Live MB OC Report :: ASUS Rampage Extreme

[Alien Grey]

You've played with this 0002 bios, can you shed any light on the 133 mode question??

We've got our own test BIOS to play with today and the Special 133 Mode isn't available in our test BIOS. The revision of our test BIOS is 0001 so I guess it would have been 0002 if it had the Special 133 Mode available.

I think that ASUS already knew that there's something wrong with it and if they didn't I already told them that it doesn't seem to work. I'll see if they have anything to say about it or make a new test BIOS that fixes the issue.


I think that everyone already knows that the old download link doesn't work anymore because I removed the BIOS but some of you already have the new download link so I would appreciate it if you share it with it eachother an give the link in a PM to who wants it for testing. I just don't want it to be available just yet for everyone so I won't post the link here and I hope you understand this and do this too.

[Leeghoofd]

good luck man, so Asus doesn't suck that much then :p

[slaske6]

this is my max to 1m SuperPi on dual core, with bios 1201.
ON quad is the max 538 fsb.
MAX 32m Superpi on quad is 528 fsb
nb on air

Slaske6

[Don_Dan]

Thanks cheapseats!

Today I tried to make a score for the 32M low clock challenge, but I failed...



Afterwards I flashed to BIOS 0002 ( btw thanks to the guys sending me the link ), flashing worked without a problem, but when I typed in the 32M clocks that were entirely stable in BIOS 1202, I got "Overclocking Failed", no matter if Special 133 Mode was enabled or disabled.
Having the possibility to control tREF is nice, but adding Special 133 Mode was not a good idea.

[CryptiK]

this is my max to 1m SuperPi on dual core, with bios 1201.
ON quad is the max 538 fsb.
MAX 32m Superpi on quad is 528 fsb
nb on air

Slaske6

Wow, 666 FSB Was than on DICE/LN2?

Thanks cheapseats!

Today I tried to make a score for the 32M low clock challenge, but I failed...

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/550...dr31900cl7.jpg

Afterwards I flashed to BIOS 0002 ( btw thanks to the guys sending me the link ), flashing worked without a problem, but when I typed in the 32M clocks that were entirely stable in BIOS 1202, I got "Overclocking Failed", no matter if Special 133 Mode was enabled or disabled.
Having the possibility to control tREF is nice, but adding Special 133 Mode was not a good idea.

Keep at it mate, that was a very nice run. Good ram too, mine won't do tRFC 48 at that speed. Try that run again with a higher tREF (change in windows with memset) -will shave a bit more off.

[Alien Grey]

Well, I have tried a lot of diferent things:

-Rising FSB up to 467
-Relaxing memory timmings
-Rising voltages
-Changing from 1N to 2N
-And I have tried with all posible straps and with different memory dividers.

Conclusion? WTF is "Special 133 mode" xD it doesn't work anyway!

Thanks cheapseats!

Today I tried to make a score for the 32M low clock challenge, but I failed...

Afterwards I flashed to BIOS 0002 ( btw thanks to the guys sending me the link ), flashing worked without a problem, but when I typed in the 32M clocks that were entirely stable in BIOS 1202, I got "Overclocking Failed", no matter if Special 133 Mode was enabled or disabled.
Having the possibility to control tREF is nice, but adding Special 133 Mode was not a good idea.

Hit F1 to enter BIOS Setup and then F10 to save it again.

I don't what exactly is going on but if I change the tREF timing in the BIOS, I also get sometimes the "Overclocking Failed" message. Trying the above seems to reset it and then it posts and seems to be working.

[Zeus]

Hey Daniel, try using the highest value for Refreshing Period (tREF), kill as many processes as possible, set explorer to low priority and SuperPi to high prio, run 2x 512k before each run and eh... don't give up!

It's been too long since i participated in the LCC, i forgot them tweaks.

[Don_Dan]

Keep at it mate, that was a very nice run. Good ram too, mine won't do tRFC 48 at that speed. Try that run again with a higher tREF (change in windows with memset) -will shave a bit more off.

Thanks mate!

The RAM is decent, I just wish it could run a bit tighter tRAS.
Thanks for the tip, I'll run a higher tREF next time, didn't know that.

Hey Daniel, try using the highest value for Refreshing Period (tREF), kill as many processes as possible, set explorer to low priority and SuperPi to high prio, run 2x 512k before each run and eh... don't give up!

It's been too long since i participated in the LCC, i forgot them tweaks.

Hehe Eugene, I'm doing all that already.

Thanks for the hint about tREF though, didn't know that.
Using BIOS 0403 like the other guys in the LCC should help as well, at least that's what I'm hoping.


No more testing right now unfortunately, I'm back at university again and all my overclocking gear is at my parents' house.

[BustaH]

can someone send me this bios in pm please, BIOS 0002 thank you.

[Rafa91]

can someone send me this bios in pm please, BIOS 0002 thank you.

Send me your email via PM.

[CryptiK]

Just doing some FSB testing. Took the CPU somewhat out of the equation by putting it on DICE. It's still not a great CPU (max SPI32M is 630 FSB, max Everest 640 FSB) but now I have a better idea of what the board can do for when I get my better chip.

SPI32M | 625 FSB | PL9 | CT Mod | 1.56 vNB | DDR3-2000 MHz | 8-7-6-20 1T tRFC 88 @ 2.15v




Everest | 625 FSB | PL9 | CT Mod | 1.56 vNB | DDR3-2000 MHz | 8-7-6-20 1T tRFC 88 @ 2.15v




SPI32M | 630 FSB | PL10 | CT Mod | 1.56 vNB | DDR3-2016 MHz | 8-7-6-20 1T tRFC 88 @ 2.15v




Everest | 630 FSB | PL10 | CT Mod | 1.56 vNB | DDR3-2016 MHz | 8-7-6-20 1T tRFC 88 @ 2.15v




Everest | 640 FSB | PL10 | CT Mod | 1.56 vNB | DDR3-2048 MHz | 8-7-6-20 1T tRFC 88 @ 2.15v

[Leeghoofd]

Nice work, sadly when upping the CPU speed things will get ugly :p

[CryptiK]

Oh absolutely, I'm under no illusions there. This CPU won't do 6.3 2D even on LN2 I suspect, it could only do 5.8GHz on DICE. I was purely testing the board, and I should have a much better CPU in the next couple of weeks.

[systemviper]

Just got my REX today and have a bunch of chips to run on it.

Loading my os and doing tweeks before i go SS

my first chip will be the E6400 to see what the board can do, also i will be reading this thread....
anyone still active with the REX?

[Rafa91]

Mine stop working last week without reason... I have sent it to RMA

[zsamz_]

Just got my REX today and have a bunch of chips to run on it.

Loading my os and doing tweeks before i go SS

my first chip will be the E6400 to see what the board can do, also i will be reading this thread....
anyone still active with the REX?

as long as you got hypers d9 or new powerchips you gonna have crazy fun

[Leeghoofd]

+1 Zsams baby, even though my board prefers the old DGTR's for 630FSB action...

[CryptiK]

There's still a few of us still active with this board, but pretty much just benchers, not 24/7.

[chayden78613]

Anyone still have a copy of that 0002 bios they would like to share?

[Splave]

what is CT mod?

[CMETAHbl4]

+1.

[CryptiK]

CT mod = clock twister moderate

[JohnZS]

I am about to get hold of one of these as a replacement for a bug ridden ASUS P5E3. (poorly designed board essentially X38 put onto a P35 board without an EPS 12V 8 pin connector)...

2 Questions.

1) How good is this board with 8GB? I remember when it first came out people had issues with RAM compatibility, but I recall since BIOS 0801 onwards ASUS have managed to improve the memory compatibility..
2) How good is this board with a QX9650 on air (Xigmatek S1284EE with Crossbow backplate (has a hole for the Fujitsu chip)) ?

Ideally (and yes this might to too difficult). I would like to run between 3.4-3.6Ghz @ 1600FSB and (if possible) 8GB @ 1600Mhz CL8/9

The RAM I have is a later revision of the OCZ PC3-12800EB RAM (8GB worth).

I have already prepared my USB stick with the 1301 BIOS to flash to the board

Thanks for your advice in advance guys.

John

[CryptiK]

8GB not sure, 4GB starts to load it up pretty hard, and I had trouble with 460 FSB+ stability with higher (DDR3-1500MHz +) ram speeds with my Q9650 and 2 x 2GB sticks. However if you go for 400 FSB perhaps you could get 8GB stable at DDR3-1600 MHz. It's a brilliant board though, and should be much better than what it replaced.

[Leeghoofd]

Asus won't repair my board, they found LN2 traces on the PCB :p

My 2nd REX I have here is a dud;, works fine till 500FSB with high ram clocks. Once I go over 500FSB I need to keep ram clocks sub 1600