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

[Khatru311]

Hi Tistou,

Thanks for posting that pic! It is nice to see that issue from the back of the board. I have only looked at the front. I really don't want to remove my board from it's case but I will try and look to see if the back of my CPU 8 pin power is melted. I will report back.

[Nicklas0912]

New CPU is home

C2, 5.1Ghz at 1.45 Volt!

[RamGuy239]

Someone correct me if Im wrong, but I believe he is saying shut down system, remove bios1 chip.

"It should go perfectly fine. I got a message saying IROG-1 was updating, so I guess Dumo was onto something. I reckon after BIOS2 is working well, you can just pop in BIOS1 again and flash it as well so you have two working bioses again."

"Flashed BIOS2 to 0018 bios (automatical update of IROG-1 again), shut down system, insert BIOS in BIOS1, copy BIOS2 to BIOS1 and now BIOS1 works again. Hope it will work for you guys too!"

Tried removing the BIOS chip, sadly it made no difference. I have tried about anything I can think of in order to get my system back up again today. I wrote a rather in-depth report over at Asus's ROG forums which you can read if you like. I guess there is not much left to do, either is the CPU or the motherboard faulty and have to be RMA'ed.

[Guz]

i ahve a rampage extreme 4 board, i7 9360x, all under liquid cooling including motherboard, i can seem to get 4.9ghz 100% linx stable 20 passes with temps hitting 80 degrees.....at 1.4v cpu and ram at 2400mhz easy....

My problem is every time i go even ,50mhz cpu clock higher......during linx x passes the cpu with throttle back to 3.3ghz for about 15 seconds then back up ova and ova...... speedstep is off so think cpu is throttleing due to temps.....

cpu throttle isnt meant to happen to 90 degrees c???????

motherboard is under a koolance water block so that cant be too hot either?? do notice pop caps around cpu vrm area are really hot to the touch....

any advice or setting u reccomend to change....... i have cpu mulit at 50, 100 blk, 1.42v cpu, medium cpu pll, over voltages to their max eg 180% or 140%......cpu vcca set to high.... ram at 1.67v....all other settings on auto

Did you try turning off intel adaptive thermal monitor or anti-surge protection? Both limit your overclock by restraining your cpu within its TDP.

[D749]

What's the best method of applying thermal paste for 3930K and the like? With the cores on the edge I'd think that the "pea" approach is no longer the best. I was thinking of an "X" with a horizontal "-" through the middle. Thoughts?

[OC Nub]

I just use the pea size dot, for 3930k I used a little larger dot. Somewhere here in the forums there was a link to youtube video, looking through a square piece of clear plexiglass, you can see how the paste spreads using the different methods. The X seemed to work the best from what I remember.

[WicKeDcHilD]

I used the straight line method for mine.

http://youtu.be/_7SvebVZ_1c?hd=1&t=49s

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

on X79, large pea size dot.

[hetsaq]

I have got this board on order. I see a lot of bioses being posted in this thread, which one is everyone recommending? Any help would be appreciated.

[D749]

I just use the pea size dot, for 3930k I used a little larger dot. Somewhere here in the forums there was a link to youtube video, looking through a square piece of clear plexiglass, you can see how the paste spreads using the different methods. The X seemed to work the best from what I remember.

http://youtu.be/EyXLu1Ms-q4

I think I'll stick with an "X" but with a horizontal "-" through the middle the "X." Thanks.

[koc]

I also use the "X" method , its the best way to cover almost all the CPU

[Nicklas0912]

3960x C2 1.440volt @ 5.1Ghz!

[Guz]

The two pea side by side method also works well too.

[electricl]

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I was not happy with how the loop turned out so I ordered some new stuff and this is how it looks today. I'm pretty happy with it even though I'm probably not finished with it yet.

[Nicklas0912]

Why have your done so your fans on your radiator takeing "hot" air from you computer and not from freash air Outside and into your PC?

[electricl]

Why have your done so your fans on your radiator takeing "hot" air from you computer and not from freash air Outside and into your PC?

Tried it the other way around and it sucked too much crap into the case, I have two cats and I don't want to use a fan filter, most are too restrictive. I get really good temps both at idle and under full load.

[RCG_Bex]

What have you guys found the highest stable base-clock you can get with the RIVE? 105-107MHz?

132mhz I think was my best

[ugotd8]

Anyone with the Samsung LV 2x4GB kits overclocked care to post a memTweakit screenshot ? I'm having a helluva time OCing these things.

[tistou77]

is it necessary to connect EZ PLUG, next to the PCIE?
it's not necessary with 1 or 2 GPU?

thanks

[MrTOOSHORT]

is it necessary to connect EZ PLUG, next to the PCIE?
it's not necessary with 1 or 2 GPU?

thanks

Says in the manual to plug that in if you have 4 video cards installed.

[Hardass]

Just set this mobo up with a 3930k and it hangs at code 67.

[ugotd8]

Just set this mobo up with a 3930k and it hangs at code 67.

Seems I recall running into that stop code while playing with memory timings. Try resetting BIOS and loading RAW MHZ profile in the DRAM Timing section.

[Hardass]

Seems I recall running into that stop code while playing with memory timings. Try resetting BIOS and loading RAW MHZ profile in the DRAM Timing section.

Reseated ram and fixed it.

[Random Murderer]

posting to sub!
mine's on the way, i'm sure i'll be in here asking a bunch of questions soon, lol.

[Olvik]

I just received the official 1305 BIOS.
Download: [url] ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA2011/Rampage_IV_Extreme/ [/ url]

1. Improve system stability.
2. Improve memory compatibility.
3. Support new CPUs

A greeting.