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

[vmanuelgm]

Hello people.

Received yesterday morning the new Giga x79 ud7. Made setup, entered to windows and then flashed to new bios f4 through qflash.

After flashing, the pc restarted and started to show a screen with system unstable because of overclocking. I had all in auto without any overclocking, but memory timings and voltage to 1.655.

After three times automatically restarting, the system at last started to load windows, but suddenly the pc was in fire, with smoke coming from it.

Opened the case and saw 4 cpu phases burned out. I have just contacted my reseller to make a rma. Meanwhile I am using again the rampage iv. I have been lucky cos the other components are safe.

So, first impression of the Giga board, VERY VERY BAD....

Regards from Spain.

[Olvik]

Hello people.

Received yesterday morning the new Giga x79 ud7. Made setup, entered to windows and then flashed to new bios f4 through qflash.

After flashing, the pc restarted and started to show a screen with system unstable because of overclocking. I had all in auto without any overclocking, but memory timings and voltage to 1.655.

After three times automatically restarting, the system at last started to load windows, but suddenly the pc was in fire, with smoke coming from it.

Opened the case and saw 4 cpu phases burned out. I have just contacted my reseller to make a rma. Meanwhile I am using again the rampage iv. I have been lucky cos the other components are safe.

So, first impression of the Giga board, VERY VERY BAD....

Regards from Spain.

Hello fellow, it will slaughter the Gigabyte board, at least the ASUS you are better, sure.


Regards from Spain.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Lifes too short to stress over stress testing.

the truth

[FlanK3r]

I hope i will not get a kick from this thread cos i have a Formula board an a 3960X cooled with a French red wine...

hi friend from CZ/SK forums , very nice setup, next year coming finally time for upgrade AIR to Watter by me . Did u tested some overclock?

[owikh84]

this is my RIVE + Koolance block



3930K @ 5.1GHz

[OC Nub]

Awesome looking build!!!

[owikh84]

Awesome looking build!!!

thanks buddy I think that's the max it could go under water.

[Skully]

Hey to all the new RIVE owners. I've had mine about a week now.
I'm oc'ed @ 4.8gig LinX stable cpu voltage @ 1.4v. I can get into
windows @ 5.1 but not stable. My upgrade chain was R2E-R3E-R4E
and most all of the revisions. My upgrade chain has beem 980X-99OX-
3960X. The RIVE is an easy oc'er in some ways. But takes some
getting use to. A new upgraded bios with the RIVE takes some getting
use to. I'm not sure if I have a bad oc'ing 3960X , or my lack of understanding
the new bios. Anywho time will tell. I'm over here perusing Xtreme forums
hoping to learn a few tricks. Have a good day y'all...

[FlanK3r]

owikh84: nice setup and great clocks!

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

owikh84, very clean looking build with the numbers to back it up

[Skully]

owikh84, very clean looking build with the numbers to back it up

... I concur...

[RCG_Bex]

Ok well I'm pretty peeved off now. None of my CPU-Z stuff is validating. I've tried 3x versions of CPU-Z (ROG edition and standard edition) and all of them give me the same stupid dump issue.

Struggling to get 5.1Ghz to boot so I can revalidate again and to be fair, 5Ghz is causing me issues now. Unhappy Bex is unhappy...

[Defoler]

Tying to test superpi, I'm trying to start with HT off.
For some reason I keep getting that stupid 225 windows hardware error when ever I put HT to disable. Even if I'm using my stable OC settings.

Anyone has a work around about that, or I might be doing something wrong?

Settings I put are:
vcore = 1.44v
multi = 48
bclk = 100
vtt = 1.15
vccsa = 1.15
memory = 2133
rampage mode 1, CL - 9-11-10-28-2 (rest auto).
CPU LLC = normal
bclk scew = -2
pcie scew = -20

everything else is on auto.

[abeeftec]

Hello,
Was just told about this thread because I have my SECOND R4E board now. First was toast, Most likely blown up from a faulty Corsair AX1200 PSU.
I had a Gigabyte UD7 which I was able to get to 5.5Ghz on phase. I actually could had went further but I had a mishap and got it wet so its all blowed up now!

Anyway, I started this up in Raid0 and noticed that two ssds in raid0 are a bit faster then it was in the Gigabyte board


And then I noticed after loading optimized defaults after switching to Bios update 0803 that it is awfully hot and there is no speed stepping!


Can someone tell me what the best current stable Bios is for overclocking? and also, Is this board supposed to be default no speed stepping
Or is this a condition from the 0803 bios?

One more thing...When loading the AI suite it did not load any ICONs and going to the folder to try and find one nothing loads. Since I know very little about this software, Am I missing something?

[Systemlord]

Does anyone know how warm the VRM/chipsets run on this board? Considering water cooling if things are on the warm side or if there is any benefit.

[mdzcpa]

VERY warm. Active cooling or the VRM area is recommended for moderate to extreme overlocks if you use higher Vcore and LLC. The board throttles quickly if the VRM get toasty. I'm anxious to move to water cooling the VRM. I have the Koolance block on the way now.

On a side note, the RIVE doesn't have a reported VRM temp. It would be useful.

[Olvik]

Today was officially out of ASUS FTP.
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...ge_IV_Extreme/

A greeting.

[FlanK3r]

better than beta BIOS for OC?

[Olvik]

better than beta BIOS for OC?

You know that the ASUS FTP server does not information until you get in the download pages.
We'll see if BETA or not, if you progress to date remains the same as above. Anyway I have installed for testing.

A greeting.

[owikh84]

omg, come back home press start button, error code B7

Edit: nvm just fixed it by moving the LN2 jumper to disabled (default is enabled)

[Eldonko]

After getting a few more X79 boards I now realize how useful X Socket is. My air cooler, water block, and phase cooler wont fit without it. To test the other boards I had to steal X Socket from RIVE.

[yoshaplumps]

Hi all, I am in need of some help from the masters.

I am far from an expert overclocker, just a dabbler. Was hoping you could share some advice on a strange situation I am having. Here is my setup:

3930K
Rampage IV Extreme
16GB (4x4GB) Gskill DDR3-1600 F3-12800CL9Q-16GBZL
Silverstone ST-1500 PSU
GTX 480 Tri-SLI

I have the two extra PCIE 6 PIN & ATX CPU 4PIN connectors also hooked up to my PSU.

Currently I am running 46x100 = 4.6GhZ @ 1.36V, using High LLC and the other voltages I have set manually are 1.175 for CPU VTT and 1.175 VCC, PLL 1.95 and DRAM 1.65. All C1E/Speedstep etc. is off. I am using a NH-D14 CPU cooler. Load temperature is about 65 on all cores.

So I decided I'd like to go for a higher clockspeed since I am okay with up to 1.40 to 1.42V or so (yes I am a wimp) I discovered this funny situation while I was playing with my overclocking.

To test stability of my 4.6 overclock I ran Memtest 86+ for 8 hours - no errors, HCI memtest to 1000% coverage - no errors, 20 passes of LinX with Max memory - no errors, 24 hours of Prime95 Small FFTS - no errors, Prime Blend 2 hours - no errors. I also can play any game, BF3 etc and have never had any freeze-ups, BSOD or crashing.

I thought the 4.6 overclock was just fine. So when I was playing with my new overclocks at 4.7 and 4.8, again I could pass 20 passes of LinX and run a little prime95 small ffts fine (just a few hours before I found this problem) I decided to try doing Prime Large FFTS instead of blend, system BSOD error 101 after 5 minutes. I tried to give it more voltage all the way up to 1.41V for 100x47, still BSOD in Prime Large FFTS. Also tried raising VTT/VCC to 1.2, no help.

So I went back to my original 4.6GhZ overclock. I was curious and tried to run Prime Large FFTS on the 4.6 overclock.... BSOD after 5 mins, error 101!!!! I couldn't believe it, the system was totally stable and passed linx, prime small, prime blend, memtest 86, HCI memtest - but it fails prime large ffts. I've tried giving it lots more voltage to Vcore, VCC, VTT, memory, playing with higher LLC and still crashes after 5 mins of Prime large ffs with BSOD 101. But the system is totally stable in everything else.

Any advice from the experts why this test is failing for me ? And otherwise system is rock stable in all other tests ? (but obviously not stable since fail prime large ffts!!)

Thank you in advance.

[LardArse]

i would say turn off AC, clear cmos, boot up fresh and key in voltages and ratio once again. this time use clockgen filter set to 20UF as recommened by usewrs and use vccsa starting at 1.15v keeping not more than 300mv delta from vcore. btw large ffts make cpu run hotter no? and also the imc runs hottter since its on the cpu no?

[sprayingmango]

The HardOCP review stated they used BIOS 0903!? I can't it anywhere. Maybe it was a typo?

[pazza316]

As far as I know the latest is 0901. I have tested all the Bios so far and I think 0083b and 0901 are the two best.