***ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Owners Thread***

[s4pphire]

No I have no USB malfunction on Linx mate and I am 5.125ghz CPU , 2333mhz RAM stable. What is showing this ?? Windows??? Are you sure your DIMMS wont clock to 2400mhz my Ripjawz 2133mhz will do well above that Linx and Prime stable at 10-11-10-28, with CPU speed well above 5ghz.

My dimms are running at 2400, the above screenshot was just for testing purposes on 'stock' settings to test LinX fluctuation. What I meant with better dimms is that they're CL11 and thus I can't try 9 or 10 at 2400.

The USB malfunction was related to PCH voltage, all is good now. Got it stable at 4.8 + 2400, pretty happy with that for 24/7.

[Olvik]

Just the BIOS 1101 Oficial for the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme.
http://support.asus.com/download.asp...treme&p=1&s=42

- Improve system stability.

Dated 30 December.
They have also canceled the previous list BIOS 1005

A greeting.

[Levesque]

So with 4X Asus 7970, which BIOS should I be using? 005b or 1101?

[pazza316]

My dimms are running at 2400, the above screenshot was just for testing purposes on 'stock' settings to test LinX fluctuation. What I meant with better dimms is that they're CL11 and thus I can't try 9 or 10 at 2400.

The USB malfunction was related to PCH voltage, all is good now. Got it stable at 4.8 + 2400, pretty happy with that for 24/7.

Good clocka for 24/7 mate

[RRunner]

Max Multi with Old BIOS

HT ON:



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[Eldonko]

Saw this thing comes with RIVF. Kindof interesting, I wonder what it does to teh price.

http://rog.asus.com/63822012/news/ro...dphone-amping/

[veblen]

I think my RIVE just died; not sure why. Been careful to always have a fan over the VRM, and haven't been pushing it hard at all (5.0GHz/1.48v). Never had a motherboard die on me.

It just starts and stops within a second and keeps repeating the cycle until I pull the plug. No display on LED debug code either. Reseated the chip, tried with no RAM/no GPU, one stick/no GPU, one stick/GPU; nothing works.

Any ideas?

[Papagaj]

5.0/1,48V is ok for bench bro not for 24/7 even with liquid chilled cooling.

[UltraNEO*]

Just the BIOS 1101 Oficial for the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme.
http://support.asus.com/download.asp...treme&p=1&s=42

- Improve system stability.

Dated 30 December.
They have also canceled the previous list BIOS 1005

A greeting.

Weird... I find my system is more stable with the now defunct 1005 compared to the newer 1101 thus I've downgraded again for now and happy.

[Olvik]

Weird... I find my system is more stable with the now defunct 1005 compared to the newer 1101 thus I've downgraded again for now and happy.

I'm glad, yes I've had that same feeling.

A greeting.

[Nicklas0912]

Hey guys.

I odnt understand what going on here.

I can perfekt run 4.8Ghz at 1.435 Volt, but if im going up to 5Ghz it reg 1.545 voltes.
Why so much:/?

is it some settings in bios there can help it or?

[abeeftec]

Anyone know if this is common? 60C???? This is the second time this has happened and I dont know exactly what part of the board it is speaking about or if its just wrong?

[abeeftec]

Hey guys.

I odnt understand what going on here.

I can perfekt run 4.8Ghz at 1.435 Volt, but if im going up to 5Ghz it reg 1.545 voltes.
Why so much:/?

is it some settings in bios there can help it or?

What I have noticed about these Chips is that you must find the sweet spot on the Blck.

My buddy(who currently holds WR) actually confirmed this with his 2 chips.

One was 119 and one was 105. Also some are even 133.
It could be anything!! But when you find it the chip will take significantly lower voltage. Some may disagree with this but I have used enough of these CPUs to know.

However, in your case, it could just be that your chip is commanding much more voltage once you get over 4.9. That is actually typical on liquid and air and typical of overclocking any CPU



Also, Can anyone confirm that the 7970 thoroughly beats the 580?

[LardArse]

I think my RIVE just died; not sure why. Been careful to always have a fan over the VRM, and haven't been pushing it hard at all (5.0GHz/1.48v). Never had a motherboard die on me.

It just starts and stops within a second and keeps repeating the cycle until I pull the plug. No display on LED debug code either. Reseated the chip, tried with no RAM/no GPU, one stick/no GPU, one stick/GPU; nothing works.

Any ideas?

it behaves like theres no bios rom inserted, try siwtching over to bios rom 2

[jamiee]

Weird... I find my system is more stable with the now defunct 1005 compared to the newer 1101 thus I've downgraded again for now and happy.

Same here, 1101 just doesn't feel as stable compared to the earlier BIOS'es

[pazza316]

1101 from what I can see from the testing I have done so far offers higher memory bandwidth etc per clock. Probably the chipset timings are tighter. I need slightly more voltage on VCCSA for this version but its equally as stable I believe.

[Nicklas0912]

Fixed my overclock a bit!

5Ghz at 1.44 volt!
http://peecee.dk/upload/view/346063/full

[Olvik]

Fixed my overclock a bit!

5Ghz at 1.44 volt!
http://peecee.dk/upload/view/346063/full

Can you put more data ...?

A greeting.

[WCRF]

What I have noticed about these Chips is that you must find the sweet spot on the Blck.

My buddy(who currently holds WR) actually confirmed this with his 2 chips.

One was 119 and one was 105. Also some are even 133.
It could be anything!! But when you find it the chip will take significantly lower voltage. Some may disagree with this but I have used enough of these CPUs to know.

However, in your case, it could just be that your chip is commanding much more voltage once you get over 4.9. That is actually typical on liquid and air and typical of overclocking any CPU

Same strange behavior here.

My chip can pass Cinebench at 4.5ghz (100,1mhz x 45) @ 1.22v in bios (1.24v in Windows), I can perfectly run 3dmark11 and Vantage at 5.1ghz (127,6mhz x 40) @ 1.45v, but no way I can pass (or even reach) 5.2ghz. I've tried up to 1.65v.

I can't believe in such a low wall.

Temp is not the deal, I run it in a waterchiller.

Tried bios 1005 and 1101.

[abeeftec]

Same strange behavior here.

My chip can pass Cinebench at 4.5ghz (100,1mhz x 45) @ 1.22v in bios (1.24v in Windows), I can perfectly run 3dmark11 and Vantage at 5.1ghz (127,6mhz x 40) @ 1.45v, but no way I can pass (or even reach) 5.2ghz. I've tried up to 1.65v.

I can't believe in such a low wall.

Temp is not the deal, I run it in a waterchiller.

Tried bios 1005 and 1101.

Its definately related to BCLK and or liquid and air cooling. If you had Phase it would go over with no problem without finding the BCLK sweet spot at an even lower voltage then you 5.1ghz takes. But without Phase if you can hit 5.0 or 5.1ghz on at a certain voltage but cant get any higher, Finding the BCLK sweet spot will get you over. But only for another 2 or 300mhz.

Just to be sure, I had my UD7 board and the CPU would not go over 5.1ghz. It would get to starting windows but no logo spin. It would do 5.1 at 1.48v but anything over 5.1 even up to 1.66v would stick at the exact same point the where it would show starting windows but no logo spin at all. Then I put that board on phase and reached 5.6ghz at 1.62v.

I dont know if its heat related but it may be surging so fast it locks before you see it.

[OC Nub]

Same strange behavior here.

My chip can pass Cinebench at 4.5ghz (100,1mhz x 45) @ 1.22v in bios (1.24v in Windows), I can perfectly run 3dmark11 and Vantage at 5.1ghz (127,6mhz x 40) @ 1.45v, but no way I can pass (or even reach) 5.2ghz. I've tried up to 1.65v.

I can't believe in such a low wall.

Temp is not the deal, I run it in a waterchiller.

Tried bios 1005 and 1101.

My first chip clocks great with low voltage, but it wont boot at 5200mhz no matter what. I think it was raja@asus that posted about the chips that do 2600+ mem are also the highest clocking chips.

The chip im using now needs higher voltage clock for clock than the first chip, but it will boot at 5400mhz (not benchable on water) and is benchable up to 5250-5300mhz. It is also much better for higher memory frequency.

[mdzcpa]

My first chip clocks great with low voltage, but it wont boot at 5200mhz no matter what. I think it was raja@asus that posted about the chips that do 2600+ mem are also the highest clocking chips.

The chip im using now needs higher voltage clock for clock than the first chip, but it will boot at 5400mhz (not benchable on water) and is benchable up to 5250-5300mhz. It is also much better for higher memory frequency.

My findings are similar. My more voltage hungry 3960x actually clocked higher than my lower voltage chips. In any event, it does seem that the limits on these chips are firm unless your go sub ambient. I've had 4 chips so far and only one does 24/7 reliably at 5.1ghz. All of them are benchable at between 4.9 and 5.2, but 3 of them hit the wall firmly at 4.9 to 5ghz with water cooling for daily use. Base clock, strap, and multiplier combos didn't matter much.

[oanvoanc]

is there any possibility to save the bios settings to a usb stick?
that would be extremely helpful, especially if i want to compare the speed between two or more bios versions.

[Raja@ASUS]

is there any possibility to save the bios settings to a usb stick?
that would be extremely helpful, especially if i want to compare the speed between two or more bios versions.

Currently there is no function for this (though we may add something in the future). Even with that being the case, you would not want to load profiles from different BIOSes as there may be changes that require the profile be rebuilt from afresh.

-Raja

[oanvoanc]

Currently there is no function for this (though we may add something in the future). Even with that being the case, you would not want to load profiles from different BIOSes as there may be changes that require the profile be rebuilt from afresh.

-Raja

hey, thanks for the fast reply. i know that issue from my gig ud4, which just allows to get back the settings used on the same bios version. (of course)

my intention is to compare the speed/efficiency of different bios versions. in case of a retest of a former one it would come in handy to just transfer back the settings from a usb stick.