X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[sofarfrome]

550FSB without really trying hard

[003]

Xelation:

[Xelation]

Xelation:

That's the fan I put on the backplate cpu cooler, it comes with the Thermalright IFX-14

[003]

I'm curious, what is the latest BIOS for the Rampage Formula? Official or Beta. I thought it was 0219 official, but I have seen references to newer ones?

[Xelation]

I'm curious, what is the latest BIOS for the Rampage Formula? Official or Beta. I thought it was 0219 official, but I have seen references to newer ones?

True, there is a 0308 for a while now. Found here on the Asus Forum: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...age=1&count=37

But it's a bit shady and has an S3 suspend issue

[Xelation]

Hmm 0401 out....: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

[CrapCrasher]

Hmm 0401 out....: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

I just installed the 0401 BIOS, seems work well, despite no changelog exist yet, atleast I haven't encountered any problem of sort

[Xelation]

Any improvements, 0219 running flawless here.

[gcardinal]

I am thinking about getting this X48 Rampage Forumla board. First I wanted to go for DDR3, but price for good DDR3 bricks are just way to high for me.
So I am thinking about setup like this one>
CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2X8500C5DF 2048MB, DDR2, 2x1GB(KIT), DHX, E.P.P, with FAN (TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF)
INTEL E8500 C2D PROCESSOR 3.16G 6MB 1333MHZ FSB (EU80570PJ0876M)

I am just wondering how easy it will be to overclock E8500 to 9.5x425 4037.5mhz on this board?
And if I need to go for better memory like 1200mhz / PC9600. And what are the benefits if there is any?

[RealTelstar]

How are you guys cooling the chipset on this board?
Just some fans on the provided dissy or second market stuff like TR?

[RealTelstar]

I use an LSI SAS PCIe 4X controller on second PCIe 16x slot and it works perfectly.

The disks are 2 Seagate Chetah 15,000 rpm set at RAID0.

Thanks!
its a very similar controller so mine should work too.

I really got enough of my dfi running too hot and being too picky. Will try this board as soon as the TRUE arrives

[003]

How are you guys cooling the chipset on this board?
Just some fans on the provided dissy or second market stuff like TR?

DangerDen MPC-Universal on the NB, Thermalright HR-05 IFX on the SB.

[RobPuba]

Rampage Are The Best

[RealTelstar]

I found that water cooling the NB is unnecessary. I took an old CPU fan and found some screws with pointed tips and screwed the fan onto the NB heatsink. This is probably not needed anyway, but I feel better about the temps, now 35c at 435FSB and 1.41v. Doing this also cooled down the south bridge substantially. Temps were up to 59c before.

Which size? I'm thinking of doing a similar thing.
Mind to post a picture?

[RealTelstar]

DangerDen MPC-Universal on the NB, Thermalright HR-05 IFX on the SB.

Oh i mean at air. Do you feel the SB needs a special cooling or just played safe?

[RealTelstar]

I have come to the conclusion that this motherboard simply owns, hands down.

Got my 8GB of G.skill DDR2 1066 rated RAM running stable at DDR2 1083, with the FSB at 451, cpu at 3.6GHz.

All I did was set the RAM to it's rated voltage, and that was that. Didn't miss with any of the timings or RAM-related settings. Now I am going to back down on all the volts until I am stable with the least possible voltages.

Cool I hope to achieve a similar result.
Any update on lowering something?

[Xelation]

BTW Guys found a Intel X48 chipset driver on the MSI website for the X48C Platinum.

You can download it here: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...1&prod_no=1393

[ghost_recon88]

BTW Guys found a Intel X48 chipset driver on the MSI website for the X48C Platinum.

You can download it here: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...1&prod_no=1393

Very cool, thanks. Thats a lot newer then the latest one Intel has listed on their site (from 9/24/2007 I think).

[RealTelstar]

0401 has made official. Any improvements? They say it should improve memory compatibility.

[giorgos th.]

Pll 1.50V,SB : 1.075V,Vfsb 1.44V,NB: 1.75V,CPU GTL : 0.67x,NB GTL : 0.63x,PL9,333 strap,mem 1/1 - 5-5-5-5.
the NB without active cooling (~62C) and the 8500 on air...i stopped at 585...bios 0219..it came out from a 10' search..

[Stelios]

Well done !!! See how easy it was ?

[giorgos th.]

i`ll keep it for my self....hehehehehe
first time i`m glad to see 62C out of the NB....with 25-30C do you think it will get me 600??

[003]

Cool I hope to achieve a similar result.
Any update on lowering something?

Sorry, I got close to getting the memory stable at those speeds, but in the end they didn't want to cooperate. I have to settle for "only" DDR2 1083 with 8GB of RAM

[LostHawk]

0401 has made official. Any improvements? They say it should improve memory compatibility.

I am using 0401 now. I don't see much change in my case.
Apparently I can boot at 4GHz a bit more easily but I need to use this rig now so I don't have time for long stability tests.
Just tried 1.42 FSB VTT at 3.8GHz but it failed on OCCT rapidly.

It's safe to upgrade to 0401 so: you will have at least the same overclocking results.

BTW: grats to those people reaching 3.8GHz with safe CPU/VTT voltages. I am jealous
And this Rampage gave me faith back in Asus. I was about to give up with all the bad P35 experiences.

Thank you Xelation for the X48 chipset drivers link !

[003]

I'm also using 0401 official, I don't notice much difference. Have not really tested yet though.