X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[Alien Grey]

back in bios noticed that the fsb was up to 2,02V by it self any ideas

No idea. Can you you lower the voltage in the BIOS or is it stuck at 2.02V?

[greg.m]

No idea. Can you you lower the voltage in the BIOS or is it stuck at 2.02V?

Yes he can. I know that because, since i have this board, the same think has happend - 2 or 3 times - to me, especially after bad bios flashing. It has, unfortunatelly, happened to me to forget set default settings before flashing. i know but sometimes ........

[neo_rtr]

No idea. Can you you lower the voltage in the BIOS or is it stuck at 2.02V?

Yes i did

It come back!!
everest says the following just now
CPU Core 1.49 V
North Bridge Core 1.70 V
FSB VTT 2.02 V
South Bridge Core 1.12 V
South Bridge PLL 1.57 V

Really puzzzzled here


I am using the following values and when i go to Power is reporting the following
Bios set ......................Bios Reported
CPU Voltage 1.50625V..........1.488v
CPU PLL 1.60v...............1.744v
Dram Voltage 2.02v................2.16v
FSB Trm Vlt 1.50v.............. .1.696v
SB Trm Vlt 1.075v..............1.120v
SB 1.5v auto.................1.568v
LoadlineCalib Enabled
CPU GTL VRef 0.67x
NB GTL VRef 0.63x

[Alien Grey]

Try Clear CMOS again and while doing that disconnect the power and push the reset button while touching your case.
If that doesn't work. Do the same thing again. Power your system back on (don't load any settings)and try to flash it again with BIOS 0802. After flashing the BIOS again Clear CMOS.

I hope this might help.

[Alien Grey]

I did some testing today with BIOS 0802. I managed to pass test 5 in MemTest86+ V2.11 without errors with my OCZ Reapers HPC PC2-8500@1140MHz 5-5-5-15... and 1.96V in the BIOS, 8 X 475MHz 3.8GHz.

I used CPU Clock Skew -200 and NB Clock Skew -100.

I couldn't do that with previous BIOSes. The Clock Skews are doing their job.

[mikeyakame]

I did some testing today with BIOS 0802. I managed to pass test 5 in MemTest86+ V2.11 without errors with my OCZ Reapers HPC PC2-8500@1140MHz 5-5-5-15... and 1.96V in the BIOS, 8 X 475MHz 3.8GHz.

I used CPU Clock Skew -200 and NB Clock Skew -100.

I couldn't do that with previous BIOSes. The Clock Skews are doing their job.

Lovely mate!

I officially knight this bios:

best non-official most functional and stable alpha-beta release that almost never existed and only exists because some crazy owners asked for over 10 extra bios options and it was easier to steal code from other bios source trees than write new source tree code for features which have never apparently been questioned don't exist.

By the way I got a new toy to play with for the time my RF is sightseeing over the Asus garage.

DFI X48-LT T2R!

This is my "backup" board heh, bios looks fun though hope my RF needs an RMA so I got an excuse to keep playin with this a while heh. Gonna pull my RF out tonight and throw this board in! Being X48 with similar onboard components shouldn't have to do much at all. Wasn't too expensive and seemed like a good excuse to play intricately with a solid DFI board!

First thing I did was look at the bios settings in the manual and I thought I was imagining things. There wasn't a bios option listed there that didn't mean something to me, the option naming from DFI reflects the options actual function.

http://img.lanparty.tw/Upload/Catalo...LTX48_BIOS.pdf

Check that out and tell me how much sense the option naming actually makes, and seems like Jimmy from DFI took the time to explain how they work briefly in such a way that you don't need a PHD in engineering to understand what roles they each play to stabilize a high FSB frequency.

Just thought it was pretty cool thats all, don't think any other DDR2 board will ever touch the way the RF gives amazing feedback when you change settings blindly, I'll throw some screenshots up with the usual everest blah blah once I get some time into it overclocking, mostly I want to see how it compares to the RF that's what interests me.

[neo_rtr]

I would love to have the same from ASUS, explaining in such easy way the different functions.

[Alien Grey]

Lovely mate!

I officially knight this bios:

best non-official most functional and stable alpha-beta release that almost never existed and only exists because some crazy owners asked for over 10 extra bios options and it was easier to steal code from other bios source trees than write new source tree code for features which have never apparently been questioned don't exist.

By the way I got a new toy to play with for the time my RF is sightseeing over the Asus garage.

DFI X48-LT T2R!

This is my "backup" board heh, bios looks fun though hope my RF needs an RMA so I got an excuse to keep playin with this a while heh. Gonna pull my RF out tonight and throw this board in! Being X48 with similar onboard components shouldn't have to do much at all. Wasn't too expensive and seemed like a good excuse to play intricately with a solid DFI board!

First thing I did was look at the bios settings in the manual and I thought I was imagining things. There wasn't a bios option listed there that didn't mean something to me, the option naming from DFI reflects the options actual function.

http://img.lanparty.tw/Upload/Catalo...LTX48_BIOS.pdf

Check that out and tell me how much sense the option naming actually makes, and seems like Jimmy from DFI took the time to explain how they work briefly in such a way that you don't need a PHD in engineering to understand what roles they each play to stabilize a high FSB frequency.

Just thought it was pretty cool thats all, don't think any other DDR2 board will ever touch the way the RF gives amazing feedback when you change settings blindly, I'll throw some screenshots up with the usual everest blah blah once I get some time into it overclocking, mostly I want to see how it compares to the RF that's what interests me.

I don't expect it to run Prime95 stable at 1140MHz but I know now that those Clock Skews can get me to the higher clocks. Now it's waiting for the G.Skills to arrive from RMA.

That BIOS on your DFI board looks very good. You've got tons of settings to play with. Let's see now how far you can push that board.

[neo_rtr]

Testing a theory

If the following setup 475x7 = 3325 mhz , one manages to get it prime stable
and all the voltage etc is set, then by going 475x8 = 3800mhz one will have to find only the CPU and CPU PLL
does that make sence?

[neo_rtr]

Try Clear CMOS again and while doing that disconnect the power and push the reset button while touching your case.
If that doesn't work. Do the same thing again. Power your system back on (don't load any settings)and try to flash it again with BIOS 0802. After flashing the BIOS again Clear CMOS.

I hope this might help.

I didnt flash it again though but ii have managed to get it to stay foot.

iam back on (almost maximus bios settings) track and running prime but is not working so well.

i have taken pics with the bios settings and will upload later on
thanks for the post.

In your opinion in order to get higher clock should i go 10x380 or 4x425

EDIT

Hmm I dont know. By the way when prime fails straight away that is CPU volt related?

[phelan1777]

Is anyone that has a Rampage Formula running 4gb Geil RAM?
2X2gb PC2 8500
GE24GB1066C5DC


If so can you share your bios settings for this ram?

[Alien Grey]

In your opinion in order to get higher clock should i go 10x380 or 4x425

I think it should have been 9 X 425MHz

If around 3.8GHz is the highest you can go with your CPU I would say FSB 425MHz.

When your memory can reach 1140MHz go for 8 X 475MHz, 333 MHz strap and tRD 7.