Live MB OC Report :: ASUS Rampage Extreme

[RLM]

rddave, maybe I'm missing someting, but I think you're being unrealistic about your fsb with either the qx6850 or qx9650. Certainly for a 24/7 stable setup.

The point of the QX's is that their multipliers are unlocked. You could try instead 10x400, 445 x 9 or 420 x 9.5 even.

If you want high FSBs then the dual cores or possibly the newer revision quads like the Q9650 are a better choice.

Just a thought

RLM

[RLM]

Don't know if you commented on my post, but thanks in any case. I will try to up the vcore and see what happens. And I'll up the VTT a bit more maybe 1.4 or maybe a bit higher and see if it will help.

I still need to put the QX9650 in and see if I can get 450FSB stable.

VoodooProphetII, I wasn't commenting on your post sorry. Just sharing some observations. If it helps though

I wouldn't think you need 1.4 VTT for 450FSB. 1.35 should be enough. In fact nearer the beginning of this thread Eternal Fantasy posted settings for a Quad at 450fsb.

Is that power supply of your's going to be up to the job? A GTX280 and QX9650?

RLM

[3oh6]

we need to show you where the multi-Quote and edit buttons are RLM

there really isn't a need for back to back to back posts...just combine them all in one

[RLM]

we need to show you where the multi-Quote and edit buttons are RLM

Sounds far too complicated

RLM

ps. Point taken

[MikeMK]

I wouldn't think you need 1.4 VTT for 450FSB. 1.35 should be enough. In fact nearer the beginning of this thread Eternal Fantasy posted settings for a Quad at 450fsb.
RLM

I can confirm my results with my QX9560 - does 456x9 prime stable, with VTT @ 1.34v as a guide, so as RLM said, 1.4v shouldnt be needed.

[quattro_]

my q9650 is stable @400x9 3.6 with 1.15 vcore in bios in windows 1.128v & LLD disabled !

[Pntgrd]

I can confirm my results with my QX9560 - does 456x9 prime stable, with VTT @ 1.34v as a guide, so as RLM said, 1.4v shouldnt be needed.

Mike, have you posted your settings for this. I am stumbling around trying to find the right settings to start from.

[MikeMK]

I posted a screen grab with memset a page or two back. Im at work atm, but when I get home I'll post my full settings

[Zeus]

For what it's worth, got 13K across the board in Everest.

Tried PL at over 600FSB but it's not even 1M stable with 1.7V.

I have a feeling that stupid heatpipeconstruction is holding things back big time.

Really want Bitspower to hurry with their block.

[Smooth]

I have a feeling that stupid heatpipeconstruction is holding things back big time.

Really want Bitspower to hurry with their block.

The mad thing with this heatpipe is:

1. ASUS uses too less TCM
2. The pressure is to weak

If u u remount the heatpipe and fix this two disadvantages u get lot better temperatures :
ad 1.) I used Arctic Silver as TCM
ad 2.) I mounted some washers on the backside of the MB

In result I got better Temps - on the NB up to 15°C less.

I attached some pics to show the orginal TCM - I think it´s no wonder that temps are that high !

[Zeus]

Thanks for your suggestion but i have already done both.

Temps are ~40ºC idle with 1.42V ~47ºC load but with higher voltages the NB seems to become unstable.

A good waterblock directly mounted onto the NB will take off 10º easy i think.

The bitspower block covers both south and north bridge as well as the NB vrm mosfets, i don't really want to mess with seperate blocks and stick on heatsinks.

Imagine a copper heatsinks falls off the NB vrm mosfets (it's only held with thermal tape), it will fall straight onto the videocard!

[Smooth]

I am thinking about relacing the heatpipe with the watercooler from MIPS :

found @ www.mips-computer.de

[fox3]

Well it appears I will need to RMA my CPU. NewEgg is honoring an RMA on it though I have passed their 30 day requirement. They are sure to get more of my business in the future. Thumbs Up for the Egg.

I am not sure if this board is able to play nice with the Q9650. From what I am told the 16 phase power causes problems with the CPU. I called ASUS and they seem to think it is the CPU , it drops two cores at random, and if the problem persists it could be the Power Regulator or something. I am not able to test so off goes the CPU.

What say you, is the CPU a concern with this boards 16 phase.
It is batch #L822B363, pack date 8/13/08 with a 1.25V max. I really hate to RMA but my hands are tied here due to time constraints. Should I put the new CPU in another board and get a dualie?

[rddave]

OK i am now very cofused

I have played several games for over an hour each done loads on the system and everything is absoluly fine and dandy, BUT, I am still yet to pass a single stress test such as prime, super PI 32M (16M is ok and passes).

If anyone has any ideas as to what to look for or some changes to make it would help alot as i am now out of ideas.

Cheers

[Expat GriZ]

For what it's worth, got 13K across the board in Everest.

Tried PL at over 600FSB but it's not even 1M stable with 1.7V.

I have a feeling that stupid heatpipeconstruction is holding things back big time.

Really want Bitspower to hurry with their block.

Dude, for what its worth!?!? .... that is just phenomenal!! I'm also waiting for the Bitspower block but ....well......(no comment) bought EK blocks for the NB & Chipsets, waiting for a mips for the SB but I can confirm that with the EK on the NB, temps haven't gone above 30 deg and I've pushed some radical volts through the NB trying to get the mythical 6 Ghz. Have hit 5.92 but @ 1.8V it still wasn't happening so I backed off before I fried the board. Great run, might still have to pick up a pair of 2 gb Diablos....

[RLM]

OK i am now very cofused

I have played several games for over an hour each done loads on the system and everything is absoluly fine and dandy, BUT, I am still yet to pass a single stress test such as prime, super PI 32M (16M is ok and passes).

If anyone has any ideas as to what to look for or some changes to make it would help alot as i am now out of ideas.

Cheers

RDDave, look back over the last few pages, and there's a load of info and bios settings to try. Basically you need to keep at it.

Here's one I posted for starters. Not far off from your target overclock.

Note no guarantees it will work with yours but it's something to work from. At the moment you seem to be overly relying on Auto. You need to at least set your voltages manually.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1134

For what it's worth, got 13K across the board in Everest.

Tried PL at over 600FSB but it's not even 1M stable with 1.7V.

I have a feeling that stupid heatpipeconstruction is holding things back big time.

Really want Bitspower to hurry with their block.

Now you're just showing off

RLM

[quattro_]

anyone with a Q9650 can you please share your settings for 450fsb im having a hard time figuring it out .

[zlojack]

anyone with a Q9650 can you please share your settings for 450fsb im having a hard time figuring it out .

I don't know what RAM you use, quattro, but here are some settings that MushkinGreg got stable.

[quattro_]

I don't know what RAM you use, quattro, but here are some settings that MushkinGreg got stable.

thanks mate, ill report back very soon .

[Chruschef]

what do you guys think of the TR-03 NB/SB secondary cooling?


The fusion blocks are just advertising stuff, amirite?

[rockqc]

I seem to have a problem with installing Vista I think and was wondering if anyone had an insights.

The system posts and I can get into the BIOS and set boot order and make sure the CPU is at stock as well as manually setting the RAM to 1333MHz etc. That seems to be working fine although the LCD poster displays CPU_INIT most of the time (sometimes it shows the timer), so I don't know what's up with that.

I have a Blu Ray Pioneer SATA drive and Windows Vista x64 will load the files and then it stops at the collecting information screen and says "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing, please insert the CD/DVD/Floppy or USB drive with the drivers etc."
I assume these are on the ASUS support disc or ? When I put the ASUS disc and let it rescan, it shows up nothing and when I manually browse for the files or use the IDE drive as a secondary and browse, neither of them read the disc and says Windows doesn't recognise the format. Pioneer's site only has the latest firmware and nothing else, so I'm kind of lost on what it's looking for or where to find the driver.

Second problem or maybe related to the first, I bought an IDE DVD drive to see if that works with the install. The BIOS recognises the drive (as well as the Blu Ray drive I forgot to add), but when it comes to loading the Vista files initially, the IDE drive doesn't seem to load them. I've tested the drive in another machine, so I know it's working..but it keeps saying "Please put the boot disc in and press any key etc etc". I've tested the Vista disc (the Blu Ray loads it fine) in another machine and the drive could read the files.

I've played around with a few settings in the BIOS but nothing seems to be helping. Any one have an idea on what's the problem ?

[MnM]

Hmmmm not sure if it applies to you as you mentioned nothing about raid but I had the exact problem. The issue I had was because I had ICH9-R set as raid in bios and also had a raid card in the system. With this configuration I was getting the same error message as you (A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing, please insert the CD/DVD/Floppy or USB drive with the drivers etc). Basically no matter what raid drives I had on my usb (ICH9-R and my raid card's driver) I wasnt able to load them and could never install Windows.
The solution for me was to either remove the raid card from the system (in which case I had to load ICH9-R drivers) or to disable ICH9-R and make it Enhanced (or something like that in bios but not Raid) and then I could load the card's drivers and install Windows.
Maybe this info will help you.

[Zeus]

Dude, for what its worth!?!? .... that is just phenomenal!! I'm also waiting for the Bitspower block but ....well......(no comment) bought EK blocks for the NB & Chipsets, waiting for a mips for the SB but I can confirm that with the EK on the NB, temps haven't gone above 30 deg and I've pushed some radical volts through the NB trying to get the mythical 6 Ghz. Have hit 5.92 but @ 1.8V it still wasn't happening so I backed off before I fried the board. Great run, might still have to pick up a pair of 2 gb Diablos....

Thanks buddy.

That's what i figured, a block directly onto the NB chip will do wonders.
I could just go with an EK block on the NB and Enzotech mosfetsinks but then i'm gonna have to put some small sinks onto the NB pwm's.

The thought of one falling off straight onto my videocard scares the cr@p out of me, guess i have to be a little more patient and just go with bitspower's masterpiece, even though it will come with a nice price tag strapped to it.

Oh well, no pain no gain.

[Kensek]

anyone with a Q9650 can you please share your settings for 450fsb im having a hard time figuring it out .

Just read thru my Asus Forum Post. Also Vista Hurts you. But with XP easily did 4.3 GHz before going to a WC setup. Now it can do 505x9.

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

[quattro_]

Just read thru my Asus Forum Post. Also Vista Hurts you. But with XP easily did 4.3 GHz before going to a WC setup. Now it can do 505x9.

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

thanks, that will be helpful, im still no go for 450x9 i get a sudden blue screen upon loading windows!