Live MB OC Report :: ASUS Rampage Extreme

[Tony]

Guys im going to jump in here, I do NOT have an RE yet but I know why certain IC's work on some boards and some do not.

DRIVE STENGTH

Samsung needs weak drive, much like the old TCCD did, Micron needs stronger drive, some of the IC's need really strong drive.

Talking to Praz who has been beating on the T2/3R for weeks now he mentioned the cellshock issues that DFI were having and how he got his to work...a massive increase in drive, he then mentioned he had found the sammy DDR3 needs next to no drive on the T3R where the micron needs a lot more drive.

So, those saying cheap and chearfull OCZ need to look at the bigger picture here, I have found all newer bios files on Asus boards are being tuned away from Micron and more to Samsung based modules, I spent 14 hrs tuning some sammy using 1.25V NB on the P5E3 Premium at 2000MHZ 8-8-8-26, the ONLY way this ram would stand a chance of doing this is if it needed next to no drive at all, with Micron running the exact same speeds I need 1.5V+ on the NB.

I asked Asus to add some kind of memory drive to the bios files on ther X48 Premium, they need to do the same on this board, so it gives the owners of Micron dimms a chance of hitting some awesome speeds, and those dimms that don't work to well will suddenly start clocking well

DFI did this ages ago with the NF4, I had a board purely tuned for TCCD, it would not even boot with Micron or Hynix DDR1, thank god they changed the boards prior to sale so it worked with everything.

Motherboard manufacturers are in a FSB race at the moment., along with that Asus have entered into a memory overclock race fueled by screenshots of 2500MHZ+ memory....ofcourse they want more as they have to win, hence why bios files are tuned around those dimms that do these incredible speeds.


So pester Asus to add DQ drive etc bios and the Micron based memory etc that may not work so well will stand a chance.