting it to run all of my hardware _at spec_ as opposed to on 'auto' has taken forever and I've yet to get a stable O'C'. I must have just a bad combo of hardware or something

[zoson]

Bingo,
Could you please find out a table of values for what QPI PLL voltage is set when a CPU PLL voltage is selected on the Rampage 3 Extreme?
Example:
1.36v = x.xv QPI
1.81v = 1.1v QPI(assumed)
1.82v = x.xv QPI
1.84v = x.xv QPI
etc.

I asked ASUS support for this information and got a very bad reply:

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

This is a key overclocking value and we need to know this information to prevent providing too much voltage to QPI PLL!!!
If you could supply the full table of values or a method of calculating the values all the way from 1.2 to 2.0v it would be excellent.
Thanks!

[dMITIj]

Bingo,
Could you please find out a table of values for what QPI PLL voltage is set when a CPU PLL voltage is selected on the Rampage 3 Extreme?
Example:
1.36v = x.xv QPI
1.81v = 1.1v QPI(assumed)
1.82v = x.xv QPI
1.84v = x.xv QPI
etc.

I asked ASUS support for this information and got a very bad reply:

This is a key overclocking value and we need to know this information to prevent providing too much voltage to QPI PLL!!!
If you could supply the full table of values or a method of calculating the values all the way from 1.2 to 2.0v it would be excellent.
Thanks!

+1 here, i to would like to know

[donmarkoni]

Bingo,
Could you please find out a table of values for what QPI PLL voltage is set when a CPU PLL voltage is selected on the Rampage 3 Extreme?
Example:
1.36v = x.xv QPI
1.81v = 1.1v QPI(assumed)
1.82v = x.xv QPI
1.84v = x.xv QPI
etc.

I asked ASUS support for this information and got a very bad reply:

This is a key overclocking value and we need to know this information to prevent providing too much voltage to QPI PLL!!!
If you could supply the full table of values or a method of calculating the values all the way from 1.2 to 2.0v it would be excellent.
Thanks!

+1

[zoson]

ASUS Tech support has officially failed completely:

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

I think I might stop buying asus now.

[VoXPCS]

EVGA Classified 3... nuff said.

[AceBaran]

Asus fail big time here -10

[Leeghoofd]

ASUS Tech support has officially failed completely:

I think I might stop buying asus now.

What did you expect from a tech reply ? a guideline how to do it ? To reveal the hows and whats ? Maybe they don't even know it themselves. I'm already surprised he dared to direct you towards OCN.net...

[WeaponX]

Yeah I don't understand what you guys are expecting from Asus?? I'm happy they even gave us the ability to overclock. I've had too many Gigabyte boards fail on me in both abilty to overclock and reliability. With my Asus boards its been a dream as with many other Asus products.

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[zoson]

I was looking for an explanation as to how the board behaves with this secret adjusting of voltage, unseen to the user, so that I could use the BIOS correctly.

Normally this is a manual control that you can set in BIOS. It is on all EVGA, and Gigabyte i7 boards, including the exceptionally inexpensive UD3R. Unless Bingo can come through here, I'll likely be switching to a Classified 3, and selling off my R3E.

This all started when I built a new PC for a friend on the UD3R, and it took my CPU with my same memory to 4.5GHz, while my R3E struggles for 4.2GHz. Not only did it run my chip faster, it also did it with the same voltage.