UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[rabor]

rabor and seba84_2005, since you both are at the same speed. Are you both on air or water and what is the temps after running linX all 20 passes at 4.2 with HT on?

I'm on air (True Copper.. edit: lapped) & max temps on LinX are 74C @ approx 23C room temp.

I used to have watercooling btw (2000 to 2008), but it just became too much of a hassle.. & with <55nm technology hardly necessary anymore..

[JohnMike]

Bios 1502 here :

rampageii-asus-extreme-1502.rar



Thanks for the test, will hook up the RE II for the I7 waterblock test. Value 0 is not zero in fact, the bios reads it out (think to hide the real setting for the competition) as zero. In fact it's around 4 setting. Glad you can run it as tight as that, we needed 8-10 for Hyperpi 32m stability with 8 threads on XP64 and Vista 64.

How high do you need to run the QPI volts to get stable ? difference between 4 and 0 ?

Thanks!

I'm moving from my eVGA X58 SLI to the RII Extreme and later i will test B2B Cas Delay with my Gskill Trident PC1600 6GB.

[widdyst]

Hi all. I've just got myself one of these boards second hand with an i7 965 extreme for a real good price.
I am really keen to get clocking but have already run into my first snag.
I want to run 2 hard drives in Raid 0 but cant seem to create a driver disc/usb stick file.
I will read this thread in its entire'ty when I get going but at the moment I am in a rush to get the PC up and running.
The problem I am having is creating the Raid driver onto my usb pen. I access the motherboard utility DVD Choose Make disc tab and select the intel 64 bit file. Now I am then supposed to insert my usb pen drive and away I go. BUT I keep getting the same error message "disc not recognised".
Unfortunately I dont have a floppy drive to try so I am stuck. Can anybody offer any advice?

[Brama]

Bios 1502 here :

rampageii-asus-extreme-1502.rar



Thanks for the test, will hook up the RE II for the I7 waterblock test. Value 0 is not zero in fact, the bios reads it out (think to hide the real setting for the competition) as zero. In fact it's around 4 setting. Glad you can run it as tight as that, we needed 8-10 for Hyperpi 32m stability with 8 threads on XP64 and Vista 64.

How high do you need to run the QPI volts to get stable ? difference between 4 and 0 ?

Actually I use MHz 186x23, 1864 MHz RAM at 7-7-6-18-1T, Vqpi read by Everest 1.396 in idle, 1.369 V under full load.

To be stable with B2B in AUTO (0 displayed by BIOS), I need about 3 steps more Vqpi.


I found very useful in my setup the new Relative VID setting: I was able to reach 200 MHz more on core clock using this setting as the VID is calibrated by O.S. on the load of the cpu and I can set relative high voltage under full load that is automaticalli reduced in idle.
With that max voltage with previous BIOS, I had BSOD or locked O.S., due to cpu overheating during small loads.

[Brama]

Hi all. I've just got myself one of these boards second hand with an i7 965 extreme for a real good price.
I am really keen to get clocking but have already run into my first snag.
I want to run 2 hard drives in Raid 0 but cant seem to create a driver disc/usb stick file.
I will read this thread in its entire'ty when I get going but at the moment I am in a rush to get the PC up and running.
The problem I am having is creating the Raid driver onto my usb pen. I access the motherboard utility DVD Choose Make disc tab and select the intel 64 bit file. Now I am then supposed to insert my usb pen drive and away I go. BUT I keep getting the same error message "disc not recognised".
Unfortunately I dont have a floppy drive to try so I am stuck. Can anybody offer any advice?

Are you trying to install raid into a XP64 system?
With Vista and Win7 you don't need any driver. Just setup the RAID with the Intel utility during POST and boot from installation DVD.

[Scooby]

I finally got my first i7 rig up and going and I must say the Rampage II Extreme for me is the best i7 platform out their. My assembly was was very smooth right up to the time I pressed the start button. More on that later.

These are the specs as of now...

MB: Asus Rampage II Extreme, Bios 1502
CPU: INTEL i7 920 D0 LGA1366
RAM: Corsair TR3X3G1600C9 DDR3 1600mhz (1gb x 6)
HD-1: Western Digital WD3000HLFS VelciRaptor 300GB
HD-2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1000GB
DVD: Pioneer BDC-2202B SATA Blu-ray
GPU: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850x2 2Gb, Quad DVI Output
SOUND CARD: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality
PSU: PC Power and Cooling ULTRA-QUIET, SILENCER 910
Case: Microcool Banchetto 101
Mics: Thermalright TRUE COPPER All Copper CPU Heatsink
Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm x2
Scythe Gentle Typhoon 92mm x2
Lamptron FC-2 - 45 Watts Per Channel 6 Channel Fan Controller
Windows 7 RC 64bit


I actually started with 6gb of Dominator GTs and sure enough they died 4 hour in to the start up. I'd like to thank my buddy psygnosi for the use of his spare Corsair ram. Thanks again bro. Well after the ram was replaced we ended with these results. For some reason the readings on the CPU-Z and Everest memory timings are wrong, in the bios it actually reads 10-9-8-20.




At this point when I get some better memory will I go any further...any suggestions?


Thanks for viewing
Scooby

[psygnosi]

Hey Scooby,

Your phone is saying is no longer in service....

Did you forget to pay the phone company?

Call me at home.

Psygnosi

[scaramonga]

Anyone tried loading in saved BIOS settings in 1406 ------> 1502?

Will it work/do they work?

[theonlybabyface]

Anyone tried loading in saved BIOS settings in 1406 ------> 1502?

Will it work/do they work?

It worked for me....great bios so far though. No issues to report and I really like the relative cpu core voltage option.

[Anuaja]

Guys what have temps on NB/SB chipsets with stock cooling?

I have to compare with my water block.

My NB/SB temp, full load NB 50c, SB 44c. swiftech MCW 30 on NB
room temp 27 C HT ON

[scaramonga]

It worked for me....great bios so far though. No issues to report and I really like the relative cpu core voltage option.

Thank you

My NB/SB temp, full load NB 50c, SB 44c. swiftech MCW 30 on NB
room temp 27 C HT ON

My NB now sits @ 38c (down from 48c) just by wedging a 60cm fan in place on top of my GTX280, never has caused problems, but its nice to have it cooler anyway I'll take pics if you want em?

[JohnMike]

Does anyone have a Xeon 3540 running on this board and S3 Mode works?!

[Brama]

Does anyone have a Xeon 3450 running on this board and S3 Mode works?!

Do you mean 3540?

I had a W3520 and suspension worked perfectly on BIOS 14xx.

[JohnMike]

Do you mean 3540?

I had a W3520 and suspension worked perfectly on BIOS 14xx.

Correct!

Something is wrong with my sytem, can't put S3 Mode to work.



Edit: Found it!... Was Creative drivers with DTS Encoder on ... S3 works great now!

[RoEy]

Hi all,

Really hope someone can help me...

I have this motherboard along with corsair dominator 1600 6gb ram and core i7 920 C0 stepping.

I've managed to get the CPU to 3.4 and 1340 on ram at prime stable. I then tried to get to 3.6 and the ram at 1440 and it's nearly stable but I think I'm having to use quite a lot of volts to do so. I'd love it if someone could help me get to 4ghz.

Current settings at 3.6

CPU Multi @ 20
BCLK @ 180
UCLK @ 3060
QPI @ 6459 (I Think)

VCORE @ 1.33 Prime Load @ 1.349 - 1.369
CPU PLL @ 1.81
VTT @ 1.325 Load @ 1.33
VDIMM @ 1.65

HT ON
Speedstep and C1E Disabled

The others like IOH etc are on auto.

I just cant seem to go higher than 3.6. My temps are fine (no higher than 65) as I'm on water.

Hope somone can weave their magic and help me get it up, even 3.8 would be better.!

Will it eventually kill my cpu pushing it to 4ghz?

Thanks,

RoEy

[Leeghoofd]

Drop down to 19 multiplier and up to 190 Bclock. Set Uncore initially at twice the ram speed, set QPI to it lowest value or AUTO. Even multies are harder to get stable...and require far more volts

[RoEy]

Drop down to 19 multiplier and up to 190 Bclock. Set Uncore initially at twice the ram speed, set QPI to it lowest value or AUTO. Even multies are harder to get stable...and require far more volts

If that works you are a genius!

I'll report back mate.

What sort of vcore and vtt am I looking at then?

RoEy

[PalmeAsus]

ppl with 2000 mhz ram stable . what qpi volt are you using ? what have you set and what does bios read ?

regards

[Leeghoofd]

@ROEY All depends on ya CPU mate, I wouldn't go over 1.35 QPI volts for 200Bclock and 1600mhz ram speeds.
Vcore depends a lot on ya CPU and the cooling.
Try relaxing the Back to Back CAS delay setting to 6 instead of AUTO.

@PalmeAsus : QPI 1.5 here set, Bios reads 1.49. But I don't use that for daily usage, I'm using 1600MhzC7 to relax the uncore on the CPU. For 2000mhz I use B2B Cas Delay 10, 1600MhzC7 it's B2B at 6

[RoEy]

I can now get to 3.7 thanks to 19 multi and im at 1.336 vcore and 1.33 vtt.

Can I lower multi to 17 and increase bclk to 225 to get 3.825?

Or 21 x 180?

How many volts can i put through vcore that is considered 24/7 safe?

Whats the max I can put through vtt and is considered 24/7 safe, I heard it was 1.4?

Should I be bumping anything else? lol that sounds so wrong.

Temps are fine, cpu reaches 65 after max itb stress.

RoEy

[RoEy]

Anyone?

RoEy

[Leeghoofd]

Try 200 block, ram at 1600Mhz, uncore at 3200mhz and QPI link at lowest value... just add more Vcore... if ya cooling can handle it 1.4 is no biggie. Just try 1.375 first. Also you are stressing with IBT, which pushes ya CPU far further then any program does (requiring also more Vcore )

[RoEy]

Have you got messenger m8? If so could you add me,

lennon_legend@hotmail.com

just incase I need to ask you some more about it, if thats ok?

I'm up till 2am tonight.

thanks again,

RoEy

[Relic27777]

I have a i920 C0 and I've been trying to get 4.2ghz stable and it seems about 95% stable but about every 2 months I get a freeze/BSOD. running bios 1406 (upgarding to 1502 right now), and here are my voltages all taken from Everest:
vcore = 1.42-1.44
QPI = 1.35-1.36
DIMM: 1.65

All other voltages are set on auto in the bios and I'm running my corsair dominators @ 1603mhz @ 9-9-9-20 1T. I have set QPI link and uncore to lowest settings. bclk is 200 multiplier is 21
Any advice?

[seba84_2005]

I have a problem..... my memory is:
Corsair Dominator 3x2GB 1600MHz CL8 1.65v on stock.

And sometimes I have random errors..... "memory mangament" etc.
in the photo are the memory settings in my BIOS



Is there something set wrong?