UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[vtss120204]

Hay everyone

Thay just rang me up and asked me if my memory is dual or tripple set and basically its only dual set at the least since it only came out as dual sets when i got it for my striker II extreme and he just told me that the board will run on dual but the cpu mainly meant for tripple set and i explained to him that i wont get a tripple set for like 2 months or so since i had to build my money up again since i spent it on the speakers Logitech 5.1 5500 Z and the Rampage II and the cpu and the cpu cooler that kinda brought my money down and unable to afford the memory at this current time.

But he goes nah its ok the board will run dual set as well just thort u may need to know so he says that it posted and he has to reasemble the board back in the case and that again and give me a call so it should be ane time now for it to be picked up..

But i also need to be sure to get my powersupply cables n stuff back and make sure nothing is missing and of course the LCD poster.. I hope its not been plugged in the board or else it be hanging around when u carry the case out and it be in the way of things if its set on the table.

Now if its able to post when i get it the first thing i gotta do is check if its the lattest bios if its not i hope theres no harm updating it once i put vista in.

Ahh these new boards do have a big twitch to it.

izzyreb02 I think it's probably your ram aswell,I used to run that same ram in my old striker 2 extreme,and that stuff needs 1.8v,it's got to be the cause I recon.

[dejanh]

Update from Asus on the TDP limit issue (I quote the email reply to me)

"I've put forward your test procedure to TPE HQ for check.
Our engineer is testing and studying this issue now.
We didn't consider putting the TDP/TDC limit option to our BIOS menu at initial design because this function is no useful to our boards.
Our designer is now checking whether we should put this function in our BIOS menu.
It will takes some time. Anyway, I'll update the statue if I got news.
Thanks"

[izzyreb02]

izzyreb02 I think it's probably your ram aswell,I used to run that same ram in my old striker 2 extreme,and that stuff needs 1.8v,it's got to be the cause I recon.

Yeah well it seems as tho they got it all worked out. I dont know how really but i know my ram is kinda like wants more voltage than the default settings is thats on the board.

But now I wont get my board till sumtime tommorrow. hopefully.. coz they still doing all the cables n that and they closed at 4 so its about 3pm now in australia.

But I will have a check through the bios to make sure everything is alrite and stuff and see if they either added the lattest bios or what in.

Do u think i shuld update the bios aneway just incase?

But i will get myself a tripple set memory in time though.

How did u get ur board running? did u get urself a new pair of tripple set memory or did u get ur comp in service just for it to post with the same memory as i have?

[vtss120204]

Yeah well it seems as tho they got it all worked out. I dont know how really but i know my ram is kinda like wants more voltage than the default settings is thats on the board.

But now I wont get my board till sumtime tommorrow. hopefully.. coz they still doing all the cables n that and they closed at 4 so its about 3pm now in australia.

But I will have a check through the bios to make sure everything is alrite and stuff and see if they either added the lattest bios or what in.

Do u think i shuld update the bios aneway just incase?

But i will get myself a tripple set memory in time though.

How did u get ur board running? did u get urself a new pair of tripple set memory or did u get ur comp in service just for it to post with the same memory as i have?

That's good,least you got it soughted out,yeah I would deffently upgrade to the latest bios,depends what you got as a bios,my board had a really early bios,the latest is 903,but I found that 805 bios works the best for me.

Yeah I was going to use the old 4gb from the striker 2 extreme board,but decided to sell it of and grab the tripple kit of corsair dominator,pccasegear have it going for around $509 I think,it was actually cheaper to buy the new 6gb tripple kit of corsair dominator than my old 4gb kit of corsair dominator for the striker board,which was around $800.

I put the new system together and it booted up straight away,and it absolutely runs like a dream compared to my old striker 2 extreme board.

I think once you get the ram soughted out,you won't have any problems.

[BringerOdeath]

Okay guys, made a lil progress I think.

Found bclk @ 200 stable (1.412v)
Best (vista bootable) multi stuck at 19x (1.40 vcore stable)

HT - ON
Uncore @ 3408
QPI Link @ 7218/MT
Dram @ 1203 (using 6x with relaxed timings)
Vdimm @ 1.65
PLL @ 1.812
IOH @ 1.219
ICH @ 1.11

I tried increasing voltage on everything individually but nothing seems to get me into Vista. Not sure if its the memory seeing how they are running under spec and cooling isn't an issue (66*C max LinX).

Any ideas on how to get past 19x wall fellas?

Thanks,
Lou.

Well, I can do 19x216@4.104 stable at 1.488v. I can't do 20x200 above 3.9ghz with HT on, yet I can go to 4.3ghz stable with HT off at 1.544v.....I will just have to get a new chip......

[izzyreb02]

That's good,least you got it soughted out,yeah I would deffently upgrade to the latest bios,depends what you got as a bios,my board had a really early bios,the latest is 903,but I found that 805 bios works the best for me.

Yeah I was going to use the old 4gb from the striker 2 extreme board,but decided to sell it of and grab the tripple kit of corsair dominator,pccasegear have it going for around $509 I think,it was actually cheaper to buy the new 6gb tripple kit of corsair dominator than my old 4gb kit of corsair dominator for the striker board,which was around $800.

I put the new system together and it booted up straight away,and it absolutely runs like a dream compared to my old striker 2 extreme board.

I think once you get the ram soughted out,you won't have any problems.

Thats odd coz the 4 gig dominator pack only cost me about $649

But aneway I could build a another comp up since the striker II board had the QX9770 cpu in it with the Zalman 9700NT and all it really needs is the memory and I was thinking of upgrading the second computer with the striker II with it and ram n cpu in it. But it does have a less powerful graphics card tho.. (7600GT) till i get myself either a pair of the new cards, that either Ati or nvidia will release new beast cards by the time Im ready to upgrade the cards.

But the really good thing is that with this board i wont be stuck with one graphics card vendor and also im pretty sure when i overclock the 920 it be prolly be faster than the current QX9770 cpu.

But i was also thinking gettin the 965 in the begining but then thort nah.. Intel is going to make the 12mb cache extreme cpu for the i7 so it be kinda a waste to get that. So i thort just get the 920 since its easily to overclock and maybe a bit hot but my cpu cooler will dealt with it

Man not having my board at the momment, does make things boring around here.

All the things i need is the CREATIVE Sound Blaster X-Fi TITANIUM FATAL1TY CHAMPION Series, CORSAIR TR3X TRIPLE PACK DOMINATOR 6gig (3x2gig DDR3) TR3X-1600C8D 1600mhz
and the 2 powerful graphics card. But this time i be doing a good research on which out of the 2 is the fastest for gaming and the games i play as well when im ready to upgrade the video cards.

[T_Flight]

Glad to see you're making progress izzy. I hope you get that thing going. Sometimes these things can be a little finicky to get running. I had a small issue with a video card that actually worked when I setup my system, but would red light and just stop working. It was a pain in the butt to diagnose because my PSU was good and everything, and the card would only do it radomly, but thank goodness I went with EVGA and they got me taken care of. I had a card cross shipped and installed and got it going. They have alot of options for RMA's there. It came in handy too.

Sometimes, like in this case, a piece of hardware just doesn't wanna cooperate even though it works fine on another system. The trick is to isolate it. I guessed the RAM because of the voltage. I figured that was a likely suspect. It IS odd though that the LCD Poster did not go through to the DET RAM string though. That's kinda unusual.

It would be highly unsual to have a DOA board. It does happen, but it is the last thing I would suspect until I had ruled everything else out. I'm glad they looked that thing over and got you going.

[jcniest5]

Okay, here's my 4.2Ghz OC SuperPI test. I follow the guide a few pages back.

Crappy memory: DDR3-1333 running as DDR3-1600 in 2N (2T) Timing.

Memory timing as: 10-10-10-24 2N
1M = 09.906s
32M = 10m 51.687s

Memory timing as: 9-9-9-24 2N
1M = 09.875s
32M = 10m 48.328s

Temp sucks as all cores (@1.48125V) were hovering around 75 (ouch!) under loaded.

Going to lower the vcore little by little to see how low I can go without sacrificing stability.

Now running with vcore of 1.40000V and running OCCPT torture test on the CPU. Next target is 1.35000V.

Also, will try 1N (1T) to see if it is stable (somehow I highly doubt it) but it's worth a shot.

VDimm is currently at 1.6346V (or something - down from 1.65481V or something). Gonna also try just 1.6V and see how it goes.

I should also mention that HT is Disabled.

[BringerOdeath]

Okay, here's my 4.2Ghz OC SuperPI test. I follow the guide a few pages back.

Crappy memory: DDR3-1333 running as DDR3-1600 in 2N (2T) Timing.

Memory timing as: 10-10-10-24 2N
1M = 09.906s
32M = 10m 51.687s

Memory timing as: 9-9-9-24 2N
1M = 09.875s
32M = 10m 48.328s

Temp sucks as all cores (@1.48125V) were hovering around 75 (ouch!) under loaded.

Going to lower the vcore little by little to see how low I can go without sacrificing stability.

Now running with vcore of 1.40000V and running OCCPT torture test on the CPU. Next target is 1.35000V.

Also, will try 1N (1T) to see if it is stable (somehow I highly doubt it) but it's worth a shot.

VDimm is currently at 1.6346V (or something - down from 1.65481V or something). Gonna also try just 1.6V and see how it goes.

I should also mention that HT is Disabled.

Is this with Ht and Turbo on?

[BringerOdeath]

http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/produc...roducts_id=326

Check out this NB/SB cooler from EK for the rampage II extreme. I haven't seen it before, has anyone tried it yet? Plus there is a new EK Supreme LT that was just added to their site today....I wonder how well this one cools, it seems cheaper....

[jcniest5]

Is this with Ht and Turbo on?

HT is Off, Turbo and EIST (SpeedStep) are On.

[peebee]

http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/produc...roducts_id=326

Check out this NB/SB cooler from EK for the rampage II extreme. I haven't seen it before, has anyone tried it yet? Plus there is a new EK Supreme LT that was just added to their site today....I wonder how well this one cools, it seems cheaper....

That Block was already used by many Maximus II Formula Users, maybe there is an answer. That block seems to be best solution, before removing all the nice Heatpipe system.

That EK LT looks like the old EK-Wave

[jcniest5]

Okay, I know an hour torture test is nothing, but it passed without any error, so here I go, changing something a little tighter and see what happens...

[jasonelmore]

I'm glad Engineers at Asus are currently Researching the problem. I think we got the message across to them haha. Were likely to see a bios in a month to 6 weeks with the option. Good job guys

[Supafish111]

Well, I can do 19x216@4.104 stable at 1.488v. I can't do 20x200 above 3.9ghz with HT on, yet I can go to 4.3ghz stable with HT off at 1.544v.....I will just have to get a new chip......

Hey Bringer, what VTT/QPI are you using to get to 216?

Appears my CPU is a fat lazy dog as T-flight suggested. Gonna give it another go tomorrow morning, wish me luck!

By the way, I'm using the EK full block for this board. Check pics on previous page. All in all it does the job but mounting has lots of room for improvement.

Lou.

[jcniest5]

Okay, lowering 2N to 1N was a no go, couldn't even complete a 32M test. Lowering DDR3-1600 with 9-9-9-24 to DDR3-1200 with 8-8-8-20 gave me a score of: 1M = 09.850s and 32M = 09m 30.656s. So, a lower frequency and latency proves to be a better performer than high frequency and latency.

[izzyreb02]

Glad to see you're making progress izzy. I hope you get that thing going. Sometimes these things can be a little finicky to get running. I had a small issue with a video card that actually worked when I setup my system, but would red light and just stop working. It was a pain in the butt to diagnose because my PSU was good and everything, and the card would only do it radomly, but thank goodness I went with EVGA and they got me taken care of. I had a card cross shipped and installed and got it going. They have alot of options for RMA's there. It came in handy too.

Sometimes, like in this case, a piece of hardware just doesn't wanna cooperate even though it works fine on another system. The trick is to isolate it. I guessed the RAM because of the voltage. I figured that was a likely suspect. It IS odd though that the LCD Poster did not go through to the DET RAM string though. That's kinda unusual.

It would be highly unsual to have a DOA board. It does happen, but it is the last thing I would suspect until I had ruled everything else out. I'm glad they looked that thing over and got you going.

Yeah Same here. Well its going to be a annoying case rather actually coz when i get it i only have a few hours to do things on it like configure raid 0 with it, install vista and drivers, then format the raid 0 parition and then most likely update the bios but then i may not even had time to install ane games.. Coz by the time i do, it be either afternoon or nite time n thats where i have to sleep early for work on saturday... Ahhh..

In ur signature on the memory about the Adata memory.. We do sell them here in the austraila but how come u dont have it avaiable in ur area yet?

[peebee]

I'm glad Engineers at Asus are currently Researching the problem. I think we got the message across to them haha. Were likely to see a bios in a month to 6 weeks with the option. Good job guys

I really hope so!

[BringerOdeath]

Hey Bringer, what VTT/QPI are you using to get to 216?

Appears my CPU is a fat lazy dog as T-flight suggested. Gonna give it another go tomorrow morning, wish me luck!

By the way, I'm using the EK full block for this board. Check pics on previous page. All in all it does the job but mounting has lots of room for improvement.

Lou.

I am using 1.45v qpi, Yeah, I saw your block! This one on the EK website looks like a new revision with an acetel or plexi top!

[funk32]

Hey Bringer, what VTT/QPI are you using to get to 216?

Appears my CPU is a fat lazy dog as T-flight suggested. Gonna give it another go tomorrow morning, wish me luck!

By the way, I'm using the EK full block for this board. Check pics on previous page. All in all it does the job but mounting has lots of room for improvement.

Lou.

Ya im using the block too, i didnt have much of a issue mounting it. i had a bit of a problem with the EK X58 mosfet set

[Helli]

http://ekwaterblocks.com/shop/produc...roducts_id=326

Check out this NB/SB cooler from EK for the rampage II extreme. I haven't seen it before, has anyone tried it yet? Plus there is a new EK Supreme LT that was just added to their site today....I wonder how well this one cools, it seems cheaper....

yep, i'm using it. But i think cooling the NB/SB is not needed. Without the
EK Waterblook i got 43 C with this Waterblock 33 C.



Helli

[cstkl1]

curious
just want to ask
whats the cpu score for 3dmark06 for 20x200 on vista 64 sp1??
i am getting only 6900

[dejanh]

I'm glad Engineers at Asus are currently Researching the problem. I think we got the message across to them haha. Were likely to see a bios in a month to 6 weeks with the option. Good job guys

Let's hope that they do not just come back to us with "this is a function of 965 XE only".

[jcniest5]

Any ideas why this failed even at stock speed?

[dejanh]

Any ideas why this failed even at stock speed?

Could be a bad chip. I've had one in the i7 940 flavor.