Live MB OC Report :: ASUS Rampage Extreme

[eternal_fantasy]

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.

Great to have your knowledge here in this thread. However please post back when you have a RE to test your theory. What you said may very well be true on the P5E3 Premium, but remember that the BIOS is very mature on that motherboard. Rampage Extreme on the other hand have had 2 BIOS releases not counting what came with the board, which have functions advertised missing. Of the 2 released BIOS, 0403/0404, with the former I was able to clock my D9GTR kit to what I was able to on other motherboards (BlackOps/MaxiEx), but with the latter it won't post. Both BIOS will not alow me to POST with D9JNL kit, and both BIOS is unstable with my Samsung 2.2GB kit which works flawlessly on my Maximus Extreme. At the moment it is purely BIOS immaturity in my opinion. By your logic my D9GTR kit should not clock as highly as I could, as it didn't "stand a chance", or my micron kit just need low drive strength!

Another issue I have with some OCZ memory is that we have to manually "tune" the motherboard to get it to run at rated speeds, where as other memory manufactures' memory is almost a plug&play affair. Having owned a VERY cheap OCZ DDR3-2000 2x1GB kit and having it run at 1600Mhz 9-9-9-28 so the motherboard would BOOT is not a very cheerful experience, where as my Cellshock runs at DDR3-1800 7-6-5-18 as simple as dialing in the clocks in BIOS.

Which OCZ kit would you recommend that would allow me to clock it to DDR3-2000 8-8-8 on the Rampage Extreme with no more then 5 minutes in BIOS, and I'll hold you to your word and buy a pair to try.