UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[Mydog]

any 6 core 32nm????????????

i7-980x hexacore(32nm) are supported from bios 1802

[SwIeRsZcZ]

Hi mates ! Which BIOS would you NOW prefer for RIIE ?? Now I am on 1639 but have a problem to pass 207x21 (on my i920 D0) . 207BCLK is rock stable but when I rise to 208-210 system is unstable and hangs. (no blue screen) I need to reset manually... Any ideas ? Try the newest Bios ?

Here is my bios template settings:

CPU Ratio setting - 21
CPU Turbo Power Limit - Disabled
BCLK Frequency : 207
PCIE Frequency : 100
DRAM Frequency : 1659MHz
UCLK Frequency : Auto
QPI Link Data Rate : Auto

CPU Voltage - 1.38750
CPU PLL voltage - 1.81592
QPI-Dram voltage - 1.28750

IOH voltage - 1.11341
IOH PCIE voltage - 1.51106
ICH voltage- 1.11341
ICH PCIE voltage - 1.51106

DRAM Bus voltage - 1.65681

CPU configuration
CPU Ratio Setting : 21
C1E Support - Disabled
Hardware prefetcher - Enabled
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - Enabled
Intel Virtualization Tech - Disabled
CPU TM Function - Disabled
Execute Disabled bit - Disabled
Intel HT Technology - Enabled
Active Processor Cores - All
A20M - Disabled
Intel Speedstep Tech - Disabled
Intel C-STATE tech - Disabled

Load-line calibration - Auto
CPU differential amplitude - Auto
Extreme OV - Disabled

CPU spread spectrum - Disabled
PCIE spectrum - Disabled
CPU clock skew - Auto
IOH clock skew - Auto

[JoeBar]

1720 cas6 and 2050 cas8 so far and i havent pushed vdim over1.65 or pushed qpi over 1.42
not mush time to play but lookin great so far

Descent clocks. What cpu are u using? I'm wondering especially for the 2050mhz clocks?

[zsamz_]

Descent clocks. What cpu are u using? I'm wondering especially for the 2050mhz clocks?

my 920
man clockin good hypers is
i have 2 sets of hyperx with hypers and they not even close to these ocz reapers with hypers

on another note i took off nb heatsink and put on an enzotech sb copper heatsink with mini fan and my nb temps dropped by 10-13c glad to see it @ 37c now

[JoeBar]

And u're running stable @ 205mhz fsb with 10x multi...?

[zsamz_]

Are u below 200mhz fsb?

you will never catch me below 200blk
n on 775 you wont catch me below 500fsb
i reduced my overclock to 202x21 for the supercomputer thing

[JoeBar]

Reverted my question...

[zsamz_]

And u're running stable @ 205mhz fsb with 10x multi...?

i wouldnt bother with 10x lol

[xpower]

@ SwIe
bclk is not dependent on bios but your board and chipset.

[CryptiK]

1720 cas6 and 2050 cas8 so far and i havent pushed vdim over1.65 or pushed qpi over 1.42
not mush time to play but lookin great so far

Nice, SPI32M stable?

Anyone has issues with vDROOP on the Rampage II extreme board? Both on the QPI and the DRAM, if i set to 1.65 it usually runs at 1.644.... =(, now i force it to 1.66 and guess what 1.65, and my pc is running snappier than ever. 1504 bios.

Droop is worse on software than reality.

I measure Vtt at the CPU socket, and got 1.21v idle / 1.19v load. Vdimm there was no droop at all under load and voltage was almost exactly what was set in BIOS. Short answer, the software is wrong.

See below:

On another topic, I did some Vcore, Vtt and Vdimm measuring behind the CPU socket to get an idea of real voltages with LLC enabled since it was bugging me how much it seemed to over-volt on load.
I don't use LLC normally, but when benching it helps control things a little more accurately. I was also curious about Vdimm so I measured it directly at the Dimm slots.

CPU Vcore

LLC On

BIOS Set = 1.28750v

Idle:

CPU-Z = 1.280v
Everest = 1.270 - 1.277v
DMM = 1.29v

Load:

CPU-Z = 1.280v
Everest = 1.316 - 1.323v
DMM = 1.30 - 1.31v

Vtt

BIOS Set = 1.2750v
Everest = 1.224v (idle) / 1.197v (load)
DMM = 1.21v (idle) / 1.18 - 1.19v (load)

Vdimm

BIOS Set = 1.577v
Everest = 1.568v (idle) / 1.548v (load)
DMM = 1.58v (idle & load)

Seems the board actually does increase vcore by 0.02v under load when LLC is enabled. This is not good behaviour, it should not change at all, or ideally, droop around 0.01 - 0.02v.
Gigabyte implement a 2 step LLC system where you can have intel spec droop (LLC off), moderate droop (level 1) and slight/no droop (level 2). This is a much better system IMO and Asus would do well to
use a similar system. The vcore should certainly not increase under load.

Vtt is well below BIOS set voltage, idle and load is slightly lower than everest states.

Vdimm is pretty much what you set in BIOS, which is higher than everest reports and does not change from idle to load (I tried this at a few Vdimm settings).

[zsamz_]

Nice, SPI32M stable?

never ran SPI32M
but i did 2 full passes of memtest
had em 24/7 cas6 1720mhz i'm sure they got alot more to give
they restin now usin the trident 2k bbse set
once the supercomputer thing is over i'll be able to push
i got my loop in finally lol
doin wgc @ 4.2 most i hit is 62c ambient 23c

[SwIeRsZcZ]

What ICH / IOH voltages do u need to get 210x21 = 4.4GHz ?? Do u increase PCI-e frequency ?

[CryptiK]

ICH stock, IOH 1.15 BIOS set should be fine.

[DEFLORATOR]

bios 1903
http://www.uploadarea.de/files/q8gsu...klsa7zqycl.zip
password: asusbetabios
Didn't tried yet!

[El_Lute]

Running at 1903 by air cooling

[PytonOrm]

just updated to bios 1903 to and it´s strong bios.... booting in to win 7 with 205 bclk on my extreme 975 easy...
pci-e at 115mhz tested just 219 bclk to np there.

[El_Lute]

pci-e at 115mhz

[CryptiK]

Not sure about BIOS 1903, it's not even on Asus' ftp yet.

[zsamz_]

Not sure about BIOS 1903, it's not even on Asus' ftp yet.

i'm still on 1504 should i upgrade to any newer bios?

[CryptiK]

Not sure mate, I'm on 1802 with no benefits over 1504. Once 1903 is on their ftp or main site I'll give it a go but not sure what gains to expect unless they made the changes I requested which I doubt.

[zsamz_]

Not sure mate, I'm on 1802 with no benefits over 1504. Once 1903 is on their ftp or main site I'll give it a go but not sure what gains to expect unless they made the changes I requested which I doubt.

with the rexIII commin out i doubt we will see much

[SwIeRsZcZ]

Anyone know what PCI-E is max safe for 24/7 ?

[joshua7]

Partly off as board is a GENE, but any idea what to do when:
- flashed a pcie card - HD5770, it resulted in card's death, no signal after reboot
- put in an old pci card to reflash the HD5770, but whenever both cards are in, the system always tries to use the pci-e, looking for signal, which it does not find ofc and the system won't boot. Pci only is OK. Tried various settings in the BIOS wihch may help, but no luck. I see no option in bios where I could set anything regarding init. display for example. Do you, Rampage owners, have anything?
Thanks!

[Shadowthor]

Does anybody have one usb header (on the mb) not working? I was wondering if it is a bios issue or hardware defect considering it was all working till now.

[ElAguila]

Is there a trick to getting the ide controller working on this mobo? I plugged a drive that I wanted to pull data from and move it over to my sata drive. I didn't see anything in the bios about enabling the ide controller. I only saw settings for the sata. Is it hidden at the bottom of one of the screens or is there a jumper on the mobo? The drive works in another system. I plug into this sytem and it is not even detected in the bios.