ASUS RAMPAGE II GENE (Retail) : ROG. X58 m-ATX preview

[RejZoR]

That's a sexy NB heatsink change.
I'm confused about the X-Fi thing though. Specs say it's an AD2000B and not a Creative X-Fi based chip? Am I missing something here?

It's using a software version of X-Fi. The audio chip is indeed from Analog Devices AD2000B, but the software on top of it is from Creative Labs, providing EAX 4.0, Crystalizer and CMSS-3D functionality. All these features are run on CPU and not X-Fi chip. We can directly compare this to X-F Xtreme Audio soundcard. It's the same thing really. It's not great but in general far better than most of integrated soundcards. You can also use default BlackHawk panel that has few nice effects to boost sound clarity or bass in a similar way as Crystalizer.

This board is making for HTPC, it's so small to compare to big brother 2 extreme, and also cheaper alot.

Small and cheaper, but from what i hear no less powerful than it's bigger sister when it comes to overclocking.

[RejZoR]

Why i can't update my BIOS. When i try to update it through EZ Update in BIOS it says "Boot block invalid" and that's it.
I've downloaded it from ASUS page, the 1033 update. And i just can't update it. Wtf!?

[Mjhieu]

I do agree with you, but how I put a tiny board into a big case as my raven rv01. . It's look so ridiculous

Small and cheaper, but from what i hear no less powerful than it's bigger sister when it comes to overclocking.

[Lu(ky]

Hey guys I had a problem with my system where it was not starting. I thought it was one of my 4890 cards was dead and it turned out it was not the cards. So I thought it was the motherboard PCI slot went out and I was tearing apart my DD Tech Station to RMA the board and I found that the problem was in the main 24-pin connector had a surge it looks like. It melted one of the pins from my Corsair HX 1000 PSU pictures show where it melted. My question is was this a motherboard problem or was it a PSU problem? I can fix the PSU and replace the 4-pin attachment and put it back together but not sure where to start. Some of the PSU pin got burned into motherboard slot, so I assume the board is a RMA there.

Thanks

[Arthur]

Today finally went to the shop and grabbed this badass fan





The good of using this fan on the Gene is that considering that the mb is MATX the fan almost cover the entire board

Check my temps idle in windows
Cpu is a C0 cooled by the good old 1st tuniq with stock fan
Default nb e sb coolers



I've got a Noctua U6 but dunno if i needed it in this case

Can you tell me what was exactly your ambient temp (I mean room temp) at that time. MB and CPU temps are great with stock fan and that fan.

Thanks,
Arthur

[RejZoR]

I guess the last BIOS update 1033 was really messed up, thank god i haven't forced it in any way. Tried latest 1104 BISO and it flashed it without any problems.
Works fine and i also noticed few small but nice changes in BIOS. Slightly better designed menus and stuff.

[Lu(ky]

Will this board run a Intel Xeon W3520? Also have a new board replacement cross shipping to me as we speak from problem above.

Thanks

[Copenhagen69]

a couple questions ...

everyone seems to be talking about BIOS and which one is best ... have we come to a conclusion as to which one, at this time, is the best?

2nd question ... where are you all ordering your Noctua U6 from? i can only find it at 2 places ... moddersmart and xoxide ... are you all getting it anywhere else? just wondering because im trying to get a fuzion v2 1366 bracket also and would like to get them shipped together so i dont have to pay outrageous shipping prices for each on their own ..

[Copenhagen69]

laggy double post delete this ...

[aln688]

Hey guys I had a problem with my system where it was not starting. I thought it was one of my 4890 cards was dead and it turned out it was not the cards. So I thought it was the motherboard PCI slot went out and I was tearing apart my DD Tech Station to RMA the board and I found that the problem was in the main 24-pin connector had a surge it looks like. It melted one of the pins from my Corsair HX 1000 PSU pictures show where it melted. My question is was this a motherboard problem or was it a PSU problem? I can fix the PSU and replace the 4-pin attachment and put it back together but not sure where to start. Some of the PSU pin got burned into motherboard slot, so I assume the board is a RMA there.

Thanks

That's difficult problem to analyze. At first thought it could be the PSU over-loading, but on the other hand it could have been the motherboard drawing too much power? I'm unsure. Good luck with the new board though, I've never saw that type of problem before.

a couple questions ...

everyone seems to be talking about BIOS and which one is best ... have we come to a conclusion as to which one, at this time, is the best?

2nd question ... where are you all ordering your Noctua U6 from? i can only find it at 2 places ... moddersmart and xoxide ... are you all getting it anywhere else? just wondering because im trying to get a fuzion v2 1366 bracket also and would like to get them shipped together so i dont have to pay outrageous shipping prices for each on their own ..

Well so far 0904 is stable and solid for me, running at 4.2 GHz here. I did try 1033 and it was a disaster, so I managed to downgrade to 0904. I notice 1104 is out but I haven't tried it. I'll be scanning the forums for feedback on this BIOS revision before I take the plunge.

[LightSpeed]

Can anyone confirm whether the Xigmatek Porter fits the GENE, and if anyone has it installed, care to post some pics?

The U6 doesnt seem to be available in the UK

[Hannibal Lecter]

Yes it fits perfectly:


In this picture you can see how to fix the other side:


In terms of performance with some airflow you can expect about 10C-13C better temperature. In my case from 62C to 49C as reported by the LCD poster.

Sorry about the bad picture quality.

[Copenhagen69]

does anyone know if the thermalright HR-05 series will fit on this board?

[Envy]

here is my RII Gene Rev.2 bios 0904 pretty solid

[Lu(ky]

Well update for me I got a Advanced RMA through Asus and got a new board. And my RMAed Corsair came back with a NEW in box HX1000 psu. LOL I sent in the PSU only and got back this. WOW... I plan on trying new 1104 bios because I keep getting errors and missing OS not reading my Intel SSD G2 drive. 1033 seems like a flaky BIOS 0904 was rock solid for me, the only reason why I tried it was I using my Kingston Hypers X but found out I had bad memory.. So I will try 1104, if bad I will go back to 0904..

[Copenhagen69]

does anyone know if the thermalright HR-05 series will fit on this board?

anyone used it ... or are you all going with the N-U6?

[Nuckin_Futs]

I was reffering to ThermalRight HR-05 SLI/IFX, I missed the note about the U-6. my bad

Yes it does both versions fit, just depends on how big your CPU cooler is and the possitioning as well as the card in 2nd PCIE slot. both SLI versions fit great under 2nd PCIE card as well as under the big ThermalRight Ultra 120's but is limited to fan sized used and if using PCIE 1 slot with the SLI version. standard versions fir if rotating large cooler (Ultra 120) with fans in-line. I myself use the HR-05 SLI/IFX on the SB and a Nexus (like regular HR-05) on NB but turned Ultra 120 90 degrees right.

I hope this helps

[joger]

Anyone here gone past ~220bclck with a R2G? Mine can post at 21*220, but it doesn't even get to desktop before a BSOD occurs. Booting into Windows at a lower bclck is no help either, as TurboV can't change it past exactly 217.8.

Higher voltages/lower multipliers are no help either.

[Copenhagen69]

Yes it does both versions fit, just depends on how big your CPU cooler is and the possitioning as well as the card in 2nd PCIE slot. both SLI versions fit great under 2nd PCIE card as well as under the big ThermalRight Ultra 120's but is limited to fan sized used and if using PCIE 1 slot with the SLI version. standard versions fir if rotating large cooler (Ultra 120) with fans in-line. I myself use the HR-05 SLI/IFX on the SB and a Nexus (like regular HR-05) on NB but turned Ultra 120 90 degrees right.

I hope this helps

yes it does very much so!!! ty

i was thinking of using the HR-05 IFX for the NB since it is straight up ... i am water cooling my system so i should have plenty of room (to the CPU side) i would think

[Nuckin_Futs]

yes it does very much so!!! ty

i was thinking of using the HR-05 IFX for the NB since it is straight up ... i am water cooling my system so i should have plenty of room (to the CPU side) i would think

Oh yes, for that for sure, it fits great and you can fit a nice size quiet 80mm fan on either side you pick.

[Copenhagen69]

Oh yes, for that for sure, it fits great and you can fit a nice size quiet 80mm fan on either side you pick.

awesome! thanks for the info

also will i need something like ...

http://www.jab-tech.com/Thermalright...3-pr-4034.html
for the top left section?

[Nuckin_Futs]

Any of you experiencing issues with S3 failure at certain bclk and DRAM settings closer DDR1600 and bclk of 200? S4 will work sometimes. It enters S3 sleep but will either "lock" at resume or if it does make it to Windows the keyboard wil not be active but USB mouse might sometimes. But ;ately it is entering either S3 or S4 it fails to enter and returns to log in. Here the only changes I made during my 4GHz stabilitytesting was upping NB/SB cores to 1.176v and fixing uclk to 3200 (for use @ DDR1600)

[Nanometer]

Any of you experiencing issues with S3 failure at certain bclk and DRAM settings closer DDR1600 and bclk of 200? S4 will work sometimes. It enters S3 sleep but will either "lock" at resume or if it does make it to Windows the keyboard wil not be active but USB mouse might sometimes. But ;ately it is entering either S3 or S4 it fails to enter and returns to log in. Here the only changes I made during my 4GHz stabilitytesting was upping NB/SB cores to 1.176v and fixing uclk to 3200 (for use @ DDR1600)

There's a thread about the cold boot issue, enable video s3 fixes it. Or is it disabling it... basically change the default value to the other value... I haven't had one cold boot issue since.

[Nuckin_Futs]

There's a thread about the cold boot issue, enable video s3 fixes it. Or is it disabling it... basically change the default value to the other value... I haven't had one cold boot issue since.

Now it enters and resumes but the issues is it will not stay in eithe S3/S4 modes anymore, it cycles right back up and to log in. I have to use shut down now which is a pain for daily use and in order to get it sort of working I have to go back to some near stock settings and only move RAM bk up.

[Philwong]

There's a thread about the cold boot issue, enable video s3 fixes it. Or is it disabling it... basically change the default value to the other value... I haven't had one cold boot issue since.

I tried the recommended setting, but still facing the cold boot problem.

Phil