X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[mikeyakame]

Zucker,

I spent a few hours last night testing 1N command rate at 1066mhz, nearly got it down to 80 errors in Memtest Test #5 low mem range, down from 8000 when I first started. I think errors are my board, will see in a few days.

[Zucker2k]

Zucker,

I spent a few hours last night testing 1N command rate at 1066mhz, nearly got it down to 80 errors in Memtest Test #5 low mem range, down from 8000 when I first started. I think errors are my board, will see in a few days.

Woah! Really? What FSB?

[mikeyakame]

Woah! Really? What FSB?

Only 400Mhz. Thats all my busted board will let me do at the moment. 9 x 400 isn't 100% stable but 8 x 400 is fine, DDR2-1111 but PL is 9. Latency is around 62-63ns. Best it'll go.

Heres the settings I came up with!

At 1002Mhz: G.Skill PI8800 2x2GB

5-5-5-14-3-50-5-3-1N 9-3-5-4-6-4-6 14-5-1-6-6 2.0V

CMD Skew A Advance 25ps
CMD Skew B Advance 25ps
CLK Skew A Advance 100ps
CLK Skew B Advance 100ps
AI Clock Twister Light
DRAM Static Read Disabled
NB Clock Skew 100ps
CPU Clock skew 200ps
PL 9
Vnb 1.45
DRAM CTL/CHA/CHB REF Auto (these worked best haha only auto values that work better than manual selection)

Like I said my board is busted so I have alot of stuff disabled I usually use cause it's even more broken with them enabled right now! Even have Loadline disabled at present.

[Alien Grey]

Zucker,

I spent a few hours last night testing 1N command rate at 1066mhz, nearly got it down to 80 errors in Memtest Test #5 low mem range, down from 8000 when I first started. I think errors are my board, will see in a few days.

DRAM Command Skew could have helped to run your memory at 1066MHz with Command Rate 1N. Unfortunately we didn't ask it to be implemented in the BIOS.

[Zucker2k]

DRAM Command Skew could have helped to run your memory at 1066MHz with Command Rate 1N. Unfortunately we didn't ask it to be implemented in the BIOS.

I was just playing with 1t clocking here; not fun at all. What a waste of potential. Anyway, one of my cores is messing with my overclocks. Why don't we ask for individual clock skews/gtls? They do that, we stop bothering them.

[mikeyakame]

I was just playing with 1t clocking here; not fun at all. What a waste of potential. Anyway, one of my cores is messing with my overclocks. Why don't we ask for individual clock skews/gtls? They do that, we stop bothering them.

So you tried the 1N command rate aye Hows your head doing?

I found I needed to advance CMD Skew about half the amount I had to advance CLK skew on mine.

We did ask for individual clock skews and GTLs, Asus guys asked why do we need them LOL ouch I say.

We can keep bugging though. We'll wait and see when the next beta bios comes out as they are supposed to be adding tREF timing. Perhaps one of my other many requested options will be added too who knows. I'm pretty sure their bios programmers have their hands full at the moment working on all the I7 bios problems they've got heh!

[Shiranui Gen-An]

We did ask for individual clock skews and GTLs, Asus guys asked why do we need them LOL ouch I say.

Well you could turn that around on them and ask why were those options available on the P5E3 Premium, P5Q Deluxe, Maximus II Formula, etc. if we didn't need them.

[Zucker2k]

So you tried the 1N command rate aye Hows your head doing?

I found I needed to advance CMD Skew about half the amount I had to advance CLK skew on mine.

We did ask for individual clock skews and GTLs, Asus guys asked why do we need them LOL ouch I say.

We can keep bugging though. We'll wait and see when the next beta bios comes out as they are supposed to be adding tREF timing. Perhaps one of my other many requested options will be added too who knows. I'm pretty sure their bios programmers have their hands full at the moment working on all the I7 bios problems they've got heh!

I had tried 1N clocking with Maximus Formula/Rampage Formula in the past with dismal success; same story with this bios.

We do need individual gtl control; also lower gtl than 62x would be very helpful. Asus' tactics is equal to neutering in order to promote sales of their newer offerings. This board is very capable as it is, but it can get better easily - all that is needed is for the decision-makers to issue the order.

[Alien Grey]

We do need individual gtl control; also lower gtl than 62x would be very helpful. Asus' tactics is equal to neutering in order to promote sales of their newer offerings. This board is very capable as it is, but it can get better easily - all that is needed is for the decision-makers to issue the order.

I totally agree with that. That's why we should try to convince them that a BIOS on our Rampage Formula needs these settings. It's a X48 board. This chipset was made by Intel for performance and needs a BIOS with all these settings available. Anything less isn't acceptable.
Although the CPU and NB Clocks Skew, that they added in the BIOS gives us better stability and higher clocks, it doesn't fix all the problems.
I still have to inform them about what we think of this BIOS but I'll wait for that till I tested this BIOS with my G.Skill memory at 1200MHz.
When I'm going to inform them I'll need an explanation with what we need in the BIOS and Why we need it. The "Why" is very important. That's the only way to convince them.
And don't worry the person at ASUS that i'm going to send it to is going to understand everything that we're talking about. That's why it's so hard to convince them.