X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[RobPuba]

But I notice lately that my computer don't fully boot up...... Sometimes.It stops at the Rampage logo wallpaper, doesn't recognize the keyboard and restarts be itself at times. Did anybody have this problem ??

[RobPuba]

But I notice lately that my computer don't fully boot up...... Sometimes.It stops at the Rampage logo wallpaper, doesn't recognize the keyboard and restarts be itself at times. Did anybody have this problem ??

BUMP !!!!

[Fillthee]

Alright chaps,

Having some issues pushing my Q6600 (G0) past 3.2ghz! its stable as can be at 3.2 (1.416v) but the minute I try to go above that it might boot to windows but it wont finish a 3Dmark06 bench or any of the benchmarks included with sisofts sandra.

CPU cooling is provided by an Arctic Freezer 7 and temps at 3.2ghz are around 36c and under load they hit about 48c.

Ram is G.Skill F2-8500CL5 (2x4gig kits)

CPU speed - 3221Mhz
Bus Speed - 358Mhz
Rated FSB - 1431Mhz

DRAM Freq - 536mhz
FSBRAM - 2:3

Everything in bios apart from ram/cpu voltage is set to auto.

Any advice or help would be more than welcome as im not a big overclocker and dont really know what all the options in bios will or wont do for my overclock.

PC spec:

Rampage Formula
Q6600
8gigs G.Skill F2-8500CL5
BFG 9800GX2
Creative X-fi plat.
PCP&C Silvener 750w
Lian Li A71 5x120mm fans

[brinox]

Alright chaps,

Having some issues pushing my Q6600 (G0) past 3.2ghz! its stable as can be at 3.2 (1.416v) but the minute I try to go above that it might boot to windows but it wont finish a 3Dmark06 bench or any of the benchmarks included with sisofts sandra.

CPU cooling is provided by an Arctic Freezer 7 and temps at 3.2ghz are around 36c and under load they hit about 48c.

Ram is G.Skill F2-8500CL5 (2x4gig kits)

CPU speed - 3221Mhz
Bus Speed - 358Mhz
Rated FSB - 1431Mhz

DRAM Freq - 536mhz
FSBRAM - 2:3

Everything in bios apart from ram/cpu voltage is set to auto.

Any advice or help would be more than welcome as im not a big overclocker and dont really know what all the options in bios will or wont do for my overclock.

PC spec:

Rampage Formula
Q6600
8gigs G.Skill F2-8500CL5
BFG 9800GX2
Creative X-fi plat.
PCP&C Silvener 750w
Lian Li A71 5x120mm fans

Ive been playing around with my rampage formula for about am month or so now, and one thing that ive found is setting the FSB termination voltage up too high leads to instability issues after about 4-5 days (yes, days, you read that correctly).

this is with a newer X3110 (45nm penryn) as well as a Q6600 G0. I ran several benchmarks in those first few days, some for more than 24 hours, all passed with flying colors/excellent temps but then things got hairy in the middle of arena matches in warcraft, or even when i left WCG on constantly (which doesnt load as much as say Prime95 does)

after i stepped down the FSB termination voltage things really turned around... maybe just odd circumstances, but thats my experience so far.

I kinda agree with anandtech's claim of running the VTT voltage(aka FSB termination voltage in our case) no higher than 1.4v, but not with the across the board thing.

in your case you might manually set that manually to about .5-.7v lower than what you want, simply because the rampage formula overvolts that like mad.

[Fillthee]

Thanks for the info brinox, the VTT is set to auto right now, what do you reckon is a good point to start at? ie 1.2 or 1.3? And yea I have seen the info about the VTT burning out there CPU kinda made me wonder if I should even play with it?

I will take a look at the settings in a little bit really want to wait for new HSF to arrive before I take it any higher than 3.2 as the AF7 is good but I want air to be passed down from the heatsink and over the chipset heatsink to hopefully help with its cooling slightly.

Filllthee

[LostHawk]

I kinda agree with anandtech's claim of running the VTT voltage(aka FSB termination voltage in our case) no higher than 1.4v, but not with the across the board thing.

in your case you might manually set that manually to about .5-.7v lower than what you want, simply because the rampage formula overvolts that like mad.

That original article at Anandtech was not a good idea imho but they added more comments after.
There is nothing proving that it's the VTT that killed their QX9650.

But using simple logic the FSB termination voltage which is applied between the N/B and the processor follow the same rule than for the processor core voltage.
The FSB VTT is only affecting a small part of the processor but it's still the 45nm technology involved so: maximum 1.45V.

I'm still at 1.55V VTT here and so are some others but with at least water cooling on the CPU & N/B.
We know we take a risk but not more than someone giving 1.55V to the CPU core voltage.
(and I added warnings about the risk in my overclocking results' posts)

Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm an IT specialist but I can't say the same for electronic.
Still crossing fingers for a new Bios where we can lower this VTT...

Anybody tried the older 0215 bios btw ? I read somewhere it gave better overclocking results.

[triple]

cpu init on a e6750 that has worked in:

-a maximus formula
-a p5w dh deluxe
-a dfi x38 LT

what now.. pressing reset cmos on the back didn't work, reseating the cpu didn't work, now I have the battery out..

[sauria]

But I notice lately that my computer don't fully boot up...... Sometimes.It stops at the Rampage logo wallpaper, doesn't recognize the keyboard and restarts be itself at times. Did anybody have this problem ??

Maybe early BIOS woes. Are you running RAID?

[RobPuba]

Maybe early BIOS woes. Are you running RAID?

I have 6 sata hard drives and one usb 160Gb HD for backup...... didn't install any raid drivers. I only formated C drive. Everything install good in Windows. There's no updated bios on Asus website

[swiftex]

I have 6 sata hard drives and one usb 160Gb HD for backup...... didn't install any raid drivers. I only formated C drive. Everything install good in Windows. There's no updated bios on Asus website

disconnect the usb hard drive
- after you get things updated you'll be ok to reconnect
-initially its a usb problem with this board for some reason

keep in mind no raid drivers - no ahci mode - ide only for you

[h2OKewl]

keep in mind no raid drivers - no ahci mode - ide only for you

For sure?
http://www.intel.com/support/chipset.../cs-015988.htm

"The Serial ATA (SATA) controller [Intel® Matrix Storage Manager] has three modes of operation:
IDE mode - no AHCI, no RAID
SATA mode (sometimes called AHCI mode) - AHCI enabled, no RAID
RAID mode - AHCI enabled, RAID enabled"
The article seems to suggest installation of raid drivers is not absolutely required (to obtain AHCI), but recommended for maximum flexibility.

I am very keen on understanding this before I set up my new system. Can you confirm must have raid drivers/config for ahci mode on x48? I understand must install them before OS installed.

I was hoping to set my rig up with one drive initially (maybe just a 200GB seagate) for testing components and then later migrate to RAID5 with 4 x 1TB 7200.11 added to the 200GB OS drive. Can this work? Is it wise? Will I be able to run ahci mode (and later RAID5) w/o having to re-install OS (Vista 64 Ultimate).

Anyone think I have made a mistake with my memory choice?

thanks to all for a great thead!

[mngdew]

Maybe early BIOS woes. Are you running RAID?

Look at my sig

[sauria]

Look at my sig

Try it with just 1 HD. I had an issue when I ran with 3 x 74G Raptors in RAID 0. None with just 1 HD.