UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[sunny7day]

Have you tried using lower multiplier (16-18) yet?

sure, the lowest multi.
I can get to 221 without adding any voltage. But no matter what i do 222 just won't post. It seems many board out there also have this limit.

[jcniest5]

That's probably just the limit of the current X58 chipset. Revision B3 might fix that.

[ekerazha]

That's probably just the limit of the current X58 chipset. Revision B3 might fix that.

Is a Rampage II Extreme with X58 rev. B3 available?

[sunny7day]

Is a Rampage II Extreme with X58 rev. B3 available?

Not until May

[ekerazha]

Not until May

Thank you for your reply.

Do you know if there will be a Rampage II Extreme "v2" model or it will be recognizeable only from serial number?

[jcniest5]

Thank you for your reply.

Do you know if there will be a Rampage II Extreme "v2" model or it will be recognizeable only from serial number?

Either a V2, Rev. 3.01G or 2.02G something. Currently it is Rev. 2.01G. You will definitely notice the difference in revision numbering.

[Brama]

Hello, just mounted the R2E with latest BIOS (1306) and I noted that with my Xeon W3250 D0 cpu I can set the memory multipliers only up to 1:4 and I can choose only two values from BIOS.

i.e. if I set BCLK to 200 MHz, I can choose only 1333 and 1600 MHz as memory frequencies.


Anyone with R2E and a Xeon can confirm this behavior?

This LINK seems to confirm it


I don't have in my BIOS the two controls that are enlighten in yellow:

[dejanh]

Hello, just mounted the R2E with latest BIOS (1306) and I noted that with my Xeon W3250 D0 cpu I can set the memory multipliers only up to 1:4 and I can choose only two values from BIOS.

i.e. if I set BCLK to 200 MHz, I can choose only 1333 and 1600 MHz as memory frequencies.


Anyone with R2E and a Xeon can confirm this behavior?

This LINK seems to confirm it


I don't have in my BIOS the two controls that are enlighten in yellow:

I can confirm this for you. I have already looked into it a few days ago. Xeon W3520 is fully locked chip. DRAM, Uncore, and QPI are all locked. You only have two options for DRAM, 6x and 8x. You know how they say, if it seems to good to be true (like this chip) it probably is...I knew there had to be a catch with it.

[DR3]

Just got around to benchmarking my latest rig and was very supprised at the poor results.
Even using the most basic bench of wPrime v1.55, 32M - 8.5+ sec and 1024 is 269.6+ seconds.
This seems very poor to me and when compared to the same CPU and memory of other systems on HWbot.com they are definatly poor.

I have tried almost everything I can think of to no avail.
Any help is truely appreiciated.

System config
MB - Asus Rampage 2 Extreme V2
BIOS - 1306
CPU - i920
RAM - OCZ Blade Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000)
CPU Cooler - VapoChill Lightspeed (Phase Cooler -45C +)
Liquid Cooling - Koolance Exos 2.5 (1000w)
VGA - Sapphire HD4870x2 watercooled
PSU - Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w
HDD - Intel X25-M SSD
----------------------------------------------
AI overclock - manual
OC from CPU level up - auto
OC from Memory level up - auto
CPU Ratio setting - 21
CPU Turbo Power Limit - disable

CPU configuration 
CPU Ratio Setting - 21
C1E Support - disable
Hardware prefetcher - enable
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - enable 
Intel Virtualization tech - disabled
CPU TM Function - disable
Execute Disabled bit - disabled
Intel HT Technology - disable
Active Processor Cores - all
A20M - disabled
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled

BCLK frequency - 200
PCIE frequency - 100
DRAM frequency - DDR3 1603MHz
UCLK frequency - 3208MHz
QPI frequency - auto

Dram timing control 
1st iformation - Insert Timings Here in 

6-6-6-14-A(5)-A(74)-A(10)-A(7)-A(16)-A(0)
2nd information - Insert Timings Here in 1N-A(55)-A(58)-A(61)
3rd information - Insert Timings Here in 

A(8)-A(8)-A(16)-A(7)-A(7)-A(7)-A(7)-A(6)-A(4)-A(7)-A(7)-A(4)

EPU II phase control - full phase
Load-line calibration - enable
CPU differential amplitude - auto
Extreme OV - disabled


Cpu voltage - 1.40000
CPU PLL voltage - auto
QPI-Dram voltage - auto

IOH voltage - auto
IOH PCIE voltage - auto
ICH voltage- auto
ICH PCIE voltage - auto

DRAM Bus voltage - 1.65681
DRAM REF voltage - auto

Debug mode - string
Keyboard TeakIt comtrol - disabled

CPU spread spectrum - disabled 
PCIE spectrum - disabled
CPU clock skew - auto
IOH clock skew - auto

[Le Titi]

The Bios 1306 well be OK at 100% for me.

OC i920 @ 4300 1.49V Rock stable OCCT 65° WC.

[jcniest5]

"MB - Asus Rampage 2 Extreme V2"

Is that a different mobo than the regular RIIE? Wonder what the V2 is all about...

[2chesapeakes]

Just got around to benchmarking my latest rig and was very supprised at the poor results.
Even using the most basic bench of wPrime v1.55, 32M - 8.5+ sec and 1024 is 269.6+ seconds.
This seems very poor to me and when compared to the same CPU and memory of other systems on HWbot.com they are definatly poor.

I have tried almost everything I can think of to no avail.
Any help is truely appreiciated.

System config
MB - Asus Rampage 2 Extreme V2
BIOS - 1306
CPU - i920
RAM - OCZ Blade Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000)
CPU Cooler - VapoChill Lightspeed (Phase Cooler -45C +)
Liquid Cooling - Koolance Exos 2.5 (1000w)
VGA - Sapphire HD4870x2 watercooled
PSU - Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w
HDD - Intel X25-M SSD
----------------------------------------------
AI overclock - manual
OC from CPU level up - auto
OC from Memory level up - auto
CPU Ratio setting - 21
CPU Turbo Power Limit - disable

CPU configuration 
CPU Ratio Setting - 21
C1E Support - disable
Hardware prefetcher - enable
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - enable 
Intel Virtualization tech - disabled
CPU TM Function - disable
Execute Disabled bit - disabled
Intel HT Technology - disable
Active Processor Cores - all
A20M - disabled
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled

BCLK frequency - 200
PCIE frequency - 100
DRAM frequency - DDR3 1603MHz
UCLK frequency - 3208MHz
QPI frequency - auto

Dram timing control 
1st iformation - Insert Timings Here in 

6-6-6-14-A(5)-A(74)-A(10)-A(7)-A(16)-A(0)
2nd information - Insert Timings Here in 1N-A(55)-A(58)-A(61)
3rd information - Insert Timings Here in 

A(8)-A(8)-A(16)-A(7)-A(7)-A(7)-A(7)-A(6)-A(4)-A(7)-A(7)-A(4)

EPU II phase control - full phase
Load-line calibration - enable
CPU differential amplitude - auto
Extreme OV - disabled


Cpu voltage - 1.40000
CPU PLL voltage - auto
QPI-Dram voltage - auto

IOH voltage - auto
IOH PCIE voltage - auto
ICH voltage- auto
ICH PCIE voltage - auto

DRAM Bus voltage - 1.65681
DRAM REF voltage - auto

Debug mode - string
Keyboard TeakIt comtrol - disabled

CPU spread spectrum - disabled 
PCIE spectrum - disabled
CPU clock skew - auto
IOH clock skew - auto

From the template it appears you have disable HT. By doing this with wprime you have reduced the number cores to 4 enable HT then set number of threads to 8 and you should score lower times.

[DR3]

From the template it appears you have disable HT. By doing this with wprime you have reduced the number cores to 4 enable HT then set number of threads to 8 and you should score lower times.

In looking at the wPrime scores on HWBot it does seem that all the low scores are with 4 cores and 8 threads so HT must be enabled. Will give it a shot.

Thanks for the keen eye.

[trt740]

I use xp and only need a 3 gb kit but my current one seems to be holding me back.

anyone?

[dejanh]

anyone?

Well, this is an R2E thread but what is your question exactly?

[DR3]

From the template it appears you have disable HT. By doing this with wprime you have reduced the number cores to 4 enable HT then set number of threads to 8 and you should score lower times.

Enabling HT did lower the scores, but they are still not inline with others.
Will have to go back and do some benchmarking to find the problem.
I am positive that SpeedStep and C1E have to disabled.
Now to test the other settings to see how they affect things.

[trt740]

Well, this is an R2E thread but what is your question exactly?

Yes and I asked for suggestions on ram for a RE2 1gb x3

[headala]

Yes and I asked for suggestions on ram for a RE2 1gb x3

I use the OCZ Platinum 1600 kit (1x3). Like it a lot. Took it up to 2100, 2000 stable. You can look at my settings in the competition thread in my sig.

I think it's a good kit for the price, and in my experience 100% compatible.

[trt740]

I use the OCZ Platinum 1600 kit (1x3). Like it a lot. Took it up to 2100, 2000 stable. You can look at my settings in the competition thread in my sig.

I think it's a good kit for the price, and in my experience 100% compatible.

thx!!

[DR3]

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but I found out some interesting quarks about the REII today.
If you set the DRAM Bus Voltage to Auto it will push the voltage way past 1.65v in a heartbeat.
Here is some readings from Everest:
Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.52 V
CPU PLL 1.82 V
North Bridge Core 1.27 V
North Bridge +1.5 V 1.51 V
South Bridge Core 1.32 V
South Bridge +1.5 V 1.51 V
QPI 1.50 V
DIMM 1.79 V

This is with the Core i7 920 @ 4.6 Gig (B-220 M-21)

Still can not get the WPrime 32 times below 6 sec, even pushing the system this hard.
I have no idea what could be causing this problem.

[DR3]

After beating my brains out trying to squeze better numbers out of my system. I decided to try a different HD that I had setup with Windows XP 64, Vista Ultimate 64 and Windows 7 (64 bit).
Without even pushing the system very hard Windows 7 and Vista get wPrime 32 results in the very low 6 seconds @ 4.2G.

ARGH bitten again by MS.

[crashmax]

Hello, just mounted the R2E with latest BIOS (1306) and I noted that with my Xeon W3250 D0 cpu I can set the memory multipliers only up to 1:4 and I can choose only two values from BIOS.

i.e. if I set BCLK to 200 MHz, I can choose only 1333 and 1600 MHz as memory frequencies.


Anyone with R2E and a Xeon can confirm this behavior?

This LINK seems to confirm it


I don't have in my BIOS the two controls that are enlighten in yellow:

It is "only" an ASUS BIOS issue! Have tested this with my GA EX58-Extreme and my W3540. On the GA I can access every Setting like with my Core i7 940. Have wrote to ASUS, hope there will out an new BIOS soon!

[Jameison]

Hello All,

I have just completed a new build: i7-965, 6gb Corsair Dominator GT 1866, BFG GTX 295 in Quad, Vista 64, Thermaltake Toughpower 1200 and the Asus R2E r2 board. One immediate problem I am having is that only 4gb are being reported in bios (1306, 1104, 1205) and windows. However, CPU-Z reports 6gb. Memory is fine, checked it six ways from Sunday. I have seen this issue on other forumns and have tried some of the suggestions to no avail. Is this an RMA issue, bios issue, driver issue, I do not know. Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Sorry if I'm jumping in on this thread or out o fline with the question...

[carpo93]

"MB - Asus Rampage 2 Extreme V2"

Is that a different mobo than the regular RIIE? Wonder what the V2 is all about...

i think it'll be the same mobo, but with a different chipset

[jcniest5]

i think it'll be the same mobo, but with a different chipset

Is V2 out already? Seems like two people stated that already...I thought it won't be out until mid May?