Originally Posted by Salamndar
Strange, my wife just called me and informed me that the PC is not responding and seems like a total system freez!
I completed an 8 hour prime95 test and it was fine!
I need to attend it ASAP! :
I gave up on multi hour runs of prime for that reason. I use LinX and the other Linpack based programs.
To be honest, there's not many applications which we normally use daily that would take up so much of CPU resources. I don't get the point of running 8 hours of Prime. Back to the older days then yes because CPU tends to be a bottleneck in many cases and it's at full load during a lot of scenarios. With our i7, it barely stays 100% for more than 5 minutes. Save power and love our earth, 1 hour Prime is more than enough!
Intel Inside
My last run of prime95 failed after 4 hours !!
I'll wait for my cooling system to arrive and retest the system again trying to break this stupid 209MHz Bclk wall !!
I can't believe I payed dearly for a high end mobo that can't reach the 222 wall !
I should have stayed with my former gigabyte GA-EX58 Extreme, I was able to reach 215 on my older C0 CPU for testing with no issue!
Btw, what BIOS are you guys using? I'm still on 1406
Intel Inside
My 920 D0 running for one month with 1.23-1.25V on 4200MHz extremely stable in LinX and Prime-95(200x210), but i can't over 210mHz with any voltages. Not boot at all. Temperature still less than 80C on most hot core. Any suggestions?
RIIE, 1504, 3x1GB Patriot 1600(working with the same freq. 1.68V 7-7-7-20-1T), Thermalright Ultra120 with 2 Scythe fans, ASUS GTX260-216SP, Antec Quattro850W, all good coolled into HAF932 with 3x20cm +1x14cm fans.
@TalBar push PCIE to 101 or 102 mhz - this helped me to get 228
Iam on Bios 1504
regards
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RIIE/W3520@4,3/4,1GHZ-UC
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Any words on new BIOS ?
Wichone BIOS?
More probably your cpu that got a wall , absolutley no guaranty that it will do over 200 bclk , my xeon got a 24/7 wall at 207 while my C0 had a wall it at 213 , so you can't just blame the board if you have reached higher bclk with another board when using another cpu -_-My last run of prime95 failed after 4 hours !!
I'll wait for my cooling system to arrive and retest the system again trying to break this stupid 209MHz Bclk wall !!
I can't believe I payed dearly for a high end mobo that can't reach the 222 wall !
I should have stayed with my former gigabyte GA-EX58 Extreme, I was able to reach 215 on my older C0 CPU for testing with no issue!
I used the same old CPU on the R2E and I found out that it hit a wall less than it did on the gigabyte and it needed more voltage on the R2E!
the no of times
linx passed 7-8 hours runs 5.4gb max..
and failed in prime in 20 mins for 5.4gb ...
linx doesnt test inconsistencies in hardware.
there this one setting linx passed 7 hours
but heck i could even load a new game in supreme commander ..
Don't worry too much about what BCLK you can get on this board, it's probably not a reflection of your skill level. Seems that the Rampage II Extreme can't live up to the standards set by the always impressive Rampage Extreme (X48).
Some guys get lucky and can hit 230+ but others cant get over 205 - 215, even with known high BCLK cpu's.
What really pisses me off is that I payed more than I did for the gigabyte for nothing really extra at all !
I don't say it is a bad mobo at all, it is really impressive but over priced for what it is capable of!
Well if you did your homework and looked for some reviews when the mobo's were launched you would have been aware, that before the Classified popped up the Bclock differences between the different brands were minimal...
You pay extra for gimmicks, OC tools, durability, etc... isn't 220BClock enough for daily use ?
220 is amazing Bclk, but I'm far from it, OC tools......what are these for if you can't get more than any other avg. board out there, durability.....again I've never had a problem with any motherboard that I've payed for for the last 10 years from gigabyte, Asus, MSI, Abit or DFI. so still think Asus built a rocket that it can cary a nuke, alas it won't fly !!
well it's not high as our RE II tops at 222 and the little GENE II does 226 just like that... sadly nothing is warrantd when OCing... even for the magnificent X48 REX, there are boards that never even did 600FSB
Does the new BIOS 0077 help to get higher clocks?
no, it doesnt.
Its great for 24/7 'normal' clocks, and that's what I bought it for. The Classified on average does better IMO but it costs more too.
Of course, you don't buy a RIIE for benching or 'high BCLK' etc. It's a 24/7 board with all the bells and whistles.
No idea what mine does regarding BCLK, its not important to me. I would hazard a guess though that there are a lot more R2E's that cant do 220 BCLK stable than there were X48 REX's that couldn't do 600 FSB.
I was more just making the comparison between REX and R2E in that the old REX was (arguably) the best s775 bench board (for dual core). The R2E will never be to i7 what the REX was to s775.
I thought that all the Beta 0077 does is allow the use of the i9 6 core chip.
Main Rig;
Asus Rampage II Ex, i7 920DO @ 3.64, 12 Gb Corsair Dominator DDRIII, Corsair H-70, Corsair 1 KW PSU, 2 ea EVGA 580's in SLI driving 3 Samsung 245t's at 5760 X 1200 surround, Boot drive Corsair Vertex II SSD, Programs 2 V- Raptors in RAID 0 and a WD 1 Tb RE3 for files and client data. Sound, ASUS Xonar D2X, Normal optical drives Etc. Win 7 Ult.
Hi anyone who reads this
Bought windows 7 today and my first ssd (intel x25-m g2 160gb)
Installing drivers atm and have some questions..
Do i need to install the jmicron jmb36x controller still ?
And is there anything else i need to do with my ssd ? maybe settings in windows or bios ?
Tnx in advance
Last edited by AceBaran; 10-24-2009 at 10:22 AM.
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How have you guys downgraded bios?
EZ Flash and Asus Update (with downgrade checkbox ticked) refuse to do it.
I've tried a couple different versions of afudos (including an ES one) on a bootable USB and I get an out of memory error after it reads the file and tries to read the flash.
My underlying problem is bios 1504 and 1406 perform poorly with my x25-m, so I need to downgrade to find the latest one that works. Had 804 in bios2 which gave proper speeds, but I updated it to 1406....
Rename BIOS file to for example "1406.rom" and it allowed me to downgrade. Has always worked for me on all my Asus mobos.
can some one upload bios 0077
nothing diferent on performance 1504 and 0077...0077 just support for Gulftown...
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