***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[zinsco]

@ zinsco, Are you using anything usb 3.0? If not do you have the drivers loaded. as mine did weird things until i removed the usb 3.0 drivers. Check that and see what you get.

I've had this system for about a year running on default settings. During that time it has gone in and out of sleep using the usb with out ever having one issue, until now that I have OC'ed. My concern is that I damaged something, because now, even at default settings it won't work with usb anymore. I will check out the usb 3.0 regardless. Thx

To attempt to level out temps across the cores. Cores 2 and 5 consistently show to be nearly and sometimes 10*c and over on temp compared to the other 4 cores which consistently stay within 3*c of each other.

When I started lapping, two narrow and long areas on the plate that were parallel to one another were positioned approximately over where cores 2 and 5 should be. It took alot is sanding to get it all level.

I can confirm that those two cores run hotter that the others. I think that's awesome that you managed to even them out by lapping your cpu.

I'm @ 4.4 24/7 with the 960 utilising sleep.. sure i've had issues with sleep like many others but that was attributed to and confimed throughout other forums to be stability related and nothing more.

Would you be willing to share your settings so that I can compare and see if I can get beyond 4.0? I can get to 4.7 with my voltages high but not too high and 4.5 with them below 1.45 running stable but not allowing sleep to work. I have a 980x so of coarse like for like settings won't work but I could play with it.

My real concern though, is that I have damaged something. If I did, do you guys think it would be my board, ram, or cpu.