UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[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