UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[Brama]

It doesn't and probably won't ever come with b3 revision IOH. The word on the street is they have EOLed the RIIE and are *either going to focus on the P55/P57 with the ROG line or introduce a new X58 ROG board with the fall line-up refresh (along with P6X Premium).

*pure speculation on my part from here forward

I think you are right.
If it is true that new i5 processors will have same performances than i7, clock by clock, counting that the MB for i5 will be at least 100 US$ less in price, I feel that in fall our MB will be jurassic.

[Malik]

So is it worth to buy asus rampage 2 extreme right now ?

I want make upgrade of my old rig to new rig but i don't know which mobo. r2e is my favorite

[E.R]

What is this EOLed ?

UPDATE:

ok i found what that word means

You think that is over of r2e ?

Someone that claimed to be an ASUS Technical Marketing Specialist rep. on [H] say the EOL rumor is false, but i dont know what to belive.

However i would not buy this board without test it to make sure the coldbootissue are solved or present with a perticular setup. That is a anoying feature(among other things) my board has with my specific setup with any BIOS or PSU and make me turn to another brand and board before that limited edition one is out of stock from my prefered retailer.

If you want a B3 then EVGA X58 LE is said to be a B3 revison but that board has its limitations as the name of it say..

[Malik]

I heard that this problem with coldboot is over. And now everything works fine on asus rampage 2 extreme. About evga ... yes she have b3 chipset but how about OC etc. - for now that is one big "mistery"

[cky2k6]

I think this might help to a lot of people. It's X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro sound card in first black Pci-e 1x slot. I also placed 280GTX card so you can see how it will look like in real.

Took me about 40 seconds with screwdriver help...

might as well use an aftermarket heatsink... if you ever wind up having to rma the board, asus will charge you for the damage to the heatsink, that will probably be more than a new one would've cost you.

[bmilos]

might as well use an aftermarket heatsink... if you ever wind up having to rma the board, asus will charge you for the damage to the heatsink, that will probably be more than a new one would've cost you.

Not true, for me at least. I sent mine back WITHOUT the heatsink as I was using a WC block and they had nothing to say...

[jcniest5]

Guys i have question, how i can check this mobo in shop dose it have stepping b3 of chipset ?

It's impossible to check unless you take off the heatsink of the IOH or have a board working loaded with Windows and you can use CPU-Z to get the info.

[KILLER_K]

I still see no reason what-so-ever to use a screwdriver on the northbridge heatsink. As all you have to do is use the pci-e sound card in the last pci-e slot at the bottom of the board. Because it still will only do 8x so i rather have a working sound card in that slot then a 8x card being choked to 8x.

So you ruined a heatsink for no reason at all....lol

Good Day

[IronAge]

Somebody from a german forum went mad when he got his RIIE back from rma and the third ram slot still has not been fixed.

( http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community...postcount=2122 )

Here is the result:







What you think - Asus will take it for RMA again ?

[GoNz0]

oh dear, he must have money to waste.

[AquaRelliux]

I think this might help to a lot of people. It's X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro sound card in first black Pci-e 1x slot. I also placed 280GTX card so you can see how it will look like in real.

Took me about 40 seconds with screwdriver help...

I just got the same soundcard but my gfx is watercooled and the block dosent cover the pcie slot that is over the card,
can I use the soundcard in that one? then I dont have the bend the fins on the NB heatsink.
I tried installing the orginal soundcard there that comes with the card but that resulted in no sound why?(the drivers dident find the card either),
Is it only the black slot that can handle soundcards or what?

[E.R]

I just got the same soundcard but my gfx is watercooled and the block dosent cover the pcie slot that is over the card,
can I use the soundcard in that one? then I dont have the bend the fins on the NB heatsink.
I tried installing the orginal soundcard there that comes with the card but that resulted in no sound why?(the drivers dident find the card either),
Is it only the black slot that can handle soundcards or what?

I had my Titanium in the lowest PCIe 16x slot when i only had 2 GFX:s so no PCIe soundcard can fit in any PCIe slot. Never even tried the soundcard that comes with the board tho.

[funk32]

I had my Titanium in the lowest PCIe 16x slot when i only had 2 GFX:s so no PCIe soundcard can fit in any PCIe slot. Never even tried the soundcard that comes with the board tho.

the stock sound card will fit and worked for me. i did it just to test the board out before i water cooled it all. now i have the my titanium in that slot and fits great and works great.

[Marvin82]

Somebody from a german forum went mad when he got his RIIE back from rma and the third ram slot still has not been fixed.

( http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community...postcount=2122 )

Here is the result:







What you think - Asus will take it for RMA again ?

no we have ask Asus
This was the 3 Mainboard with the same problem
so
I have the 2 of the boards an test him tonight bevore we make the same wat you see on the picture

[Papagaj]

I still see no reason what-so-ever to use a screwdriver on the northbridge heatsink. As all you have to do is use the pci-e sound card in the last pci-e slot at the bottom of the board. Because it still will only do 8x so i rather have a working sound card in that slot then a 8x card being choked to 8x.

So you ruined a heatsink for no reason at all....lol

Good Day

Well as you can see http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/203...rafia0179u.jpg Titanium card in the last slot could affect my air-flow to VGA cards.... so that's the main reason why i damaged that heatsink.

[KILLER_K]

Well as you can see http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/203...rafia0179u.jpg Titanium card in the last slot could affect my air-flow to VGA cards.... so that's the main reason why i damaged that heatsink.

Yea, totally miseed that part. But if it works and you're happy then that is all that matters.

I need some parts off that torn up r2e board....lol

Good Day

[Marvin82]

Check out my CPU-Z screenshot here: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=582979

Most (if not all) x58 boards have this problem until you bump up PCI-E Frequency to at least 110 or higher. That enables you to go over the 222 bclk, which means it's not the problem with the CPU, but of the board.

No PCIe 100Mhz and i have http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=585845

[trt740]

any new bios release I have missed?

[hifiking]

With PCIe at 115 I did 229 BCLK. QPI at 1.5v

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=586040

[jcniest5]

No PCIe 100Mhz and i have http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=585845

You're probably one of the few who can say that...

[Marvin82]

With PCIe at 115 I did 229 BCLK. QPI at 1.5v

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=586040

But Multi 17

[Marvin82]

You're probably one of the few who can say that...

Maybe

but with 108 I can not Boot further than 225
I must SetFsb test times

[aoch88]

I need help. I can't seem to enable Turbo Mode on my R2E. What are the settings I should set to make it appear in the BIOS? Darn, I'm only at 20x multi all the time

[dopestuff]

I need help. I can't seem to enable Turbo Mode on my R2E. What are the settings I should set to make it appear in the BIOS? Darn, I'm only at 20x multi all the time

just update jour bios to one of the latest and you will be able to select 21 multi

[jcniest5]

Anyone's got the latest R2E with the B3 chipset yet?