UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[PytonOrm]

Crazy man like me tested max Pci-e and get 125mhz booting into windows...

pics setting in bios

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5159/img1011s.jpg

Hardcore mhz on Pci-e trying booting 130mhz but FAILED !! :w00t: black screen and no booting att all there....

pics

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6632/img1014m.jpg

[carpo93]

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

no , v2 isn't out already, i think only for beta tester, but i'm not one
i think mid may it's probably the relase date, but asus can sell it before, because now evga has the classified, that beat the re2

[Leeghoofd]

because now evga has the classified, that beat the re2

At that price it should be something very special and beat the living crap out of any mobo on the market. But honestly most of us are cpu limited (IMC) not board limited...

[Grnfinger]

At that price it should be something very special and beat the living crap out of any mobo on the market. But honestly most of us are cpu limited (IMC) not board limited...

So Lee the classified is the top dog currently?
I'm about to pull the trigger on a board and am torn between the Classified and RIIE

[DR3]

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...

I got the same thing when I was using 6 x 1G for some reason only 4 would register. Now that I am using 3 x 2G all 6G registers.
So now the question are you running 6 x 1G or 3 x 2G?

[StickyRICE]

I got the same thing when I was using 6 x 1G for some reason only 4 would register. Now that I am using 3 x 2G all 6G registers.
So now the question are you running 6 x 1G or 3 x 2G?

I find that for me if I stay below 1.6v on dram I would get all 6g (3x2g). I keep the qpi to .2 or .3 and it doesn't matter, as long as I'm under 1.6v on dram it will run at all 6gs and at the rated timings.

Another question, what are you guys doing for win7 rc release drivers? Don't seem like none of the asus drivers want to work, but in device manager it don't show that I need any drivers since the generic ones works. So just let it be and install ati drivers and call it good or what?

[Smooth]

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...

What I´ve read about this problem so far is that in most cases it helped when the screws of the CPU-Cooler are lighten a little bit.
Most of the people with that problem screwed the cooler to tight and when they lightened the tension the whole amount of RAM was recognised.

Just give it a try

[Jameison]

Thanks Guys,

I am running 3 x 2gb sticks. I just tried loosening the cpu block with barely finger tight setting, and still only 4gb. Something new though, the system will now BSOD when a specific stick is used (in any slot, A1 B1 or C1), me thinks I've a bad stick. It loads fine with just two sticks in A1 and B1, but if I swap one of those with the third stick... BSOD.

Are these matched sets or can Corsair just RMA the one?

Thanks again for the help.

[affiliate13]

Searched thread but cant find anything so i wanted to ask is it worth removing and re-seating the heat pipe assembly with fresh TIM?

Thanks

[GoNz0]

considering the SB has only been 25% in contact with the thermal pad i would say so.

this has been the same on both of the boards i have owned.

make sure its hot before you remove as the pads dont like coming off the chips.

[affiliate13]

Thanks, useful info.
Aye, ill strip the assembly off tomorrow night then.

[Smooth]

Thanks, useful info.
Aye, ill strip the assembly off tomorrow night then.

Please report of the benefit of this effort.
I am thinking of dis- and reassembling the heatpipe the whole time... but still don´t know if the whole effort is worth the gain of temp.

[StickyRICE]

What are your guys temps right now?

[nge769]

Hey guys returned my p6t d v2 and looking at the r2e or evga classified .. you guys happy with r2e , should i wait for version 2 of r2e ? I was considering classified but NB heat got me worried .

[Vega]

Hi,

Does any one else here run Kingstone HyperX memorys on this board? I cant get it to work properly...living with cold boot and bluescreens from time to time! I can run prime and memtest for hours when the system start.
I have now tryed to run with 2 sticks for some days (dualchannel) and that works great for me. No problem at all!!

Thx in advance

[jcniest5]

Hey guys returned my p6t d v2 and looking at the r2e or evga classified .. you guys happy with r2e , should i wait for version 2 of r2e ? I was considering classified but NB heat got me worried .

It's only two weeks away, just wait until V2 of R2E comes out. You will be glad you waited.

[Fire4Wire]

V2 RIIE??
some pics of this new Board?

[nge769]

It's only two weeks away, just wait until V2 of R2E comes out. You will be glad you waited.

Seems like ill have to wait ,also i hope the 975 comes out by then too because i also returned my 965 lol. Its hard waiting here with everything but mobo and cpu , my OCZ 2000 3x2g cl7 Blades are getting lonely

[bmg]

It's only two weeks away, just wait until V2 of R2E comes out. You will be glad you waited.

Where did you hear it was going to be out in 2 weeks?

[jcniest5]

Where did you hear it was going to be out in 2 weeks?

It's written everywhere if you do some search around...search for X58 B3 revision or similar phrase. Well, maybe "two weeks" is a little bit off, but they said the new rev. B3 will be wide available for mass deployment to mobo makers beginning second week of May...so from point on, just depend on how fast they can incorporate these into their production mobos, then we'll start seeing them at time time.

[Le Titi]

I receive yersterday and test now 3X2 Go G.Skill Trident 16000 at 7-7-7 20 1T and 6-7-6 18 1.65V stable occt.

[GoNz0]

Please report of the benefit of this effort.
I am thinking of dis- and reassembling the heatpipe the whole time... but still don´t know if the whole effort is worth the gain of temp.

it will be worth it if the chips not in contact like both of mine. i dont know the after temps as i slapped a koolance block on there

[affiliate13]

Please report of the benefit of this effort.
I am thinking of dis- and reassembling the heatpipe the whole time... but still don´t know if the whole effort is worth the gain of temp.

Ive have only turned my board on to check if it was DOA.
I did not record any temps, i just tested a few things before i mounted it in my case,ill be running two loops and have no i7 air cooler so i didnt test any heavy or overclocked loads.
I did strip the heatpipes off, cleaned with IPA, dressed with OCZ Freeze TIM and Sekisui tape on the mosfets.

Ill report my temps when i get it all up and running, i am waiting on some deliveries so it may be a week or more before they are available.
Im not sure how useful they will be as ive nothing to compare them to though.

[Vega]

How much voltage on QPI/Dram do you need to feed to run 1800MHz+ (3Gb RAM) on this board?

[modUlar]

can some of you at or over 4ghz post your bios settings? I'm at 3.9 with 1.375v vcore, 1.35 QPI, 1.65 dram 106x19. No matter what I do I can't bump it to 4ghz without going to 1.45 vcore, 1.45 QPI and 1.75 dram? can anyone help me out?

I heard not to go over 1.35 on the QPI is this true? what about the 920 what would you guys run for 24/7?

thanks guys