UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[miahallen]

Lets try Rampage Bios 0903

[ 0903 ]
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Fixed the function for adjusting BCLK abnormal in TurboV when set BCLK > 200MHz in BIOS setup

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...treme-0903.zip

I just flashed myself. Seems ok. Will try settings later.

Attachment 92250

How does the new BIOS do with 1000MHz+ mem speeds?

[BringerOdeath]

Got my new chip today, straight from the beast's mouth

Currently running 64-bit Prime stable (small, large, and blends tests) with 4-cores/8-threads at 21x200MHz (no turbo, straight 21x200MHz on the Core i7 940) with DRAM at 1603MHz with 7-8-7-20-1T timings at 1.40800V CPU/1.65681V DRAM and 1.35000V QPI/DRAM (VTT)

It's an "A" chip btw and all on air all the way

Did you Rma back to Intel?? By the way, what does the 903 bios fix??

[dejanh]

Did you Rma back to Intel?? By the way, what does the 903 bios fix??

Yeah, my chip had some stability issues even at stock speeds so I RMAed to Intel. I have to ship them back my old CPU now

[theonlybabyface]

Flashed to 903 and resume from sleep while overclocked works perfect now.

Also, as an added bonus, my memory bandwidth has gone up slightly and so have my 3DMarks...

EDIT: Scratch that...S3 worked a few times but gave me the infamous LOCKED the last time I tried.

[jasonelmore]

*Updated Bios FrontPage Links with new Beta Bios

[scaramonga]

No wonder....so you have the vent right behind your radiator with your fans pulling cold air in??

Yup buddy.

Vent is about a foot square and is required by law as ventilation for gas heating fumes. It just so happens that it sits nicely at back of RAD roughly 4 inches away. I have 3 Yate Loons pulling air from vent in through RAD Works rather well, until summer time comes along, when I reverse the fans to blow instead of pull

Load:

[ReVolut1on]

Flashed to 903 and resume from sleep while overclocked works perfect now.

Also, as an added bonus, my memory bandwidth has gone up slightly and so have my 3DMarks...

Nice! Hope others get S3 working too

[Brahmzy]

Nice! Hope others get S3 working too

Woah! This is huge! So can any others verify that sleep mode works now (especially in Vista x64)

This is why I waited to buy this board.

Can we assume ASUS will fix sleep on their other x58's with a BIOS update?

I've got my 920 and am stuck deciding on a board. I HAVE to have sleep ability.

[BringerOdeath]

Yeah, my chip had some stability issues even at stock speeds so I RMAed to Intel. I have to ship them back my old CPU now

I might have to do the same....Did they cross ship to you? My CPU gives me very low scores in benchmarks with HT on. My CPU scores are only 200 points higher in 3dmark with HT on and my shader scores nosedive....This happens even at stock speeds. If I turn Ht off I get huge gains although my CPU score stays at about 6500.....

[BringerOdeath]

Well, here is my 3dmark vantage score with physx off and quad sli on. This is with 4.1ghz in turbo mode with HT on. I can't go any higher with HT on no matter what voltage.....Scores fine with HT on, I just don't understand why 3dmark06 gives me way lower FPS and scores with HT on....Is there a patch I need to install? Maybe a config I have to mod?? Oh, I also decided to post some picks of my completed I7 rig!:P

[Relic27777]

So have we determined that QPI should be 0.05v lower than the vcore? I remember reading that somewhere along the line. Like If I need 1.45vcore to hit 200 x 21 then I should set 1.40v QPI?

[BringerOdeath]

yes, I use 1.45 qpi with voltage at 1.5v

[theonlybabyface]

So with the new bios (903) I am able to clock at 3800 mhz (HT on) with only 1.25 vcore and 1.25 vqpi. Nice...

Next up, to see if I can lower my volts for 4200mhz (HT on, Turbo on) which currently requires 1.41 vcore and 1.35 vqpi.

[Twist360]

hmm sry guys for my noobish style

but do u mean that the new BIOS update made :

- to disappear problem of cold-boot ?
- to disappear problem of overclocking ?

[dejanh]

I might have to do the same....Did they cross ship to you? My CPU gives me very low scores in benchmarks with HT on. My CPU scores are only 200 points higher in 3dmark with HT on and my shader scores nosedive....This happens even at stock speeds. If I turn Ht off I get huge gains although my CPU score stays at about 6500.....

Yes, they cross-shipped. It only takes 2-3 business days. I discussed my problems with the Intel tech first and he almost immediately said that it sounds like there is a cache problem on my chip and that I should RMA it. It took a few days to sort things out initially because I was doing this over the holidays, but after the holidays were done everthing was finished in 2 business days.

Honestly though, I am not sure that your chip is faulty. Getting the i7 920 to 4.0GHz+ is very good, and not a lot can do this. You just think that they can because all people that post on this forum go for the extreme OCs. A more realistic target for the i7 920 is 3.8GHz - 4.0GHz. As you can go past that you are okay.

The whole business with 3DMark06 may have to do with the OS more than anything. Are you running it in Vista or XP and do you have all service packs installed? 06 exhibits some strange behavior in Vista (at least Vista 64-bit) so I do not tend to run it in Vista. I tend to stick to XP for 06.

Also, keep in mind that 06 is quite old so anomalies are to be expected when running on newer hardware.

[BuLLets]

I've had the cold boot issue with my second rampage build using the dominator series of memory from day one. I had to go back to 0705 to reduce the number of cold boot failures. Also, had to lower the dimm voltage. I installed the 0903 beta bios last night and loaded setup defaults, had 4 or 5 cold boots and no issues so far. I'm hopeful they will lick this issue.

[Relic27777]

I've got my i920 running 4.2ghz w/ turbo on and did a maximum FPU stress test with Prime 95 and it ran fine for 13 hours. I then went to the Blend test so that the RAM was tested. I have 6gb Corsair Dominator 1600mhz running @1600mhz with all auto settings for timings except I brought it from 9-9-9-30 to 8-8-8-24 and 1.65v. It made it through 59 minutes of the test before crashing the comp. Any advice on where to go from here to gain some RAM stability? I'm currently going back to 9-9-9-30 to see if that fixes the problem but even if it does that means my RAM doesn't run at what it is stated it can do. Any help would be appreciated. If it helps I'm running BIOS 0805.

[fubarswe]

Honestly though, I am not sure that your chip is faulty. Getting the i7 920 to 4.0GHz+ is very good, and not a lot can do this. You just think that they can because all people that post on this forum go for the extreme OCs. A more realistic target for the i7 920 is 3.8GHz - 4.0GHz. As you can go past that you are okay.

The whole business with 3DMark06 may have to do with the OS more than anything. Are you running it in Vista or XP and do you have all service packs installed? 06 exhibits some strange behavior in Vista (at least Vista 64-bit) so I do not tend to run it in Vista. I tend to stick to XP for 06.

Also, keep in mind that 06 is quite old so anomalies are to be expected when running on newer hardware.

As dejanh says..,I wish more people would be satisfied with chips doing 4.0.., pushing more out of them needs extreme cooling and more tweaking...
Look at this 06 in Windows 7.., note loose timings.., not always tight is the trick.., rams are 1866 9-9-9-24

[cky2k6]

Does anyone else have this gap in clocks between 3.93ghz and 4ghz with a 19x multi? If I set it to 208 in bios, it will go down to 206.8, and if I set it to 209, it will go up to 210. 208 and 209 just plain don't work, which is pretty annoying, as 210 is already hitting the wall where I have to spike up my voltage to above 1.3v for any stability in prime and thus making the temps rise through the roof. The 20x multi is really unstable approaching 200, so 197 or 198 are not options as well, as they bluescreen on startup. Is there something I can do about this gap?

[BringerOdeath]

I got 4.05ghz with HT on turbo off. It was running at1.44v, but it bluescreened after 4 hours.....It bluescreend on prime 95 on a lrage fft, so it memory related. I upped vqpi to 1.4 from 1.3 asnd see if that makes a difference. Maybe up the cpu voltage a bit...

[BuLLets]

Using beta 0903 just now I got the cold boot, start-poweroff then hang cycle again. I'll try lowering the dimm voltage back to 1.57 and try again.

[btdvox]

Flashed to 903 and resume from sleep while overclocked works perfect now.

Also, as an added bonus, my memory bandwidth has gone up slightly and so have my 3DMarks...

EDIT: Scratch that...S3 worked a few times but gave me the infamous LOCKED the last time I tried.

Yeah I expereinced my first Locked issues today. I then powered it off manually and turned it back on and it stated OC failed which has happened a couple of times, but I know the OC is ok. Esp being 10 hours prime stable !

I know that the Maximus formula did the same thing- it took them awhile to fix it though.

Im sure they'll get to it.

btw are you from vancouver?

[If6was9]

Hi,
Im new
(sorry for my bad English, i'm Italian)

there is nobody with the ram that I have in signature that stay to 4.0ghz under 1.43 of v.core?


I have not yet seen any, can be the fault of the Corsair Dominator 1666 or a limit of CPU?


Case: Thermaltake Xaser VI lcs ° Cpu: Intel Core i7 920 @4.0Ghz ° CpuCooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE ° Mobo: Asus Rampage II Extreme ° Ram: Corsair Dominator XMS3 6Gb 3x2GB DDR3 1600Mhz Cas 8 ° Gpu: Gainward ATI HD4870x2 Rampage700 2048MB GS GLH ° Hdd: 2x WD 150 GB V.Raptor Raid0 + Samsung 1TB HD103UJ 32MB ° Psu: Corsair 1000HXEU ° Monitor Tv: Lcd Sharp Lc 42x20E Full HD ° Keyboard: Logitech diNovo Edge + Logitech MX Rev. Laser ° Vista Ultimate 64 SP1

[btdvox]

As dejanh says..,I wish more people would be satisfied with chips doing 4.0.., pushing more out of them needs extreme cooling and more tweaking...
Look at this 06 in Windows 7.., note loose timings.., not always tight is the trick.., rams are 1866 9-9-9-24

seems 3dmark 06 really favors ati and vantage really favors nvidia.

Ive had odd scores with 3dmark 06 and the new 180.84 drivers from nvidia- some of the runs were faster but some of them were really slow (meaning the tests themselves)

But vantage was smoking fast- 36K with Physx on

[BringerOdeath]

seems 3dmark 06 really favors ati and vantage really favors nvidia.

Ive had odd scores with 3dmark 06 and the new 180.84 drivers from nvidia- some of the runs were faster but some of them were really slow (meaning the tests themselves)

But vantage was smoking fast- 36K with Physx on

Are you running vista 64? I have strange issues with 3dmark o6 also. some tests are faster, while the next test will be slower....Funny thing is, when you turn off HT You get much higher FPS and scores in 3dmark06!! Vantage goes a bit higher on cpu though!!