UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[If6was9]

The last slot will only do x8 speed at most. You'll probably won't notice it in games, but it's indeed slower than x16 speed. If it bothers you too much you can always run slot 1&2 @ x16 and use the last slot for a PCIe sound card.

I have a Gainward Rampage 700 2048 MB GS GLH that takes two slots, can I put this sound card ?



is a Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater HD
specs here

[col_dilian]

Pc finally arrived gona build in a few days and begin ocing. Anyone have any ideas on what the best batches of 920s are. I got a 3841A448 any ideas what to excpect.

[jasonelmore]

Pc finally arrived gona build in a few days and begin ocing. Anyone have any ideas on what the best batches of 920s are. I got a 3841A448 any ideas what to excpect.

Use the search function at the top of the page. There's a thread called "i7 overclocking by batch number" somewhere around here that has the information you need

[jasonelmore]

So it turns out that my RMA sticks that came from Corsair are all faulty. I'm starting to see T_Flight's point on Corsair sucking badly. How can they send me new DRAM only to have each stick fail Memtest86+ 2.11?

They all fail in test 5, after a few passes. Not in the first pass, but after about 5 passes they start to produce few but steady errors in tests 5 and 6. Going back to my faulty kit (-1 stick ATM) I do not have any problems.

Furthermore, the new kit clocks worth $hit. It won't run X.M.P. profile at all, even at all defaults, and it cannot clock past 1650MHz.

I'm failing to see what this sticks are "dominating".

My original kit asside from the one faulty stick can clock up to 1900MHz stable with 9-9-9-24-1T timings (7-7-7-16-1T at 1600MHz). The replacement cannot even run 1600MHz (rated) stable.

Anyway, I'm back running dual channel now using my remaining two good sticks from the original kit. Here is an Everest screen with the current settings, 4GB 1600MHz 7-7-7-16-1T, 4GHz Uncore using 1.45V QPI/DRAM.

Did the new rma sticks atleast run in tri channel? If they still do not then i think you may have a problem with your cpu

[cx-ray]

I have a Gainward Rampage 700 2048 MB GS GLH that takes two slots, can I put this sound card ?

is a Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater HD

If you check the pic of my test bench you'll see there's enough space to fit 3x dual slot GPU cards in there. Your GPU + 1 PCIe sound card should be no problem.

[BustaH]

So it turns out that my RMA sticks that came from Corsair are all faulty. I'm starting to see T_Flight's point on Corsair sucking badly. How can they send me new DRAM only to have each stick fail Memtest86+ 2.11?

They all fail in test 5, after a few passes. Not in the first pass, but after about 5 passes they start to produce few but steady errors in tests 5 and 6. Going back to my faulty kit (-1 stick ATM) I do not have any problems.

Furthermore, the new kit clocks worth $hit. It won't run X.M.P. profile at all, even at all defaults, and it cannot clock past 1650MHz.

I'm failing to see what this sticks are "dominating".

My original kit asside from the one faulty stick can clock up to 1900MHz stable with 9-9-9-24-1T timings (7-7-7-16-1T at 1600MHz). The replacement cannot even run 1600MHz (rated) stable.

Anyway, I'm back running dual channel now using my remaining two good sticks from the original kit. Here is an Everest screen with the current settings, 4GB 1600MHz 7-7-7-16-1T, 4GHz Uncore using 1.45V QPI/DRAM.

Im running 3x kingston hyperx Dual channel sticks, they run as trichannel and own my dominator 1800mhz sticks. also I bought a set of crucial tri channel value ram which will run tight 7-8-7-18 @ 1600mhz, they cost only £33 gbp for 3gb of tri channel...go figure? I havent even pushed the voltages on these yet. 1.72vram.

These will go even tighter.

[dejanh]

Did the new rma sticks atleast run in tri channel? If they still do not then i think you may have a problem with your cpu

No, they ran tri-channel. The DRAM was just faulty. Even a single stick would error out in Memtest86+ 2.11.

Im running 3x kingston hyperx Dual channel sticks, they run as trichannel and own my dominator 1800mhz sticks. also I bought a set of crucial tri channel value ram which will run tight 7-8-7-18 @ 1600mhz, they cost only £33 gbp for 3gb of tri channel...go figure? I havent even pushed the voltages on these yet. 1.72vram.

These will go even tighter.

Yeah, I'm not too impressed by Corsair sticks. They cost me an arm and a leg when I bought them ($400 CAD after taxes) for the tri-channel kit and to know that dirt cheap memory does almost as well, and that these have been failing like this...well, it makes me very weary of buying Corsair again. I always ran Mushkin before and I never had problems with them.

[cstkl1]

dejanh
thats the same symptoms i had with my r2e running my gt's at 7-8-7-20
but worked fine at 8-8-8-24

it wasnt the ram
it was the board.
same memtest86 failure..

suspect the board dram voltages are having a lot of flux

[dejanh]

dejanh
thats the same symptoms i had with my r2e running my gt's at 7-8-7-20
but worked fine at 8-8-8-24

it wasnt the ram
it was the board.
same memtest86 failure..

suspect the board dram voltages are having a lot of flux

I see. The only problem with this is that my original Dominators run fine then with the exception of the one stick which is physically dead (i.e., does not work at all any more). Also, increasing the timing to 8-8-8-24-2T even 9-9-9-24-2T did nothing to remove Memtest errors. I really think this time it was the DRAM and not the board. But we will see soon. The new shipment should be on the way today and I told them to test the sticks before sending them.

Edit: Not really related to above but I upped the Uncore speed to 4.2GHz. Check out the L3 cache speed...nice improvement over the previous speed

[Z3R0-CooL]

I see. The only problem with this is that my original Dominators run fine then with the exception of the one stick which is physically dead (i.e., does not work at all any more). Also, increasing the timing to 8-8-8-24-2T even 9-9-9-24-2T did nothing to remove Memtest errors. I really think this time it was the DRAM and not the board. But we will see soon. The new shipment should be on the way today and I told them to test the sticks before sending them.

Edit: Not really related to above but I upped the Uncore speed to 4.2GHz. Check out the L3 cache speed...nice improvement over the previous speed

what are ur volts like? IOH, ICH, QPI, CPU PLL and Vcore for such high uncore?

[dejanh]

what are ur volts like? IOH, ICH, QPI, CPU PLL and Vcore for such high uncore?

Please see the settings below. The only thing that is different and that is showing up incorrectly in TurboV is the QPI which is actually running at 1.56V. QPI/DRAM is automatically set for me by the board even though it shows that the manual settings is 1.35V. This is a strange bug (but good) when using the X.M.P. profile as the basis for an overclock.

My Uncore is running at the same speed as my CPU now, 4.2GHz. I've spent many hours testing the memory in both the triple channel configuration (while I still had my triple channel going nicely) and dual channel with no problems so far. If I down the Uncore to 4GHz the QPI drops to 1.44V roughly.

[BustaH]

I see. The only problem with this is that my original Dominators run fine then with the exception of the one stick which is physically dead (i.e., does not work at all any more). Also, increasing the timing to 8-8-8-24-2T even 9-9-9-24-2T did nothing to remove Memtest errors. I really think this time it was the DRAM and not the board. But we will see soon. The new shipment should be on the way today and I told them to test the sticks before sending them.

Edit: Not really related to above but I upped the Uncore speed to 4.2GHz. Check out the L3 cache speed...nice improvement over the previous speed

Any chance you could put up a cpuz screen with this. would be very helpful to me, also with cpuz/mem screen thnx.

[dejanh]

Any chance you could put up a cpuz screen with this. would be very helpful to me, also with cpuz/mem screen thnx.

Sorry, I may sound like a tool here but of what do you want a screenshot? CPU-Z and Everest Memory Benchmark with 4.2GHz Uncore, or comparison between 4GHz and 4.2GHz, or just two CPU-Z screens one showing the CPU tab and the other the memory tab, or...?

Well, you get my point

[Z3R0-CooL]

Sorry, I may sound like a tool here but of what do you want a screenshot? CPU-Z and Everest Memory Benchmark with 4.2GHz Uncore, or comparison between 4GHz and 4.2GHz, or just two CPU-Z screens one showing the CPU tab and the other the memory tab, or...?

Well, you get my point

do you run that QPI voltage and uncore 24-7 though or just benches?

[dejanh]

do you run that QPI voltage and uncore 24-7 though or just benches?

Well, I am thinking to leave this for 24/7. Normally I would use it and did use it for benching only as I know it is above Intel's recommended maximum but once I ended up going back down to dual channel DRAM I did notice an improvement when compiling and a few other places so I kind of like it. If it still has the same real life improvement when I put back my third stick then this will stay for 24/7.

Here is a CPU-Z screen with core and memory by the way...still waiting for that darned 3rd stick to come in now. These settings were stable with triple channel, just the memory was defective.

[dMITIj]

Hello you guys.

what BIOS is the best for this asus r2e for now? ill get mine later on this weekend and would like to downloade what is need for it :-)

best regards.

[Twist360]

Hello you guys.

what BIOS is the best for this asus r2e for now? ill get mine later on this weekend and would like to downloade what is need for it :-)

best regards.

bios 1104
see first page

[dMITIj]

bios 1104
see first page

Thx alot m8
i didt see the first page but i ditent know if one of them were better than the other

[Twist360]

Hi guys !

Could you please just have a look on my screen ?

I have tested lot of parameters and those seems stable and nice because my PC seems fluent for 24/7 and gaming...

But i wonder if, as u can see, the QPI link is higher than the core frequency... is a really good or bad parameter ???

Any advice and suggestion is welcome to improve my 24/7 configuration plz.

Thanks a lot !

[BustaH]

Well, I am thinking to leave this for 24/7. Normally I would use it and did use it for benching only as I know it is above Intel's recommended maximum but once I ended up going back down to dual channel DRAM I did notice an improvement when compiling and a few other places so I kind of like it. If it still has the same real life improvement when I put back my third stick then this will stay for 24/7.

Here is a CPU-Z screen with core and memory by the way...still waiting for that darned 3rd stick to come in now. These settings were stable with triple channel, just the memory was defective.

Thats it thank you. btw thats a very nice oveclock with those volts

incidently, a friend sent me 3x 940's to try [hoooray!] so I can compare with the one I have they are all oem, first one was a dog, its like a furnace, second one is better than my retail, it does better on water than my retail does on dice! havent tried the third one yet, sad thing is I have to send them all back......[boooooo]

But He did say I can keep the best one in exchange for my pig of a retail chip...[hooray!]

[crazyea]

I fail to see the logic. It's not really a sad thing sending them "all" back if you get to keep the best one in exchange for yours.

[dexster]

has asus attended to the memory clocking issues with the r2e ??
apparently the r2e could not achieve the same memory clocks as other asus motherboards and it required a new revision not just a bios update??

edit:, also how can one differentiate between the old and new r2e mobo's ?

...it has been a while ago since i read up about the r2e but its still the mobo im after

[BustaH]

I fail to see the logic. It's not really a sad thing sending them "all" back if you get to keep the best one in exchange for yours.

I wasnt trying to be logical, it was an attempt at humour to lighten the thread up a bit.

The point is really that the chips ive tried including the 920 have wildly varying tolerances. of course that knowledge is far from new but it does answer a few questions now ive had the opportunity to see for myself.

Look at djanehs last screen, to run at those voltages stable with ht on tells me He has a very nice chip, some of these chips are very leaky some are not so bad. im trying to work out if its the imc in the chip that is the most likely contributing factor dependant on overclockability, my 'walls' have looked like memory walls but the memory is ok which tells me the imc is the hurdle. or as Cstkl pointed out very early on the qpi card set up Asus went for on this board or a combination of the two.

I probably didnt make a lot of sense there but im sure you get the idea of what I mean. This thread is about the R2E its relationship with the cpu and memory is crucial of course. I'm now thinking that this board is so finely tuned, its not allowing for intolerances like some of the other boards are, hence were seeing higher oc's on other boards. I dont believe now that this board is incapable I think it just needs a more fluent combination of parts for it to shine.
for example this board shines with the 965 chip [not all] but some, having those extra multis allows more tolerance.

[crazyea]

LOL, I was just kidding as well. Your are lucky though, getting a mulligan like that. But it's true what you say, I think this board, made for overclockers, isn't so special. I can run my chip at 3.8 1.27v w/HT, but to get any higher requires a hell of a lot more voltages (think mid 1.4's). I sure hope they can get that sorted. Mind you I haven't tried the chip on another board so my opinion is slightly slanted.

[BringerOdeath]

Help guys! I accidently pulled out the little wires on the lcd poster! Now I don't know hish wire goes in which slot in the little socket!! I thought I put it in right, but now it lights up all the time even when the pc is of and says pc init on the screen all the time..... Can someone post a pic of theirs??