Official ASUS X48 Boards: P5E3 Premium, Rampage Formula/Extreme - BIOS/Info thread

[grimpy]

I think we need seperate threads for Rampage and P5E3 Premium, it's getting long winded and confusing for people to follow as to which boards they are taking about.

Agreed.

[Dacipher]

Yea we do need to separate this thread. But anyways I solved the issue about the 3870x2 and the P5E3 Premium. Apparently Express Gate is causing a problem with these cards and therefore not fully functioning. If people are having this problem just disable Express Gate in the Bios and you should be good to go. Its time to overclock andybody got some new results? Post your voltages and and frquencies.

[Infa]

if some one will manage to make a chart over all settings i can fill it in on settings

running now as, 4,2Ghz 1.42v Nb at 1.51 , VTT 1.22
GTL 67.5/70.5

9x467

Mem at 1872 7-6-5-18 , 2,04v

[sje_123]

Hi guys,

Had my rig running for about 3 days now,

Rampage Formula
Q9450
4GB OCZ Reaperx 1000MHz
BFG 8800Gtx
Silverstone 1000W ST

All water cooled.

Fired it all up, installed Vista 64bit, working perfectly, tried 3dmark06 to test stabiltiy, fine, 13000 or so at stock.

Started clocking the cpu, easily to 3.6GHz prime stable with 1.3V in bios. I thought, I'll run 3dmark again, but I never got above 20fps, overall score of 3050!! I thought no probs, I'll just put it back to stock and start again.

Back at stock, same thing happens in 3dmark, 3050marks. I also tested it with COD4 and is also stuttery even at 1024x768.

After hours of trying to get it to work and can't I think right, I'll reinstall windows. So I do, all I installed were the chipset drivers, updated intel martix raid drivers, then installed latest gtx drivers. Fired up 3dmark and it was working, about 85fps on the first test. So stopped that, thought I'll up the CPU again, went just to 3GHZ and 3dmark and COD running slow. Back to stock, still running slow!

Whats going on??? I have set my RAM to 2.1V and 5-5-5-12 timings in bios but everything else on auto.

Any time I touch any CPU bios settings 3Dmark and COD4 run slow even when I bring the settings back to stock. I end up having to reinstall windows. I dont dare touch the CPU at the moment incase the same thing happens.

The memory has been tested with memtest86+ and the cpu runs fine at 3.6GHz and prime but will not run a game or 3dmark. Not sure if its the gfx card or the cpu.

Even clearing CMOS wont get 3dmarl to work at stock after the increase in CPU.

Any help much appreciated

[Infa]

Thats a common thing that will happen when to low vMCH or VTT or both..

it wont load the grapics driver, and it will become like that, quads needs quite more than dual in that area too..

try that, if you havent, if you have, then i dunno yet

[sje_123]

Thanks for the quick reply,

I see poeple running 1.55V on the NB so I'll try that but what is a 'sensible' value for the VTT? Bother are under water so I can push them a bit.

Also, they are on auto now in the bios so when I changed them and it didn't work, why when I put the settings back to auto does did not work still if it just a voltage issue?!

Thanks again

[mrab54]

I have played around w/ my RF only a little but I noticed the "auto" settings can result in pretty big over voltages. For example, I had everything auto and stock except my RAM, I needed to change speed from 800 to 1066 MHz. The resulting "auto" volts was something like 2.22. My RAM is rated for 2.0-2.1. Now I started freaking out when I was failing Prime95 stock. I dropped the RAM to 2.05 and all is fine. Just hope it didn't do any damage.

[Infa]

Ok, what FSB are you on? what i've noticed is that 266 strap is the one working all over... its not that logical, couse ive been fighting with this board, rampage and premium are very similar though not the bios. so im probably talking for both..

333 are HARD strap to work on, wont take high fsb and cant take the voltage.

for 450 , the 333 are ok with about 1.40 , over that , switch 266 and pump the vMCH up a bit the higher u get, im 467 using 1.51.

and yeah, some things dont like voltage, some board or hardware... its a good sign though so you know u wont put more, couse it wont work and you know what the problem are.

sry i cant match up the settings on quad, but in general it needs some more, sometimes quite more.

BTW fellows! im seeing BIOS 401 for the Premium now!

ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5E3_Premium/P5E3-ASUS-Premium-0401.zip

someone willing to try?

[sje_123]

I can be on stock FSB of 333 or I can run 450 with the CPU prime stable and the system appearing to run fine apart from the slow graphics.

I have the NB set at 1.55V for a test, CPU at 1.3V, SB 1.1V which runs 3.6GHz perfectly on the chip (prime 8hours stable, temps mid 50's load, idle 35ish). I have left the voltages at that and taken the FSB back to the stock 333 to eliminate it being a voltage problem.

This morning I booted up with 3.6GHz and 3dMark06 and COD4 run perfectly, just under 14000 marks, BUT, reboot, stops working, back to running slow.

It seems completely ramdom and I have no idea what's up,

Any more thoughts?

Cheers

[Infa]

Ehm.... sounds weird.. tried to change drivers? just a shot.

what pci-e mhz hare you on?

[bellinghamwa]

I can be on stock FSB of 333 or I can run 450 with the CPU prime stable and the system appearing to run fine apart from the slow graphics.

I have the NB set at 1.55V for a test, CPU at 1.3V, SB 1.1V which runs 3.6GHz perfectly on the chip (prime 8hours stable, temps mid 50's load, idle 35ish). I have left the voltages at that and taken the FSB back to the stock 333 to eliminate it being a voltage problem.

This morning I booted up with 3.6GHz and 3dMark06 and COD4 run perfectly, just under 14000 marks, BUT, reboot, stops working, back to running slow.

It seems completely ramdom and I have no idea what's up,

Any more thoughts?

Cheers

Try setting the CPU FSB and SPP voltages to 1.4v.

[zlojack]

Does anybody have water on this board? (P5E3 Premium)

I'm thinking about making the move to X48 and DDR3 and I've got blocks for CPU, Mosfets, NB and SB for my Maximus that I'd like to bring over to this board, but looking at the NB, it doesn't look good for my EK NB-S-Max for fitting on this board. I've also got the EK NB/SB Asus 4 which apparently does fit on the P5E3 Deluxe SB, so it should be ok on this one.

Anyone given it a try?

[sauria]

I just built a P5E3 Premium with Windows XP SP 2 (loaded ICH9 drivers from floppy), e8400, 8800GT, Pioneer SATA Blu-Ray BDC-2202B, Barracuda 7200.11. I had to install the OS with IDE mode to boot from the DVD drive. I have no Parallel devices and a floppy drive. Is there Any way to change to AHCI? I get BSOD if I try to change it back in the BIOS. Thanks. DO I need to install on an IDE DVD and then install the new SATA DVD?

[jcniest5]

Anybody's got a better link to the newest BIOS 0401 yet? The link above requires a username and password, which I don't have.

[Infa]

Ok, i myself downloaded it from that place

asus FTP are public all the way, weird it doesnt work for you
ahh never mind
cheers!

[jcniest5]

Ok, i myself downloaded it from that place

asus FTP are public all the way, weird it doesnt work for you

i will put it up om my ftp for a while, just for you guys :P

http://hem.bredband.net/infan/premium-0401.zip

Just Right Click and Save as, and it will work.

cheers!

This doesn't work for me either. Problem right off the bat when I right click on it and Save as...

[Aivas47a]

The new bios is on the main Asus website now too.

[jcniest5]

The new bios is on the main Asus website now too.

What do you mean "main website"? I am looking at the P5E3 Premium BIOS page and 0204 is still the latest one showing...

[Dacipher]

Has anybody tried 0401 Bios yet? Any details on fixes or improvements? I have not yet seen any confirmation of this Bios release.

[bobov]

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socke...emium-0401.zip

[Supershanks]

Hi Infa how's the premium going??

if some one will manage to make a chart over all settings i can fill it in on settings

I did one for my Asus P5E3 Deluxe feel free to copy, use & adapt it if it's any use.

Must admit i'm pretty happy with the Gigabyte GA X48T DQ6
just hit this today


luck

[jcniest5]

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socke...emium-0401.zip

Got it...thanks. I flashed mine, but nothing changes as far as my naked eyes can tell.

[Infa]

Well, for me it seems they changed the STRAP in some way..

when flashed and then reloaded my settings i had before, it did go blank
then i put strap 333 and it booted up fine..dunno whats up.

supahank yeah its working out fine! nothing spectacular, but all ok
nice Fsb u got there, im getting about the same, maybe more with more than 1.60, but didnt bother to test more

regards.

[jcniest5]

If my Strap is set at Auto, which one the BIOS actually choose when my memory frequency is at 1333 (333 (ie: 4x333=1333) my guess)?

[bobov]

Well, for me it seems they changed the STRAP in some way..

when flashed and then reloaded my settings i had before, it did go blank
then i put strap 333 and it booted up fine..dunno whats up.

supahank yeah its working out fine! nothing spectacular, but all ok
nice Fsb u got there, im getting about the same, maybe more with more than 1.60, but didnt bother to test more

regards.

Yes, with 0401 bios, 266 strap won't work any more.