UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[glenn37216]

what are your full load temps (ie, prime95)?

I'll re-do it and post some screenies. Cant remember ATM . I think its around 72c..
Be back in a wile with some results. This is with HT off of course.

[Zurv]

boo.. your OC makes my 965 EE seem like a stunning waste of money :P
i need 1.6vcore to get it stable @ 4.4ghz

though.. the vapochill isn't powerful enough. Because it has to battle to cancel the heat out (vs taking the heat off the chip) the ever increasing temps (over 4.4ghz) are pushed to unstable levels. In about 4 "test" cycles on prime it becomes to hot and crashes.
The temps do drop VERY fast when there is a light load.
So i'm pretty sure i can use higher every day OC than a full load OC - as when the hell am i going to be break out 4 (or 8) threads running for a few min non-stop. *shrug*

still pisses me off i should have picked up a 940

[glenn37216]

That 965 of yours still should give you a decent overclock with a little lower voltage than what your running. Maybe its a voltage setting somewhere that your overlooking....
Your cpu is still a beast to me because of the unlocked Multi. If you look closely here in this thread you can see some have it stable @ 4.3-4.5 . and are having great results in sli and crossfire.
Uhmm your using a Vapor Chill system >? Freaking Sweet. Do you have H.T. enabled when your pc crashes ? At 4.3 -4.4ghz mine crashes with HT on. Still tweaking though and hoping on better inprovements in bios updates . BTW what bios are you running ? That may be the culprit of your overclocking woes. I'm on the version 1001 bios and it seems to be helping me with stability issues.

[scaramonga]

boo.. your OC makes my 965 EE seem like a stunning waste of money :P
i need 1.6vcore to get it stable @ 4.4ghz

It is lol!

But reading through these forums would have told you that

[dejanh]

Anything but a 920 is unfortunately a stunning waste of money...just the XE chip is a stunning waste of money^2.

And I own a 940, so I'm not biased. Just telling it like it is...

On and on a different note, after a while now my cold boot problem is back. I'm rather pissed about it. I have no idea why it is back, nothing changed on my system at all, but it is definitely back.

Three days in a row now the system does not power on after I shut it down at night. Instead it starts all the fans, displays DET DRAM and then it hangs. To get it to boot I have to hold the power button down, wait until it shuts down, then press it again, reload my BIOS settings, and voila, I am rock solid stable again.

The system is memtest, memtest hci, Arena, Prime, and LinX (Linpack) stable...

At first I thought it had to do with 1001 BIOS, but now I noticed that even downgrading the BIOS does nothing to alleviate the problem. I have not experienced a single cold boot since I stopped using X.M.P. profiles about 1.5 months ago...that is until now.

Totally weird.

[glenn37216]

I hope you can get your boot issues worked out Dejah . Keep tweaking and you'll find your 940's sweetspot .
I've personally seen the 965 topple both the 920 and the 940 clocked at the same ghz . All on the same board (Evga x 58) . SOMETIMES ITS LUCK OF THE DRAW on each cpu. I've also seen the 940 with its 22 multi at some great clocks. 4.4 , 4.5ghz...At my local lan cafe one guy has his 940 on AIR at 4.4ghz with triple Sli and HT ENABLED. So it is possible to get some great clocks out of all 3 cpu's.. Most of the time a bad overclock is user error or bad components .
I have clocked both the 920 and the 940 on the same board. I may have had a off batch cpu but I couldnt get the 920 stable past 3.8ghz . Pulled out the 920 and popped in the 940 , kept the same voltages and BAM . CLOCKED IT TO 4.115 GHZ with ht and 4.3 without . Vantage and prime95 stable.(its the setup I'm on now).
I've built 4 Corei7 systems so far 2 with the 920 ...2 with the 940. I'm probably going to get scorned here for saying this but both 940's clocked higher and was more stable with 3-12gigs of ram than either of the 920's . Luck I guess . Thats was enough for me to see to get my own 940. Glad I did.. AND damn glad I chose the Asus over the EVGA.
HOPEFULLY a future bios will fix the unstablility with HIGH OVERCLOCKS wile using HT. I could run this all day but why treat my cpu like LAST YEARS Model?


59C Max temp after Vantage run .

[dejanh]

I've personally seen the 965 topple both the 920 and the 940 clocked at the same ghz . All on the same board (Evga x 58) . SOMETIMES ITS LUCK OF THE DRAW on each cpu. I've also seen the 940 with its 22 multi at some great clocks. 4.4 , 4.5ghz...At my local lan cafe one guy has his 940 on AIR at 4.4ghz with triple Sli and HT ENABLED. So it is possible to get some great clocks out of all 3 cpu's.. Most of the time a bad overclock is USER ERROR.
I have clocked both the 920 and the 940 on the same board. I may have had a off batch cpu but I couldnt get the 920 stable past 3.8ghz . Pulled out the 920 and popped in the 940 , kept the same voltages and BAM . CLOCKED IT TO 4.115 GHZ with ht and 4.3 without . Vantage and prime95 stable.(its the setup I'm on now).


HOPEFULLY a future bios will fix the unstablility with HIGH OVERCLOCKS wile using HT. I could run this all day but why treat my cpu like LAST YEARS Model?


59C Max temp after Vantage run .

Topple in what way? Architecturally, these processors are IDENTICAL to the last detail. It is impossible that a 965 runs the same clocks better than a 940 or for that matter a 920. If clocked higher, that's a different story. Also, a lot of users do not realize that not every board will let them run Turbo permanently on like Gigabyte does so during a benchmark a CPU may downclock but you will never know. On some boards you need to disable TDP limit, on others (like P6T/R2E) you are plain out of luck for now.

Besides, looks like all of us will get a double whammy soon with the arrival of the D0 stepping. Every current i7 looks like it is being phased out and replaced by supposedly better overclocking parts. The 940 and 965 seem to be going EOL and are to be replaced by 950 and 975. Personally I think this is a bunch of bull, but whatever. Especially bad for 940 and 965 owners though as we paid so much more for supposedly better parts and basically got relabeled 920s.

Anyway, this is a R2E thread so we should not be discussing i7 processors here.

[scaramonga]

Personally I think this is a bunch of bull, but whatever. Especially bad for 940 and 965 owners though as we paid so much more for supposedly better parts and basically got relabeled 920s.

I would say 100% right there.

Although, don't give up heart dejanh, this board has plenty of weird stuff going on, I have not had cold boot as issue yet, but I have had lots of silly stuff going on, which just doesn't happen usually, stick with it buddy, I feel better times coming

Were all here for each other buddy

[PalmeAsus]

Anything but a 920 is unfortunately a stunning waste of money...just the XE chip is a stunning waste of money^2.

And I own a 940, so I'm not biased. Just telling it like it is...

On and on a different note, after a while now my cold boot problem is back. I'm rather pissed about it. I have no idea why it is back, nothing changed on my system at all, but it is definitely back.

Three days in a row now the system does not power on after I shut it down at night. Instead it starts all the fans, displays DET DRAM and then it hangs. To get it to boot I have to hold the power button down, wait until it shuts down, then press it again, reload my BIOS settings, and voila, I am rock solid stable again.

The system is memtest, memtest hci, Arena, Prime, and LinX (Linpack) stable...

At first I thought it had to do with 1001 BIOS, but now I noticed that even downgrading the BIOS does nothing to alleviate the problem. I have not experienced a single cold boot since I stopped using X.M.P. profiles about 1.5 months ago...that is until now.

Totally weird.

same problem here but it only occurs after total power off.

[BustaH]

I havent had any cold boot issues, but do have this frustrating wall at 4.2ghz, same outcome with both 920 and 940 chips. I've tried my own settings and also tried settings that others have posted here. with the same result.
The 940 I have behaves identically to the 920 at least on this board right down to the multis it will run on, the extras for the 940 are like tantalising teasers that are there but cant be used?

As far as 940 and 965 being phased out, that in itself speaks volumes. though having said that I dont think they are bad chips per se, just not on this board atm.
Personally, when the bios comes that is intended to fix this tdp issue arrives If it works great if not then I will have to think about getting a different board.

I totally understand where dejaneh is coming from, for a board with such a price tag these issues should be addressed much faster than they have been regardless of the 920/940/965 debate.

I have socket 478 boards here that are more consistant, less complex yes but they will still take a good hammering and still boot everytime.

[waixxx]

Waixx thnx for sharing, which version bios is that 1001? nice work btw.

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[DR3]

boo.. your OC makes my 965 EE seem like a stunning waste of money :P
i need 1.6vcore to get it stable @ 4.4ghz

though.. the vapochill isn't powerful enough. Because it has to battle to cancel the heat out (vs taking the heat off the chip) the ever increasing temps (over 4.4ghz) are pushed to unstable levels. In about 4 "test" cycles on prime it becomes to hot and crashes.
The temps do drop VERY fast when there is a light load.
So i'm pretty sure i can use higher every day OC than a full load OC - as when the hell am i going to be break out 4 (or 8) threads running for a few min non-stop. *shrug*

still pisses me off i should have picked up a 940

I also have a Vapochill and found that it was having a tough time. Then I had a closer look at the shell I was using and found that it was hitting the cpu mounting bracket and causing the cold plate to not make good contact with the cpu.
Did some minor mods to the mounting shell and now the vapochill keeps the temps down.

Hope that helps.

[dejanh]

I would say 100% right there.

Although, don't give up heart dejanh, this board has plenty of weird stuff going on, I have not had cold boot as issue yet, but I have had lots of silly stuff going on, which just doesn't happen usually, stick with it buddy, I feel better times coming

Were all here for each other buddy

Yeah, I know. Trust me after how much I paid for all of these components I am definitely not planning on changing them. I've had this board and chip probably longer than most people posting in this thread, so I do get frustrated sometimes, especially when Intel does something like what they seem to be planning on doing with the 940 and 965.

same problem here but it only occurs after total power off.

Yup, my cold boot is only after a total power off. Had one just this morning infact. Funny thing is, it literally does have to be a "cold" boot. If I power down now, and then I try to start the system again, it will boot just fine.

I havent had any cold boot issues, but do have this frustrating wall at 4.2ghz, same outcome with both 920 and 940 chips. I've tried my own settings and also tried settings that others have posted here. with the same result.
The 940 I have behaves identically to the 920 at least on this board right down to the multis it will run on, the extras for the 940 are like tantalising teasers that are there but cant be used?

As far as 940 and 965 being phased out, that in itself speaks volumes. though having said that I dont think they are bad chips per se, just not on this board atm.
Personally, when the bios comes that is intended to fix this tdp issue arrives If it works great if not then I will have to think about getting a different board.

I totally understand where dejaneh is coming from, for a board with such a price tag these issues should be addressed much faster than they have been regardless of the 920/940/965 debate.

I have socket 478 boards here that are more consistant, less complex yes but they will still take a good hammering and still boot everytime.

Indeed. We should have had resolutions to many of these annoying problems that volumes and volumes of users have been experiencing a long time ago. And in terms of the planned phase-out of chips...I think the 940 and the 965 are basically not selling at all, so Intel wants to start doing some actual binnning to make a distinct difference between the parts, which sucks big time. Though, if the 940 goes EOL then an RMA must give you a 950

Main thing is though that I want to see the new bios for this board...c'mon Asus!

[BustaH]

Though, if the 940 goes EOL then an RMA must give you a 950

Main thing is though that I want to see the new bios for this board...c'mon Asus!

Nice deduction Sherlock!

and yes same as that, its long overdue.

Oh and I think Waixxx has a faulty board [just a joke Waixxx] Im happy for you, grrrrrr.

[dejanh]

Nice deduction Sherlock!

and yes same as that, its long overdue.

Oh and I think Waixxx has a faulty board [just a joke Waixxx] Im happy for you, grrrrrr.

hahaha

And yes, I think Waixxx has a faulty board too...it's working properly.

[PalmeAsus]

why so impressed ? i can s-pi 4.5 ghz np with mine and i run 4.1 ghz qpi 24/7 :O It's the cpus that set the limits atm not the boards :O

[dejanh]

why so impressed ? i can s-pi 4.5 ghz np with mine and i run 4.1 ghz qpi 24/7 :O It's the cpus that set the limits atm not the boards :O

Yes, we know, just kidding around.

[BustaH]

I managed this today, nothing too impressive HT is off, but still faster than my e8600 at 5.5ghz. [xp] this test was in vista too!



Probably didnt need so much vcore, I just wanted to complete the test without too much messing about.

[Twist360]

nope
from 6 is wrong
press tab
u will see the option for ez flash so press the function key for it
in the program tab to the drive ure usb is in
and then tab into the file list for the rom file.. take note it will be a shorten name
select
wait for it to check version and intergrity
say yes
and wait for it to be done
then reboot
wait
for some reason u need to wait for a bit but it will start back
havent tried on all 6 dimm but for rE it wont boot back.

Thanks man

[funk32]

so u fired up my R2E for the first time today... NOTHIN it starts then shuts down the starts and stays on... anything i can do or am i going to have to RMA it?

[posershadow]

so u fired up my R2E for the first time today... NOTHIN it starts then shuts down the starts and stays on... anything i can do or am i going to have to RMA it?

Try clearing the cmos first I guess.

[funk32]

Try clearing the cmos first I guess.

ya i tried that thanks. i have tried everything i know. so i think i will RMA it cause i only have a few days left for a direct replacement from NCIX

[cstkl1]

did u plug ure rams to the correct channel
x58 is other way around
A2 is the nearest to the cpu
hence CPU,A1,A2,B2,B1,C2,C1
put it all in 1's

[cstkl1]

[cstkl1]

to use it disable tm and disable this function