Live MB OC Report :: ASUS Rampage Extreme

[Solarfall]

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@Mike Well, at 1800 with the timings posted a few back yup, I'm as stable as can be. However, last night I tried to move them up, down, sideways and for some reason the stable settings that worked at 1800 WILL NOT work for anything else. Go back to 1800 and solid as a rock. I even tried my 2x2 Diablo & 2x1 Cellshock settings (which are identical and stable) to no avail. I think I ended up corrupting window @ 3 in the morning and quit in disgust!! No time for it tonight as I have to overclock the wife or things could get miserable around here Will be back in a couple days with hopefully some 4x1 results. And yes, they are the Cellshock Black

damn!! sounds like your doing something wrong or your sticks just simply suck.. i can bench with mine at 6-6-6-18 at 1750 mhz (2.25v)..
and with 7-7-7-18 over 2000 mhz (if i remember right those settings start to become unstable at 2060mhz at those latencys)

[Expat GriZ]

damn!! sounds like your doing something wrong or your sticks just simply suck.. i can bench with mine at 6-6-6-18 at 1750 mhz (2.25v)..
and with 7-7-7-18 over 2000 mhz (if i remember right those settings start to become unstable at 2060mhz at those latencys)

Is that 2x1 or 4x1? 2x1 they are great, just having a hard time with the 4x1. If you are in a 4x1 configuration, would you mind passing on your settings?

Thanx in advance

[Solarfall]

Is that 2x1 or 4x1? 2x1 they are great, just having a hard time with the 4x1. If you are in a 4x1 configuration, would you mind passing on your settings?

Thanx in advance

mine are 2x1.. generally speaking 4x1 dont seem to overclock like the 2x1.there is no special setting just up your volts, also the ram strap might play some role in getting the max out from those sticks (im still getting to know this board)

btw the fsb changing from the fly works surprisingly well when i tested it yesterday while benching 3dmark

[Churchdown Yank]

Thanks for the help Zeus - she is up and running now!

I went through your list and threw in a few other things along the way... I got down to the next to the last bullet in my clip of tricks before the dreaded RMA. I reseated the E8600 (then was going to try my QX6850) - and that did it. So I put it all back together again and am typing this on it now!

Have flashed both bios to 0601 and will start playing as soon as I'm done updating drivers, formatting HDD, etc.

Thanks again - more to come!

[Expat GriZ]

Thanks for the help Zeus - she is up and running now Thanks again - more to come!

Glad to hear you got it up and running!!! Looking forward to your results!!

[Churchdown Yank]

Hi All,

Preliminary results are in - it is easy to overclock this setup!

I was able to quickly take out the available overhead in everything, and will briefly share results - although I'm not going to bother with screenies, because it's all been done before here, and by more qualified people than me.

However, I will share my experience on the 2x1 vs. 4x1 Gb RAM issue though, because that might help someone.

With 2x1 without too much trouble I was up to 500 x 9 and 2000 MHz (400 Strap) on the Corsairs, granted with timings a little loose at 8-8-8-20 1T, 2.2V. Could not push the FSB or multiplier much more without really ramping up the volts/heat (I'm only on air, so I think 510 was actually where I maxed out today).

Since Far Cry 2 arrived today - I was eager to have the "low hanging fruit" and get on with some informal stress testing! When I added the second 2x1 it really made a difference. Could not boot into windows without dropping down to 450 x 10 (kept the 400 strap for 1800 MHz on the RAM) although at those settings I was able to tighten up the timings a little bit to 7-7-7-20 1T. This is actually just the advertised performance though.

Certainly there is more optimisation that could be done with both settings - especially the 4x1 setup. I really haven't gotten into that yet, but preliminary investigations indicate that there is a big difference in 2x1 and 4x1.

Maybe everyone knew that already! In any case - I'm off to Africa! Be back later with more questions.